Does Paz support Israel?

Paz, which trades today as Paz Retail and Energy Ltd. after renaming from Paz Oil Company, is an Israeli fuel and retail group listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. It runs the country's largest network of filling stations, the Yellow convenience-store chain attached to them, and fuel distribution and refining assets including the Ashdod refinery. This entry records what the company is and where it operates; it is not a donation.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights lists "Paz Retail and Energy Ltd." as entry 122 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.

Norway's Government Pension Fund Global sold all of its shares in Paz, an exclusion announced on 12 May 2025 and based on a Council on Ethics recommendation of 19 December 2024. The Council documented that Paz operates filling stations in nine named West Bank settlements plus East Jerusalem, and concluded that supplying fuel infrastructure to settlements contributes to perpetuating an ongoing violation of international law. As of June 2024 the fund held 0.57% of Paz's shares, worth NOK 58.6 million. The Council noted that Paz neither answered its inquiries nor commented on the draft recommendation, and had blocked access to its website from abroad. This was the second Israeli company the fund excluded under its tightened criteria, after Bezeq in December 2024.

Who Profits, an Israeli-Palestinian advocacy research centre, profiles this company under the name "Paz Energy" — legal name פז קמעונאות ואנרגיה בע"מ, the Hebrew form of Paz Retail and Energy Ltd., the name this page already documents Paz Oil Company renamed to. Its profile, current as of 31 July 2025, records Paz operating 13 petrol stations in Israeli settlements: seven in the West Bank (Karnei Shomron, Alfei Menashe, Ma'ale Adumim, Ariel, Kiryat Arba, the Mishor Adumim industrial zone and Shilat Junction), several in East Jerusalem settlement neighbourhoods (Ramat Eshkol, Gilo, Ramot, Pisgat Ze'ev, and on the Tunnel Road), and two in the occupied Syrian Golan (Katzrin and Merom Golan) — plus "Yellow" convenience stores at many of the same sites. This extends the West Bank-only picture behind Norway's 2025 divestment (recorded above) to include the Golan Heights. The station count and characterisation are Who Profits'; we did not verify each station independently.

Who Profits documents Paz Group under contract, mostly through wholly owned subsidiaries, to fuel several arms of the Israeli state. Its subsidiary Paz Aviation Services has held an Israeli Ministry of Defense tender, won in 2016, to refuel aircraft and maintain refuelling infrastructure at seven Israeli Air Force bases through 31 December 2026. The Israel Police awarded Paz a vehicle-fuel supply tender in 2020 (supply began February 2021) and extended it a further three years in February 2025; a 2023 tender for police-vehicle oils and lubricants went to subsidiary Paz Lubricants & Chemicals. The Israel Prison Service contracted Paz in January-February 2021 for vehicle fuel (NIS 16,599,999) and heating/cooling fuel (NIS 4,349,500). Separately, Paz supplies the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank — headquartered in the settlement of Beit El — under recurring contracts, for example NIS 12,114,406 in December 2022 for vehicle refuelling and car-washing including work near the separation barrier, and supplies the Israeli military's District Coordination and Liaison office for Gaza (e.g. NIS 519,100 in December 2023). Figures are in shekels as Who Profits reports them; no exchange rate is applied. This is single-sourced to Who Profits, an advocacy research centre whose page cites no underlying tender documents; Hebrew-language business press confirms Paz has repeatedly won Israeli government and police fuel tenders over two decades but we found no independent source for these specific figures.