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Does Dairy Queen support Israel?

Dairy Queen (International Dairy Queen, Inc.)

Owned by Berkshire Hathaway Records for the parent company are kept separately.

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We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Dairy Queen. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.

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Background

Dairy Queen is a brand of International Dairy Queen, Inc. of Bloomington, Minnesota, owned by Berkshire Hathaway under a deal agreed in October 1997 and completed in 1998 for about $585 million. No donation, in-kind aid, statement, sponsorship or partnership in support of Israel has been documented for Dairy Queen or International Dairy Queen, and the chain does not operate in Israel. Israel Hayom's May 2024 survey of big American chains missing from the Israeli market says of Dairy Queen that it has some 7,000 branches worldwide "but it too has no presence in Israel," and Israel appears in none of the brand's country lists. What is real belongs to the parent, not to the ice-cream chain: Berkshire Hathaway bought 80% of the Tefen-based Israeli toolmaker ISCAR for $4 billion in 2006 and the remaining 20% for $2.05 billion in 2013; its annual subsidiary exhibits have listed "Iscar Ltd. — Israel" ever since, and its report for the 2025 financial year states that "a large portion of [IMC's] products are manufactured in Israel" and that "IMC's operations in Israel have not been significantly impacted by the conflicts in the region." Those are Berkshire Hathaway transactions and disclosures — set out on the Berkshire Hathaway page — and not acts of Dairy Queen. Dairy Queen's appearance on informally circulated consumer boycott lists follows from that ownership chain alone, not from anything the brand itself has done.

Israel Hayom — American chains with no presence in Israel (May 2024) Wikipedia — Dairy Queen (ownership, country list) Wikipedia — Berkshire Hathaway (1997 Dairy Queen acquisition, ~$585M) Berkshire Hathaway FY2025 Form 10-K (IMC manufacturing in Israel) Wikipedia — Iscar Metalworking (2006 and 2013 Berkshire purchases)

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Did Dairy Queen donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?

No records found. We searched 10 public source types — news and official statements, nonprofit tax filings, SEC filings, and federal election records — and found no donations from Dairy Queen. The dated search log on this page shows exactly where we looked.

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Record last updated: 2026-09-24

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