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Does Pepsi support Israel?
Yes — Pepsi has documented support for Israel on record. Every claim below links to its source.
Filed under: Food & beverage brands · Companies that support Israel
Background
Pepsi is a brand of PepsiCo, and no donation, statement or campaign concerning Israel has been documented for the Pepsi brand itself. What is documented at brand level is commercial: PepsiCo licensed the Israeli company Tempo in 1991 and Pepsi has been made in Israel by Tempo — not by PepsiCo — since 1992. Parent-level actions are attributed to the parent, on the PepsiCo page: the PepsiCo Foundation (the company's foundation, not the corporation) pledged $1 million in October 2023 to humanitarian organizations serving both Israel and Gaza with 2-to-1 employee matching; PepsiCo bought the Israeli company SodaStream for $3.2 billion in 2018, and its SEC subsidiary exhibit lists SodaStream Industries Ltd., SodaStream International Ltd., SodaStream Israel Ltd., So Spark Ltd. and VentureCo (Israel) Ltd. as Israeli entities; and PepsiCo's Frito-Lay arm holds 50% of Strauss Frito Lay Ltd., the Israeli salty-snack maker in Sderot. The viral claim that "Pepsi is an Israeli product" is false — Pepsi was invented in North Carolina in 1893 — and fact-checkers have rated it so. The BDS movement's official target list names PepsiCo-owned SodaStream, but not Pepsi.
JLens (PepsiCo Foundation pledge) Haaretz (PepsiCo buys SodaStream) SEC — PepsiCo 10-K Exhibit 21 (FY2020 subsidiaries) Fact Crescendo (Pepsi/Lay's not Israeli products) BDS movement — what to boycott
Timeline of documented support
Documented support
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations in Israel | 1991-08 | — | Tempo Beer Industries (independent Israeli licensee) PepsiCo (the parent corporation, not the Pepsi brand as an actor) granted the Israeli company Tempo Beer Industries the license to produce Pepsi, 7Up and Mirinda in Israel in August 1991, ending Pepsi's decades-long absence from the Israeli market during the Arab League boycott era. As a condition of the license Tempo agreed to stop making its own competing cola, "Tempo Cola." | |
| Operations in Israel | 1992-05 | — | Tempo Beverages — Netanya plant (Israel) Pepsi went on sale in Israel in May 1992, produced at a new plant Tempo built in Netanya beside its brewery; contemporaneous reporting framed the launch as PepsiCo defying the Arab boycott of Israel, which had kept Pepsi out while Coca-Cola was boycotted by the Arab League instead. Tempo Beverages — an independent Israeli company, 40% owned by Heineken International — has been PepsiCo's exclusive Israeli bottler ever since, manufacturing and distributing Pepsi and Pepsi Max locally. The Pepsi brand has no bottling subsidiary of its own in Israel: the local manufacturer is the licensee, not PepsiCo. |
Frequently asked questions
Did Pepsi donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
We have no records of cash donations, but Pepsi has documented support of other kinds (Operations in Israel). See the records on this page.
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. 8 distinct sources are cited for Pepsi. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-07-30
- Hebrew Wikipedia — Tempo Beverages he.wikipedia.org
- The Christian Science Monitor (1992) csmonitor.com
- Wikipedia — Tempo Beer Industries en.wikipedia.org
- JLens (PepsiCo Foundation pledge) jlensnetwork.org
- Haaretz (PepsiCo buys SodaStream) haaretz.com
- SEC — PepsiCo 10-K Exhibit 21 (FY2020 subsidiaries) sec.gov
- Fact Crescendo (Pepsi/Lay's not Israeli products) afghanistan.factcrescendo.com
- BDS movement — what to boycott bdsmovement.net