Item 5.01 Changes in Control of Registrant.

On April 6, 2020, the Howard S. Jonas 2017 Annuity Trust transferred 1,574,326 shares of Class A common stock of Genie Energy Ltd. (the "Company")(representing all of the issue and outstanding shares of the Class A common stock) and 3,526,282 shares of the Company's Class B common stock to trusts for the benefit of eight of Howard Jonas' children, with independent trustees, which shares were beneficially owned by Mr. Jonas, the Company's Chairman and then controlling stockholder of the Company. Following the transfer, Mr. Jonas is no longer a controlling stockholder of the Company and the Company is no longer a controlled company as defined in Section 303A of the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual.





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