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Does Hilan support Israel?
Hilan Ltd.
Yes — Hilan has documented support for Israel on record, including $364,000 in donations. Every claim below links to its source.
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Background
Hilan reaches 'does it support Israel' searches because it is an Israeli company whose software runs payroll for a large share of Israeli employers. Its own disclosure answers the question. The corporate-governance chapter of Hilan's 2025 periodic report to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange says the group donated about NIS 1,160 thousand that year and names the recipients — among them the Headquarters of the Families for the Return of the Hostages, the Friends of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organisation, and an association for residents of the Eshkol region on the Gaza border, alongside the Sheba and Soroka hospitals and the community organisation Matan. The company states it has no donations policy. Its 2022 report disclosed a far smaller NIS 165 thousand, directed generally to education, medicine and charitable acts with no recipient named; we did not locate Hilan's own reports for 2023 and 2024, so those years are not covered here. Separately, Hilan has grown by buying Israeli IT companies — Ness Israel, Hashavshevet, DXC Technology Israel and Log-On — and taking a minority stake in Boost. That is commerce, not support, and the 2014 Ness purchase explicitly excluded Ness's defence division TSG. Hilan is listed only in Tel Aviv, has no US securities registration and no US corporate foundation, and appears neither in the UN OHCHR database nor on Who Profits.
Hilan Ltd — 2025 periodic report (TASE/Maya), corporate governance chapter Hilan Ltd — 2022 periodic report (TASE/Maya), board explanations chapter Hilan (official) — About us
Timeline of documented support
Documented support
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations in Israel | 2026 | — | State of Israel (headquarters, employment and tax base; payroll infrastructure for Israeli employers) Israeli company: Hilan describes itself as Israel's leading Software-as-a-Service provider for enterprise human-capital management — payroll, HR, time and attendance and pension — built over five decades, with its contact address at 8 Meitav Street, Tel Aviv. It states that it serves over 1,800 organizations and more than one million employees across all Israeli business sectors, which makes it a core piece of the payroll infrastructure of the Israeli economy. Its shares trade on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (HLAN). | |
| Operations in Israel | 2026 | — | Israeli IT market (Hilan Group subsidiaries Ness, We Ankor, Qlik Israel, Hashavshevet) Beyond payroll, the publicly held Hilan Group runs a cluster of Israeli IT businesses: Ness, which Hilan calls one of Israel's leading IT service companies; We Ankor, an IT integration provider (big data, storage, backup, virtualization, cloud and cyber security) that became a Hilan subsidiary in 2011; Qlik Israel, the local partner of the Qlik analytics platform; and the Hashavshevet ERP group for small and mid-sized businesses. Hilan also owns Payday, a US payroll and HR services company — the American arm is a subsidiary, not the Israeli parent. | |
| Donation | 2025 | $364,000 | Headquarters of the Families for the Return of the Hostages; Friends of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organisation; association for residents of the Eshkol region; Friends of Sheba Medical Center Tel HaShomer; Friends of Soroka Medical Center; Matan – Investing in the Community Hilan's own 2025 periodic report, in its corporate-governance chapter, states that the company has no donations policy but believes in community involvement and in giving directed to education, medicine and charitable acts, and that group donations for the year ended 31 December 2025 came to about NIS 1,160 thousand (about US$364,000 at the Bank of Israel rate of 3.19 shekels per dollar on 31 December 2025). It itemises, among others, NIS 350 thousand to the Friends of Sheba Medical Center Tel HaShomer, NIS 150 thousand to the Headquarters of the Families for the Return of the Hostages, NIS 100 thousand to the Friends of Soroka Medical Center, NIS 100 thousand to the association for the advancement of residents of the Eshkol region on the Gaza border, NIS 91.29 thousand to the Friends of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organisation and NIS 69 thousand to Matan – Investing in the Community. This is the money of Hilan Ltd and the companies it holds, not a separate foundation's and not employees'. The report adds that none of the recipients is connected to the company, its directors, its chief executive or its controlling shareholder, except Sheba Medical Center, which is a group client. | One source |
| Acquisition | 2014-11-11 | $42,000,000 | Ness Technologies (seller of Ness Israel) Hilan bought the Israeli IT services company Ness Israel from Ness Technologies, agreed in June 2014 for NIS 145 million and completed on 11 November 2014 for $42 million (NIS 158 million), financed with two loans totalling NIS 150 million. The deal is what turned Hilan from a payroll house into an Israeli IT group: Ness Israel employed about 2,500 staff at signing and about 2,700 at completion, and Hilan said it aimed to build a leading Israeli IT business of some 3,000 employees. TheMarker reports that the purchase explicitly EXCLUDED Ness's defence division TSG, along with the pension clearing house and the global IT headquarters, so Hilan did not acquire Ness's defence business. Ness Israel's chief executive Shahar Ef'al stayed on and took up to about 10% of the shares. | |
| Acquisition | 2022-01-04 | $61,410,000 | Hashavshevet (Israeli business software company) Hilan signed a binding memorandum of understanding on 28 October 2021 to buy the entire issued and paid-up share capital of the Israeli business-software company Hashavshevet, which makes accounting, finance, inventory and ERP software for Israeli businesses and employed about 200 people. Bizportal, reporting Hilan's stock-exchange announcement on 31 October 2021, gave the price as NIS 210 million. The binding agreement was signed on 4 January 2022 and covered 100% of Hashavshevet together with the transferred activity — the intellectual property in the Hashavshevet software and the staff working on it — for a total consideration of NIS 190 million (about US$61.4 million at the Bank of Israel rate of 3.094 shekels per dollar on 4 January 2022). Hilan's periodic report states that the full consideration was paid that day and the transaction was completed, with effect from 1 January 2022. On top of the consideration, Hilan agreed to pay the sellers royalties of 15% to 35% for each of the years 2022 to 2031 on any growth in the acquired company's overseas sales, payable each 31 March from 2023 to 2032. | |
| Acquisition | 2021-12-21 | $65,000,000 | DXC Hague (Netherlands), seller of DXC Technology Israel Hilan announced that its subsidiary NESS, in which it then held 99%, had signed an agreement to buy the Israeli operations of DXC Technology Israel — formerly EDS — from the Dutch company DXC Hague for $65 million, which Bizportal put at about NIS 200 million. DXC Israel employed about 600 technology specialists in Israel supplying IT modernisation, data-architecture optimisation, information security and private, public and hybrid cloud work to large organisations and to Israeli government bodies; Bizportal quotes the company saying it has a considerable number of customers in government ministries. Hilan's chairman Avi Baum said the purchase was expected to make Hilan the leading information-technology group in Israel. Completion was expected at the end of the first quarter of 2022, with 10% of the price held in escrow for 18 months and a further $2 million paid to the seller within six months of completion. | |
| Acquisition | 2026-07-01 | $64,450,000 | Log-On (Israeli software and IT company, founded 1983) Hilan's subsidiary NESS bought 100% of the Israeli software and IT company Log-On for about NIS 192 million (about US$64.45 million at the Bank of Israel rate of 2.979 shekels per dollar on 1 July 2026), of which NIS 164.5 million went to the sellers and NIS 27.5 million was put into the company itself. The agreement was announced on 19 April 2026 and NESS said on 1 July 2026 that it had completed the purchase on the original terms after the Israeli Competition Commissioner's approval. About 1,000 Log-On staff, mostly consultants and technology specialists, transferred to NESS, taking NESS to more than 6,500 employees in Israel, and NESS took full ownership of Log-On's services business with strategic Israeli organisations and of its software product portfolio. ice reports that Log-On, founded in 1983, counts Israel's large banks, insurers and credit companies, government and defence ministries, technology firms, start-ups and development centres among its customers. | |
| Investment / program | 2025-09-07 | — | Boost (monday.com platform partner, subsidiary of the Moveo group) Hilan's subsidiary NESS took a one-third stake in Boost, an Israeli consultancy that builds on the monday.com work-management platform and is itself a subsidiary of the Moveo group. Bizportal reports the deal at a stated company valuation of about NIS 60 million; the price NESS actually paid for the third was not disclosed, so no amount is recorded here. Boost holds monday.com's highest professional-services partner status in Israel. NESS described the move as deepening its work-management business generally and towards the Israeli government sector in particular — a minority stake in a partner company, not a purchase of Boost. | One source |
| Donations total | $364,000 | |||
Frequently asked questions
Did Hilan donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
Yes. Documented donations total $364,000, including $364,000 to Headquarters of the Families for the Return of the Hostages; Friends of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organisation; association for residents of the Eshkol region; Friends of Sheba Medical Center Tel HaShomer; Friends of Soroka Medical Center; Matan – Investing in the Community. Each donation is listed on this page with its date and source.
How much has Hilan given?
Documented donations total $364,000. The largest single recorded item is $364,000 to Headquarters of the Families for the Return of the Hostages; Friends of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organisation; association for residents of the Eshkol region; Friends of Sheba Medical Center Tel HaShomer; Friends of Soroka Medical Center; Matan – Investing in the Community (2025).
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. 13 distinct sources are cited for Hilan. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-26
- Hilan (official) — About us hilan.co.il
- Investing.com — Hilan Ltd. company profile investing.com
- Hilan Ltd — 2025 periodic report (TASE/Maya), corporate governance chapter mayafiles.tase.co.il
- TheMarker — Hilan acquires Ness Israel for NIS 145 million themarker.com
- TheMarker — Hilan completed the Ness acquisition for $42 million themarker.com
- Hilan Ltd — 2022 periodic report (TASE/Maya), board explanations chapter mayafiles.tase.co.il
- Bizportal — Hilan acquires the software company Hashavshevet for NIS 210 million bizportal.co.il
- TheMarker — Hilan's mergers and acquisitions journey themarker.com
- Bizportal — Hilan keeps buying: DXC Israel for $65 million bizportal.co.il
- ice — Ness acquires DXC Technology Israel for $65 million ice.co.il
- Sponser — Hilan: subsidiary NESS to acquire Log-On for about NIS 192 million sponser.co.il
- ice — NESS completed the Log-On acquisition for about NIS 192 million ice.co.il
- Bizportal — NESS of the Hilan group buys a third of Boost bizportal.co.il