IDT CORPORATION (NYSE:IDT) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(e) On January 4, 2017, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of IDT Corporation (the “Registrant”) approved a compensatory arrangement with Howard S. Jonas, the Registrant’s Chairman of the Board. to this arrangement, the Registrant will sell to Howard Jonas, for a purchase price of $1 million, ten percent (10%) of the Registrant’s, direct and indirect, interest and rights (which include a convertible promissory note, a warrant and certain contractual rights) in Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which is a clinical stage, oncology-focused pharmaceutical company committed to the development and commercialization of therapies targeting cancer metabolism that exploit the metabolic differences between normal cells and cancer cells. The $1 million purchase price represents the same price paid by the Registrant for the interests being sold to Mr. Jonas. 

About IDT CORPORATION (NYSE:IDT)

IDT Corporation is a holding company with operations primarily in the telecommunications and payment industries. The Company’s segments include Telecom Platform Services, Consumer Phone Services and All Other. The Company’s Telecom Platform Services segment provides retail telecommunications and payment offerings, as well as wholesale international long distance traffic termination. The Telecom Platform Services segment markets and distributes multiple communications and payment services across four businesses: Retail Communications, Wholesale Carrier Services, Payment Services and Hosted Platform Solutions. The Company’s Consumer Phone Services segment provides consumer local and long distance services in certain states of the United States. The Telecom Platform Services and Consumer Phone Services segments comprise the Company’s IDT Telecom division. The All Other segment includes its real estate holdings and other smaller businesses.

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IDT CORPORATION (NYSE:IDT) closed its last trading session up +0.61 at 19.85 with 96,429 shares trading hands.