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Does Shufersal support Israel?
Shufersal Ltd.
Yes — Shufersal has documented support for Israel on record, including $2,742,000 in donations. Every claim below links to its source.
Filed under: Retail & supermarket chains · Companies that support Israel
Background
Shufersal is the biggest name in Israeli grocery retail, so it appears in boycott discussions mainly for what it is rather than for a single donation: an Israeli public company whose stores are the country's food supply line, and which is listed by the settlement-monitoring researchers Who Profits and by AFSC Investigate — the latter citing the United Nations' 2020 database of 112 businesses linked to Israeli settlements — for operating supermarket and Be drugstore branches in West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements and in Katzrin in the occupied Golan, and for selling settlement-produced dairy and wine through its online shop. Its documented war-related support is separate and modest by comparison: in-kind food, gluten-free and pharmacy donations to soldiers and water to Sderot in October 2023, and ILS 10 million in reported 2024 giving aimed at displaced Israelis, Gaza-border farmers, disabled veterans and a memorial project. The chain also paid its own staff a war-service bonus of up to ILS 750 in store vouchers, which is employee compensation rather than a donation and is not counted as evidence here.
Who Profits — Shufersal AFSC Investigate — Shufersal Ltd Calcalist (Hebrew) — TA-125 corporate donations
Timeline of documented support
Documented support
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations in Israel | 1958 | — | State of Israel (taxes, employment, national food supply) Shufersal is Israel's largest supermarket chain, founded in 1958 by grocers from Detroit who brought the American supermarket format to Israel. Headquartered in Rishon LeZion and listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (SAE), it operated about 316 supermarkets plus 96 Be pharmacy-drugstore branches as of 2024, employed some 15,500 people and held roughly a fifth of the Israeli grocery market. Brothers Yossi and Shlomi Amir became the controlling shareholders in 2024 after buying a 24.99% stake for about ILS 1.5 billion, and serve as co-CEOs. Its 2023 net income was ILS 323 million. | One source |
| In-kind support | 2023-10 | — | IDF soldiers (via army coordination centres and direct delivery to bases); residents of Sderot In the opening weeks of the October 2023 war Shufersal donated tens of thousands of food products, gluten-free products and pharmacy goods worth hundreds of thousands of shekels to Israeli soldiers, delivering them through the army's coordination centres and directly to bases, and sent about 15,000 litres of mineral water to residents of Sderot. The chain also kept its branch network supplied from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat while parts of the country were under rocket fire. Attributed to Shufersal corporate. | One source |
| Donation | 2024 | $2,742,000 | Displaced Israeli residents, Gaza-border farmers, disabled IDF veterans, a war memorial project In its May 2025 survey of charitable giving by Tel Aviv-125 index companies, Calcalist reported that Shufersal donated ILS 10 million in 2024 — about 1.5% of its profits, roughly $2.7 million at ~3.7 ILS/USD — directed at displaced residents, farmers in the Gaza-border communities, disabled IDF veterans and a war memorial project. The dollar figure is a conversion, not a reported amount. Calcalist noted generally that some TA-125 companies' war-time contributions mixed charitable aid with marketing benefit. Independent corroboration: Globes reported in January 2024 that, since the war began, Shufersal had donated equipment and money worth millions of shekels to IDF forces, evacuees and the Hostages and Missing Families Headquarters, and separately launched a multi-year, multi-million-shekel assistance programme "adopting" Kibbutz Sufa — consistent with, though not an exact restatement of, Calcalist's ILS 10m/2024 figure. | |
| Operations in Israel | 2025 | — | Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the occupied Golan Heights (via branch operations, land use and sale of settlement-produced goods) The UN Human Rights Office's 2025 update to its database of business enterprises involved in settlement-related activities (A/HRC/60/19, Annex I, covering alleged involvement between 2 August 2019 and 30 April 2025) lists Shufersal Ltd. for listed activities (e) — services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport — and (g) — use of natural resources, particularly land, for business purposes; it was not moved to Annex II (businesses no longer involved). Who Profits, an advocacy research centre, documents the underlying activity as of October 2023: Shufersal operates supermarket and Be drugstore branches — under the Shufersal, Shufersal Deal, Yesh Chesed and Be brand names — in the West Bank settlements of Ariel, Ma'ale Adumim, Modi'in Ilit, Efrat and Beitar Ilit, in the East Jerusalem settlements of Ramat Eshkol, Ramat Shlomo, Pisgat Ze'ev and Gilo, in Katzrin in the occupied Golan, and a store in Shilat beyond the Green Line; and its online shop sells settlement-produced Golan dairy (Ramat Hagolan Dairies) and wine (Golan Heights Winery, Carmel Wineries) and goods from Achdut-Achva, based in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. | |
| Donations total | $2,742,000 | |||
Frequently asked questions
Did Shufersal donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
Yes. Documented donations total $2,742,000, including $2,742,000 to Displaced Israeli residents, Gaza-border farmers, disabled IDF veterans, a war memorial project. Each donation is listed on this page with its date and source.
How much has Shufersal given?
Documented donations total $2,742,000. The largest single recorded item is $2,742,000 to Displaced Israeli residents, Gaza-border farmers, disabled IDF veterans, a war memorial project (2024).
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 Shufersal. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-25
- Wikipedia — Shufersal en.wikipedia.org
- Walla Finance (Hebrew) finance.walla.co.il
- Calcalist (Hebrew) — TA-125 corporate donations calcalist.co.il
- Globes (Hebrew) — "Shufersal adopts Kibbutz Sufa through a two-year assistance programme" globes.co.il
- UN OHCHR — Database of business enterprises (A/HRC/60/19) documents.un.org
- Who Profits — Shufersal whoprofits.org
- Who Profits — Shufersal whoprofits.org
- AFSC Investigate — Shufersal Ltd investigate.afsc.org