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Does Talabat support Israel?

Talabat Holding plc

Owned by Delivery Hero Records for the parent company are kept separately.

No records found10 sources checked

We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Talabat. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.

Filed under: Tech companies · Companies that support Israel

Background

Talabat is a food, grocery and retail delivery platform founded in Kuwait in 2004 and headquartered in Dubai. It was acquired by the German group Delivery Hero SE in 2015, and on 10 December 2024 Delivery Hero floated a stake of about 20% of Talabat Holding plc on the Dubai Financial Market, keeping a clear majority and half the board seats; the offering raised roughly $2 billion. Talabat operates in eight markets — the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq — and in none of them, nor anywhere else, does it operate in Israel. No recorded donations, investments, contracts, sponsorships or statements in support of Israel were found for Talabat or for its parent Delivery Hero. Three points need precise attribution. First, Delivery Hero has no Israeli subsidiary, market or joint venture; the Israeli food-delivery company 10bis, often mixed up with Delivery Hero's portfolio in online lists, was bought in 2018 for €135 million by the Dutch group Takeaway.com — a different company, now part of Just Eat Takeaway. Second, boycott campaigns after October 2023 targeted Talabat over restaurant brands available on its app — McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks and others — but a delivery platform listing a restaurant is a marketplace relationship, not ownership of that brand or a position on its politics, and no removal, refusal or statement by Talabat about Israel is on record. Third, on 16 July 2026 Uber announced a €41.50-per-share cash offer valuing Delivery Hero at about $14.8 billion, with talabat named among the brands it would acquire and completion expected in the second half of 2027. That deal is pending regulatory and shareholder approval: Uber does not own Delivery Hero or Talabat today, and Uber's own documented Israel-linked action — a September 2025 equity investment in the Israeli drone-delivery startup Flytrex — is recorded on Uber's page, not attributed to Talabat here. Talabat reports to the Dubai Financial Market and the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority rather than to US regulators, so the absence recorded here rests on its disclosures, Gulf and German financial press and news review rather than on US filings. Hebrew and Arabic coverage adds nothing in Israel's direction, and one thing in the other. Arabic explainers repeatedly ask whether talabat supports Israel; the documented giving runs the opposite way. On 19 October 2023 talabat announced it was donating AED 2 million (about US$545,000) to the UN World Food Programme for humanitarian relief in Gaza, and put its platform and cost-price tMart aid boxes at the disposal of licensed local charity partners across its markets. In May 2021 it pledged a single day's profits to Palestinian relief through the same agency, with employee matching and in-app customer donations, its then chief executive Tomaso Rodriguez calling it a duty to stand for humanity. Neither act is support for Israel and neither is recorded as evidence on this page. Hebrew-language searches returned only financial coverage of Uber's bid for Delivery Hero; Israel's own delivery market belongs to Wolt, owned by DoorDash, and to 10bis, and talabat is absent from it.

The National — Talabat IPO: Delivery Hero to sell stake in Dubai listing, markets served Uber Investor Relations — Uber announces acquisition offer for Delivery Hero (16 July 2026) TechCrunch — Uber's $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint Globes — Takeaway.com buys Israeli food delivery company 10bis for €135m (not Delivery Hero) The National — Arab boycott of Western brands after the Gaza war talabat press release (via Zawya, archived) — talabat donates AED 2 million to the UN World Food Programme for relief in Gaza, 19 October 2023 Arab News — Talabat to donate a day's profits to Palestinians through the World Food Programme (26 May 2021) المشهد — "هل منصّة طلبات تدعم إسرائيل؟" (Arabic explainer; gives the WFP donation as about $540,000) Calcalist (Hebrew) — Uber moves to take over German food-delivery group Delivery Hero BDS Movement — call to boycott the Israeli food-delivery app Haat, a different company founded in Umm al-Fahm

What we checked

News & official statements — 2026-07-30
Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-30
ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer shows no US-registered Talabat or Delivery Hero foundation; the automated query returned no matching grantmaking organisation. Both are non-US companies whose giving is not reported on US Form 990, so this source cannot show Israel-linked grants either way.
SEC filings — 2026-07-30
Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-30
An OpenFEC committee search for Talabat and Delivery Hero returned zero committees. Foreign corporations may not contribute in US federal elections, so no US political money trail exists for either company.
Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-30
usaspending — 2026-09-25
Queried the USAspending.gov award API on 2026-09-25 for US federal contracts, grants and other awards to this company whose award text mentions Israel. It returned no awards.
lobbying — 2026-09-25
Searched the US Lobbying Disclosure Act database at lda.gov on 2026-09-25 for filings naming this company as the client whose reported lobbying issues mention Israel. No filings matched.
ohchr — 2026-09-25
Checked the UN OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, report A/HRC/60/19, on 2026-09-25. This company is not listed in it.
whoprofits — 2026-09-25
Searched the Who Profits company index on 2026-09-25 — the research centre that documents corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation. This company has no profile there.
hebrew-arabic-press — 2026-09-26
Read all 40 Hebrew/Arabic leads: each uses طلبات as the ordinary noun "requests" (Israel's demands, army discharge applications) or names the separate Israeli app Haat. None is about talabat. Hebrew coverage is only Uber/Delivery Hero deal news. No Israel-support record.

Frequently asked questions

Did Talabat donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?

No records found. We searched 10 public source types — news and official statements, nonprofit tax filings, SEC filings, and federal election records — and found no donations from Talabat. The dated search log on this page shows exactly where we looked.

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. 10 distinct sources are cited for Talabat. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.

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Record last updated: 2026-09-26