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Does Delek Group support Israel?

Support documentedupdated 2026-09-26

Yes — Delek Group has documented support for Israel on record, including $5,683,000 in donations. Every claim below links to its source.

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Background

Delek Group is an Israeli holding company, so most of its link to Israel is structural rather than philanthropic. The documented substance is energy: through its 54.7%-held subsidiary NewMed Energy it is the largest partner in Leviathan, the offshore field that supplies most of Israel's electricity generation and its gas exports, and in August 2025 that partnership signed an approximately $35 billion supply agreement with Egypt running to 2040. The same field appears on our Chevron page from the operator's side, and BP's 2023 Israeli exploration licence, recorded on our BP page, was won in a consortium alongside NewMed; BP and ADNOC's 2023 offer of about $2 billion for 50% of NewMed was suspended in March 2024 and never completed. The philanthropic record we do have is domestic and contested: between 2016 and 2018 the group's publicly traded companies put NIS 21.3 million through Keren Delek, their wholly owned public-benefit donation arm, and Israel's Registrar of Corporations found that more than 85% of it went to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation and to the synagogue Yitzhak Tshuva inaugurated in the Western Wall Tunnels in December 2017, outside the fund's registered purposes; the courts refused three times to approve the donations after the fact, and a July 2024 settlement has Tshuva and an insurer paying NIS 16 million back to the company. Two attribution points matter. First, Delek Group is not Delek Israel: the fuel-station and Menta convenience business was sold to Lahav LR Real Estate and Uri Mantzur in a deal agreed in October 2020 and completed in January 2021, and it was that separate company — not Delek Group — that later took majority ownership of the Burger King Israel franchise whose soldier meal donations are recorded on our Restaurant Brands page. The sale was not a full exit, though: Who Profits and AFSC's Investigate database both document that Delek Petroleum, a wholly-owned Delek Group subsidiary, still holds about a quarter (24.75%) of Delek Israel — a minority stake, not control, but a real and sourced ongoing equity interest in a company Who Profits documents as running stations in West Bank settlements. Second, the UN OHCHR settlement-business database lists "Delek Group Ltd." itself, by that name, as entry 45 — not Delek Israel, which does not appear under its own name in that database. We found no documented wartime donation, in-kind aid or army-unit adoption by Delek Group after October 2023.

Delek Group — holdings Reuters — Leviathan's $35 billion Egypt supply deal OHCHR — A/HRC/60/19 database The Jerusalem Post — sale of 70% of Delek Israel Calcalist — Registrar of Corporations audit of the Delek donation fund (archived)

Timeline of documented support

201820202022202420262018 — Donation: Keren Delek for Science, Education and Culture (Delek Group's wholly owned donation arm) and, through it, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation and the “Sha'arei Tshuva” synagogue in the Western Wall Tunnels, JerusalemDonation20182020-10 — Acquisition: Lahav LR Real Estate and businessman Uri Mantzur (buyers of 70% of Delek Israel)Acquisition2020-102025-08 — Government contract: Egypt (gas buyers) — export from the Leviathan field, in which Delek Group's NewMed Energy is the largest partnerGovernment contract2025-082025-09 — Operations in Israel: Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East JerusalemOperations in Israel2025-092026 — Operations in Israel: Israel (natural gas production through NewMed Energy) and international energy assetsOperations in Israel20262026 — Investment / program: Delek Israel Fuel Company Ltd. (a separate, non-controlled company)Investment / program2026

Documented support

TypeDateAmountRecipientSources
Donation2018$5,683,000Keren Delek for Science, Education and Culture (Delek Group's wholly owned donation arm) and, through it, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation and the “Sha'arei Tshuva” synagogue in the Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem
Between 2016 and 2018 the publicly traded companies of the Delek Group transferred NIS 21.3 million — about $5.7 million at the Bank of Israel official rate of 3.748 shekels per dollar on 31 December 2018 — to Keren Delek for Science, Education and Culture, a public-benefit company (חל״צ) wholly owned by the listed Delek Group and acting as the group's donation arm. An in-depth audit by the Registrar of Corporations at Israel's Ministry of Justice, signed in August 2020 and obtained by Calcalist, found that more than 85% of that money was channelled to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation — the state body under the Prime Minister's Office that maintains and operates the Western Wall compound — and paid for the “Sha'arei Tshuva” synagogue in the Western Wall Tunnels in Jerusalem, which controlling shareholder Yitzhak Tshuva inaugurated on 18 December 2017 after twelve years of building work. The audit put the fund's heritage donations at NIS 5.76 million in 2016 and NIS 8.34 million in 2017, held them to be outside its registered purposes of science, culture and education, and recorded Tshuva's own contribution to the fund over those years at NIS 382,000, or 1.6% of what it raised; the fund answered that it had acted “according to the rules of proper administration”. This was the companies' money rather than the controlling shareholder's, and it did not stay approved. The Tel Aviv District Court refused three times to approve the donations retroactively, most recently on 15 July 2022, when Judge Ariel Zimmerman wrote that public-benefit companies “are not a private business” and described about NIS 21 million as having been channelled from the public companies to the building of the synagogue, the bulk of it to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation under an agreement to commemorate the donor. Under a settlement of a shareholder derivative claim filed for approval in July 2024 and reported by TheMarker, Delek Group is to be paid NIS 16 million back: NIS 8 million from Tshuva in four equal index-linked semi-annual instalments and NIS 8 million from the insurer of the defendant officers. TheMarker reported in September 2020 that the derivative motion put the financing of the synagogue at NIS 30 million.
Operations in Israel2026—Israel (natural gas production through NewMed Energy) and international energy assets
Delek Group is an Israeli holding company listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and controlled by businessman Yitzhak Tshuva. Its holdings include 54.7% of NewMed Energy (TASE: NMED), 50% of Ithaca Energy (LSE), 40% of Isracard, 61% of Mehadrin and 32% of InPlay Oil. NewMed Energy — founded in 1993 as Delek Drilling — holds 45.34% of the Leviathan reservoir off Israel's coast, alongside Chevron (39.66%, the operator) and Ratio (15%), which makes Delek Group the Israeli partner in the field that supplies most of Israel's power generation and its gas exports to Egypt and Jordan. This entry records the corporate structure; it is not a donation.
Government contract2025-08-07$35,000,000,000Egypt (gas buyers) — export from the Leviathan field, in which Delek Group's NewMed Energy is the largest partner
The Leviathan partners — NewMed Energy (45.34%), Chevron (39.66%, operator) and Ratio (15%) — signed an agreement to supply natural gas to Egypt through 2040 with a headline value of about $35 billion, reported as the largest export agreement in Israel's history. The deal is a commercial gas-supply contract signed during the war years by a partnership in which Delek Group's subsidiary holds the largest share; it is an Israeli energy export, not a donation. It is the same field and partnership recorded on our Chevron page.
Operations in Israel2025-09-26—Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights lists "Delek Group Ltd." as entry 45 in its database of business enterprises involved in activities linked to Israeli settlements (A/HRC/60/19, 26 September 2025, 158 enterprises). The activities recorded against it are (e) the provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements and (g) the use of natural resources, in particular water and land, for business purposes. This is a UN finding of "reasonable grounds to believe," recorded here with its primary source; it is not a court judgment. The listing names the holding company; separate entries in the same database cover other fuel retailers such as Dor Alon Energy in Israel (entry 48).
Acquisition2020-10-21₪525,000,000Lahav LR Real Estate and businessman Uri Mantzur (buyers of 70% of Delek Israel)
Delek Group agreed on 21 October 2020 to sell 70% of Delek Israel — its downstream fuel-station and Menta convenience-store business — to Lahav LR Real Estate and Uri Mantzur for about NIS 525 million, valuing the unit at roughly NIS 750 million; the transaction completed in January 2021. This matters for attribution: Delek Israel, which in January 2022 bought a majority of the Burger King Israel franchise, is a separate company that has not been controlled by Delek Group since that sale. Actions by Delek Israel or by Burger King Israel are not attributable to Delek Group, and vice versa.
Investment / program2026—Delek Israel Fuel Company Ltd. (a separate, non-controlled company)
The 2020–21 sale of Delek Israel was not a full exit: Who Profits' current profile of "Delek Israel Fuel Company Ltd." (whoprofits.org id 3684) lists Delek Petroleum Ltd. — a wholly-owned Delek Group subsidiary — as holding a 24.75% stake, alongside Lahav L.R. Real Estate (39.6%) and B.G.M. Ltd. (33.86%), the buyers from the 2020 sale; AFSC's Investigate database independently corroborates a Delek Group stake of about 24%. This is a minority, non-controlling holding — the other two shareholders hold roughly three-quarters between them — so Delek Israel's own conduct is still not Delek Group's conduct. Who Profits documents Delek Israel as operating 14 fuel stations and 10 "Joe" convenience stores in West Bank settlements, East Jerusalem and the Golan, and as majority owner (about 93%) of the Burger King Israel franchise, whose wartime soldier-meal donations are recorded on our Restaurant Brands page; these are Who Profits' characterisations of Delek Israel, not documented acts of Delek Group. Recorded here because Delek Group retains a real, sourced equity interest in that activity, distinct from having none.
Donations total$5,683,000

Frequently asked questions

Did Delek Group donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?

Yes. Documented donations total $5,683,000, including $5,683,000 to Keren Delek for Science, Education and Culture (Delek Group's wholly owned donation arm) and, through it, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation and the “Sha'arei Tshuva” synagogue in the Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem. Each donation is listed on this page with its date and source.

How much has Delek Group given?

Documented donations total $5,683,000. The largest single recorded item is $5,683,000 to Keren Delek for Science, Education and Culture (Delek Group's wholly owned donation arm) and, through it, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation and the “Sha'arei Tshuva” synagogue in the Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem (2018).

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. 16 distinct sources are cited for Delek Group. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.

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Record last updated: 2026-09-26

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