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Companies Supporting the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Land
Companies Supporting the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Land October, 2009 This information is a gift from Hoder Investment Research (HIR). HIR wishes to thank the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) in Israel for information used in this report. Their web site is www.whoprofits.org. HIR encourages donations to their work. Items in blue were published by the New England United Methodist Divestment Task Force (www.neumc.org/divest) and have been updated here. Questions or suggestions may be directed to [email protected]. Neither Hoder Investment Research nor the Interfaith Peace Initiative assumes any legal responsibility for the accuracy of the material included in this report or for actions based thereon. Readers should go directly to the sources listed to learn more about the companies and assess their role in the occupation. 1. AFRICA ISRAEL INVESTMENTS LTD. (TLV:AFIL) (TLV:AFPR) (TLV:AFHS) builds settler housing in multiple settlements through its subsidiary construction firm, Danya Cebus. The company also owns the Israeli franchise of the real estate agency Anglo Saxon, which has a branch in the settlement of Ma'ale Edomim and offers apartments and houses in many settlements in the Occupied Territories. The company owns 26% of Alon Group, which is also involved with the settlements (see below). Note: Africa Israel Chairman and founder Lev Leviev and his brother are responsible for the settlements of Zufim (Tsufim) and Zufim North on land belonging to the village of Jayyous in the northern West Bank. They are being built by a Leviev company called Leader Management & Development. The village‘s water wells, greenhouses, and most of its agricultural land have been confiscated for these settlements. -
City Research Online
City Research Online City, University of London Institutional Repository Citation: Gottfried, Shelly (2015). The ascent of oligarchy: the case of Israel. (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City University London) This is the accepted version of the paper. This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/14708/ Link to published version: Copyright: City Research Online aims to make research outputs of City, University of London available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the author(s) and/or copyright holders. URLs from City Research Online may be freely distributed and linked to. Reuse: Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. City Research Online: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/ [email protected] To my beloved parents, Maya and Ran THE ASCENT OF OLIGARCHY: THE CASE OF ISRAEL SHELLY GOTTFRIED A dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy City University London Department of International Politics December 2015 © 2015 Shelly Gottfried All Rights Reserved 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES…………………………………………………….…….....…4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS………………………………………………………………….…..…6 ABSTRACT………………………………………………………………………...………….……7 -
The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem
Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ) P.O Box 860, Caritas Street – Bethlehem, Phone: (+972) 2 2741889, Fax: (+972) 2 2776966. [email protected] | http://www.arij.org Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem Report on the Israeli Colonization Activities in the West Bank & the Gaza Strip Volume 186 , January 2014 Issue http://www.arij.org Bethlehem • Clashes erupted between Palestinians and the Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) in Ayda refugee camp, north of Bethlehem city. The IOA fired rubber bullets, teargas and stun grenades, causing the injury of Sami Isma’il Aliyan (14 years) in his leg. (PNN 1 January 2013) • Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) invaded Al-Khader village, west of Bethlehem city. The IOA erected a military checkpoint in the village, stopped and searched Palestinian vehicles and ID cards. The IOA detained a number of Palestinian school students. (Mawal 2 January 2014) • Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) attacked the weekly non-violent protest against the Segregation wall and settlements in Al-Masara village, south of Bethlehem city. (NBPRS 3 January 2014) • Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) invaded and searched areas in Ayda refugee camp, north of Bethlehem city. (RB2000 4 January 2014) • Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) prevented Palestinians from reaching to their land in Job Ad-Dib area, east of Bethlehem city. (Wattan 7 January 2014) • Dozens of Palestinian students suffered gas inhalation after the Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) fired rubber bullets, teargas and stun grenades in Al-Khader village, west of Bethlehem city. (Al-Quds 7 January 2014) • Clashes erupted between Palestinians and the Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) in At-Tal area in Al-Khader village, west of Bethlehem city. -
About Feelings
About Feelings NATAL,Issue no. 1 0 , l y a r 5 7 6 8 , M a y 2 0 0 8 Colonel (Res.) Dr. Itamar Barnea, Special Interview: The journey of a former pilot and POW who became a psychologist Dr. Rony Berger: "Sderot populates my soul" Dr. Udi Lebel: "It takes public courage to admit that trauma is the lot of an entire society" Udit Sheffer and Hadassah Ashdot facilitate a support group for women married to traumatized men Saar Uziely: Reaching out to released combat soldiers ±∞ years of NATAL From the Chairperson and Founder Judith Yovel Recanati This edition of the NATAL magazine "About When NATAL began, we thought it would Feelings" is being published as NATAL is marking primarily serve victims of the past but reality its 10 year anniversary and Israel is celebrating gave us a rude awakening. With the beginning its 60th anniversary. In the magazine, you will of the Second Intifada followed by the Second find articles presenting personal experiences Lebanon War, NATAL became an active center along with a collective perspective on Israeli that receives requests from victims of terrorism society. The interview with Dr. Itamar Barnea and war, as well as their friends and family, on a is especially moving as he was a fighter pilot in daily basis. They have been joined by residents the Yom Kippur War, who was downed and taken of Sderot and now, to our dismay, residents of captive by the Syrians on the last day of fighting. Ashkelon, communities surrounding the Gaza Judith Yovel Recanati He has served as NATAL’s chief psychologist Strip and the western Negev for whom Qassam since the organization was established and with rockets are part of their daily life. -
Discount Investment Corp
above-listed categories of complicity: Discount z Cellcom (1,2,3) (See pp.17-18.) Investment z Property & Building Corp. (1,4) z Koor Industries (4) Corp. z Makhteshim Agan Ind. (4) z Maxima Air-Separation (4) Canada Pension Plan z Shufersal (4) DIC’s links to the world 2011 Investment of Israel’s military and intel- ligence are revealed not only in the companies it controls, $1 million but in the company it keeps. Nochi Dankner, DIC’s chair- ne of Israel’s largest holding “Israeli Spy Companies,” pp.43-47.) man and major shareholder, is a “Ma- companies, DIC was created z Ham-Let Advanced Control jor (res.) in the Israel Air Force.” And, Oin 1961 as an investment ve- Technology (60%): This leading inter- Nahum Admoni, DIC’s external direc- hicle for the Recanati family, who then national producer of instrumentation tor (1999-2004), was the chief of Isra- owned the Israel Discount Bank (IDB). valves and fittings, supplies many in- el’s secret intelligence agency, the Mos- (See table “CPP investments,” p.53.) dustrial sectors, including the military. sad, between 1982 and 1989. Admoni The IDB and other Recanati-family z Cellcom (46.8%): This company is also served as a director of Banks Ha- businesses were controlled by an um- a leading supplier of cell phone serv- poalim and Leumi Le’Israel. (See Ha- brella company called the IDB Hold- ices to Israel’s military. (See pp.17-18.) poalim pp.10-11, and Leumi, in table ing Corp. In 2002, the Recanati family z Makhteshim Agan Industries “CPP investments,” p.53.) sold these investments to a group of in- (MAI): This DIC subsidiary produces vestors led by Israeli billionaire Nochi agricultural chemicals and “additives References Danker, who now controls DIC.