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Does Reuters support Israel?
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Reuters does business in Israel — we found records of its operations there, but no record of donations, aid, or a public statement of support. Every claim below links to its source.
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Background
Reuters is a news agency, and this page applies to it the rule it applies to any broadcaster: reporting on Israel is not support for Israel, and a dispute about coverage is not a corporate act. Reuters News is a customer segment of Thomson Reuters Corporation of Toronto, whose own record is not merged into this page; Thomson Reuters' controlling shareholder is The Woodbridge Company Limited. What we found in Israel is commerce and journalism: a registered Israeli subsidiary with offices in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, an IT outsourcing contract with an Israeli supplier, and purchase orders under which a US government broadcaster bought Israeli local-news footage from that subsidiary. We found no donation, no in-kind aid, no employee-gift match, no sponsorship, no political money and no corporate statement of support for Israel. The prominent Israel-related episodes involving Reuters run the other way. In November 2023 the Israeli government and the pro-Israel media monitor HonestReporting accused Reuters and other agencies over Gaza freelance photographers present during the 7 October attack; Reuters categorically denied prior knowledge of the attack and said it had no prior relationship with the two freelancers whose pictures it bought. In December 2023 Reuters published its own investigation concluding that an Israeli tank crew killed its journalist Issam Abdallah in south Lebanon on 13 October 2023. One Israel-linked funding link sits beside Reuters' charitable arm and runs towards it rather than away: Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, funds a fellowship place at the Reuters Institute at Oxford, which the Thomson Reuters Foundation funds.
Thomson Reuters — annual information form filed with the SEC (40-F exhibit, March 2025): Reuters News segment, Woodbridge, Refinitiv/LSEG sale Al Jazeera — news outlets reject allegations of complicity in the 7 October attack (9 November 2023) Ynetnews — Israel demands action from four international news outlets NPR — Reuters investigation finds Israeli tank fire killed its journalist (7 December 2023) Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (Oxford) — funders of the fellowship
Timeline of documented records
Documented records
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations in Israel | 2019 | — | Reuters News & Media Israel Ltd (formerly Thomson Reuters Israel Limited), Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Reuters' presence in Israel is a locally registered company. A supplier billing document that Thomson Reuters publishes on its own website lists, in its Israel row, the legal entity previously named Thomson Reuters Israel Limited and now named Reuters News & Media Israel Ltd, Israeli tax registration number 515823862, with billing addresses at 1 Agudat Sport Hapoel Street, Jerusalem and 38 HaMasger Street, Tel Aviv. The document was created in January 2019 and is still published. The same entity name and the same Tel Aviv address appear in the US federal award records on this page, which is how the identity of the Israeli unit was confirmed. This is a bureau and a sales presence — a news agency reporting from Israel, and one with Israeli customers (the Ness Technologies agreement recorded below names them), as it also reports from Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and the Arab states — and not a donation, aid or a statement of support. | |
| Government contract | 2013-10-23 | $33,525 | Thomson Reuters Israel Ltd. — paid by the U.S. Agency for Global Media The U.S. Agency for Global Media, the US government's international broadcasting agency and then still named the Broadcasting Board of Governors, bought local video news material from Reuters' Israeli unit under two purchase orders: BBG8393REUTER, $15,246.39, running 1 October 2012 to 20 November 2013, and 24384REUTE, $18,279, running 23 October 2013 to 30 September 2014 — $33,525.39 in total. Both were awarded to Thomson Reuters Israel Ltd. at 38 HaMasger Street, Tel Aviv, and both are described in the federal record as video news material of local news. The direction of the money is the point: a US government agency paid Reuters' Israeli subsidiary for footage. This is a sale of journalism to an American broadcaster, not a payment to Israel and not support for it. | |
| Government contract | 2010-02-01 | — | Ness Technologies, an Israeli IT services company Thomson Reuters Israel extended its IT outsourcing agreement with Ness Technologies, an Israeli IT services company, by a further four years, after five years of existing service. Ness provided technical and IT infrastructure services, installations and support for Thomson Reuters Israel's customers, described in the announcement as dealing rooms, brokers, asset management companies, corporations and leading Israeli websites. The announcement was issued by Ness Technologies and quotes Amnon Ortner, described as Thomson Reuters Israel's manager; it discloses no contract value, and a Hebrew trade report that put the scope at millions of shekels could not be read, so no figure is recorded here. The direction of the money is again worth stating: Thomson Reuters' Israeli arm was paying an Israeli supplier for services it bought. The market-data business whose Israeli customers this agreement served has since left Thomson Reuters — the sale of Refinitiv to LSEG closed on 29 January 2021 — so the agreement describes Reuters' Israeli business as it was in 2010, not as it is now. | One source |
Frequently asked questions
Did Reuters donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
We have no records of donations. What is on record is commercial activity in Israel (Operations in Israel, Government contract), which is not the same as support — 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. 9 distinct sources are cited for Reuters. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-25
- Thomson Reuters (official) — bill-to legal entity details, Israel row thomsonreuters.com
- USAspending.gov — purchase order 24384REUTE (FY2014), U.S. Agency for Global Media usaspending.gov
- USAspending.gov — purchase order BBG8393REUTER (FY2013), U.S. Agency for Global Media usaspending.gov
- PR Newswire — Ness Technologies press release, 1 February 2010 prnewswire.com
- Thomson Reuters — annual information form filed with the SEC (40-F exhibit, March 2025): Reuters News segment, Woodbridge, Refinitiv/LSEG sale sec.gov
- Al Jazeera — news outlets reject allegations of complicity in the 7 October attack (9 November 2023) aljazeera.com
- Ynetnews — Israel demands action from four international news outlets ynetnews.com
- NPR — Reuters investigation finds Israeli tank fire killed its journalist (7 December 2023) npr.org
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (Oxford) — funders of the fellowship reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk