Registry · AZRG.TA
Does Azrieli support Israel?
Azrieli Group
Yes — Azrieli has documented support for Israel on record, including $4,387,000 in donations. Every claim below links to its source.
Filed under: Retail & supermarket chains · Companies that support Israel
Background
Azrieli Group is an Israeli company — the country's best-known shopping-mall and office landlord, listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange — so its connection to Israel is its identity rather than a matter of foreign donations. Its wartime record is unusually well itemised for an Israeli property firm, and the split between the corporation and the family foundations matters. Azrieli Foundation Israel and Azrieli Foundation Canada committed an emergency donation of about NIS 40 million: that is the foundations' money, not the company's, and it is recorded here without an amount. The listed company's own giving is reported separately. Calcalist, reviewing the 2024 financial statements of the Tel Aviv 125 companies, put the group's 2024 donations at NIS 16 million — about $4.39 million, and 1.08% of its profit; the company's own relief page reports approximately NIS 11 million of cash and in-kind aid since the war began, and its June 2025 ESG report about NIS 19.1 million to that report's date. The itemised measures include rent and management-fee relief for tenants in October and November 2023, gift cards for families evacuated to Eilat, mall space for 27 small businesses from the affected regions, aid logistics centres in vacant properties, temporary schools, and 3,690 employee volunteering hours. The group also mounted a giant illuminated Israeli flag on the Azrieli Tower in Tel Aviv, and in June 2026 it gave a rooftop at its Tel Aviv mall to a memorial installation about the war. Unlike several other large Israeli companies on this site, Azrieli does not appear in the UN OHCHR database of businesses linked to Israeli settlements (A/HRC/60/19, 26 September 2025). Note that the company also reported strong results through the period — 99% mall occupancy in 2023 — so the aid sits alongside, not instead of, a profitable war-years business.
Azrieli Group — emergency relief (company) The Jerusalem Post — Azrieli's NIS 40 million emergency donation and support plan Azrieli Group ESG report (company PDF) OHCHR — A/HRC/60/19 settlement-business database (Azrieli not listed) Calcalist (Hebrew, 19 May 2025) — TA-125 companies’ 2024 donations
Timeline of documented support
Documented support
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donation | 2023-10-11 | — | Nonprofits and organisations assisting soldiers and families — among them the Soroka, Barzilai, Schneider, Assaf Harofeh and Hadassah hospitals, JDC, NATAL, ERAN, Latet, the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization, the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers, ZAKA, United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom (via the Azrieli Foundation Israel and Azrieli Foundation Canada) On 11 October 2023 the two Azrieli family foundations, Azrieli Foundation Israel and Azrieli Foundation Canada, announced donations totalling about NIS 40 million to nonprofits and organisations assisting soldiers and families during the Swords of Iron war; the Hebrew outlet ice named among the recipients the Soroka, Barzilai, Schneider, Assaf Harofeh and Hadassah hospitals, JDC, NATAL, ERAN, Latet, the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization, the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers, ZAKA, United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom. The Jerusalem Post described the same commitment as a donation to security forces, displaced families and others in need. That sum is the family foundations' money, not the listed company's, so this row carries no amount at all: the figure stays in this description and is no part of any donation total for Azrieli Group. The listed company's own measures, set out with its Q3 results on 27 November 2023, were a rent and management-fee reduction for mall tenants for October and November 2023, mall space allocated to displaced businesses, thousands of NIS 500 gift cards for families evacuated from the north and south to Eilat, and temporary schools in Azrieli-owned properties. Chairwoman Danna Azrieli described it as "an extensive support plan" aimed at "strengthening the economic front throughout Israel." | |
| Public statement | 2023-10 | — | — About two weeks into the war Azrieli Group mounted a giant illuminated Israeli flag on the facade of the square Azrieli Tower in Tel Aviv — 100 metres long and 40 metres wide, topped with the words "Together we will win" (יחד ננצח). Walla reported that it took about one million LED bulbs and 230 people working over five days, and that it could be seen from aircraft landing at and taking off from Israel. Danna Azrieli, chair of Azrieli Group, said at the time: "We decided to light the Azrieli Towers with a resonant message of unity and strength." The group began dismantling the display in early June 2024, eight months into the war; Walla noted that this came just after Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot left the emergency government, and the company answered that the decision had been taken weeks earlier, partly because the tower's windows needed cleaning and routine maintenance was due. Calcalist's May 2025 review of corporate giving reported the towers carrying messages such as "Together we will win" and the symbol of the hostages, and the photograph it published shows them lit with the count of the days of the war. The Jerusalem Post's photograph caption of 27 November 2023 likewise describes the Azrieli Center as illuminated in support of Israel. This is a public display by the listed company, not a donation. | |
| Donation | 2023-11 | — | Pitchon Lev, an Israeli aid organisation, for the home front and IDF soldiers The Hebrew outlet ice reported on 21 November 2023 that Azrieli Group was one of the large Israeli companies that answered an appeal by Pitchon Lev, an Israeli aid organisation, and described the group's contribution as a triple one: it called on its customers to donate toiletries and hygiene products, which the group transported to Pitchon Lev; it donated hundreds of thousands of shekels of the group's own money; and it mobilised group employees to volunteer every day at the charity's emergency packing warehouse. Pitchon Lev's chief executive Eli Cohen said the organisation had raised donations worth millions of shekels from large Israeli companies for the home front and IDF soldiers. The report gives no single figure for the group's cash gift, so no amount is recorded on this row; the company's own relief page reports its wartime aid only as an aggregate, which is recorded separately here. | One source |
| In-kind support | 2024 | — | Evacuees and displaced families, soldiers, and small businesses from the Gaza envelope and northern Israel Azrieli Group's own emergency-relief page states that since the outbreak of the Swords of Iron war it mobilised assistance and donations in cash and in kind totalling approximately NIS 11 million. The reported measures include gift cards for evacuees usable across its malls, conversion of vacant space in company properties into aid logistics centres for displaced families and soldiers, hosting 27 small businesses from conflict-affected regions in group malls, donating Azrieli.com inventory, promoting the ERAN emotional first-aid helpline at its properties, and 3,690 hours of employee volunteering in the Gaza envelope and the north — assisting farmers, distributing food and supporting local industry. The group's ESG report published in June 2025 gives a higher cumulative figure: approximately NIS 19.1 million in cash and in-kind contributions since the war began, up to that report's publication date. The two company figures do not agree with each other, and both cover the same wartime giving that the group's 2024 financial statements measure for a single year, so no amount is recorded on this row; the dollar figure on this page is the one on the 2024 donation row. This is the listed company's own aid, separate from the family foundations' NIS 40 million donation. | |
| Donation | 2024 | $4,387,000 | Evacuated families and businesses from conflict-affected areas Calcalist reviewed the 2024 financial statements of the companies in the Tel Aviv 125 index and reported that Azrieli Group donated NIS 16 million in 2024. It put that at 1.08% of the group's profit and gave the group's 2024 net profit as NIS 1.4 billion. Calcalist also described how the group gave: gift cards for evacuated families that are redeemable in the company's own malls, gift cards drawn from the inventory of its Azrieli.com site, which has since closed, and hosting businesses from conflict-affected areas in its malls — which the paper said combines economic support with added commercial traffic. The NIS 1.4 billion is the group's profit, not a donation. The NIS 16 million is about $4.39 million at the Bank of Israel official rate of 3.647 shekels per dollar on 31 December 2024, the last trading day of the year the figure covers. The group's own cumulative wartime totals — approximately NIS 11 million on its relief page and about NIS 19.1 million in its June 2025 ESG report — cover overlapping giving and are recorded on this page without an amount. | One source |
| In-kind support | 2026-06-01 | — | "We Shall Rise" memorial installation by photographer Ziv Koren and writer Noam Horev Azrieli Group hosted "We Shall Rise," a 500-square-metre immersive installation of photographs documenting events from 7 October 2023 onward — destroyed kibbutzim, wounded children, returning hostages — on the rooftop of the Azrieli Tel Aviv Mall, in partnership with photographer Ziv Koren and writer Noam Horev. CEO Danna Azrieli said the mall's central location and transport links let the group put the work in front of the widest possible public. This is provision of a venue and platform by the company, not a cash donation. | One source |
| Donations total | $4,387,000 | |||
Frequently asked questions
Did Azrieli donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
Yes. Documented donations total $4,387,000, including $4,387,000 to Evacuated families and businesses from conflict-affected areas. Each donation is listed on this page with its date and source.
How much has Azrieli given?
Documented donations total $4,387,000. The largest single recorded item is $4,387,000 to Evacuated families and businesses from conflict-affected areas (2024).
Where does this information come from?
Every record on this page links to its source — news reports, official company statements, tax filings, or government records. 9 distinct sources are cited for Azrieli. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-26
- The Jerusalem Post — Azrieli's NIS 40 million emergency donation and support plan jpost.com
- Azrieli Group — emergency relief (company) azrieligroup.com
- ice (Hebrew, 11 October 2023) ice.co.il
- Walla Money (Hebrew, 10 June 2024) finance.walla.co.il
- Calcalist (Hebrew, 19 May 2025) — TA-125 companies’ 2024 donations calcalist.co.il
- ice (Hebrew, 21 November 2023) ice.co.il
- Azrieli Group ESG report (company PDF) azrieligroup.com
- The Jerusalem Post jpost.com
- OHCHR — A/HRC/60/19 settlement-business database (Azrieli not listed) ohchr.org