This has been played out already....but in the time I have been on the forums, I have seen responses from both Morels. From what they have said in the past, Morel Isreal and Morel USA did used to be the same company. The owners of the two companies were cousins (I believe) and both used to own/run Morel Isreal. One of the cousins came here to the US with the purpose of opening/running Morel USA, which was sort of like a subsidiary of Morel Isreal and was the US distributor/importer of the Morel Isreal products (at this time, the two companies were still related). This is where their stories start to deviate from each other...but somehow they (the cousins) came to be at odds against one another, and Morel USA broke off from it's Israeli counterpart. Since they both used to be a part of the "original" Morel, they both had availability to the product designs. So, Morel USA started producing speakers also using basically those same designs and the same name; Morel. Neither could agree on who actually owned the rights to those designs and name....Morel USA claims they have the rights, Morel Isreal claims they have the rights.
I'm not going to get into which one is better than the other....but above is the general jist of how things came to be.