Africa Israel Investments
Israeli holding company controlled by Lev Leviev
Africa Israel Investments (Hebrew: אפריקה ישראל) is an Israeli holding and investment company active in real estate, construction, infrastructure, industry and hotels. Its head office is at 4 HaHoresh Street, Yehud. According to Who Profits, its main shareholder is Lev Leviev, who held 48.13% of the shares (information valid to 17 July 2019).[1]
Settlement construction
Who Profits says that the company's subsidiary Danya Cebus "has been involved in several construction projects in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory". In 1999 it won a tender to build 72 housing units in Har Homa in occupied East Jerusalem; in 2004 it won a tender to build 2,500 housing units in the "Green Park" neighbourhood of the Modi'in Illit settlement; and in 2008 it worked on a project in Ma'ale Adumim. Who Profits also says that another subsidiary, Geo Danya, worked on three sections of an underground wall around the Gaza Strip under a Ministry of Defence contract worth 770 million shekels.[1]
In 2008 the architect Abe Hayeem wrote in The Guardian that Danya Cebus had built homes in three West Bank settlements, Mattityahu East, Har Homa and Ma'ale Adumim, and that Leviev was "a major donor to the Land Redemption Fund (LRF), which is affiliated with the radical fundamentalist Gush Emunim settler movement". He criticised the British government's decision to rent space for its new embassy in Tel Aviv from the company.[2]
In June 2008 Reuters reported that UNICEF had cut its ties with Leviev because of his suspected involvement in building settlements in the occupied West Bank, after a campaign by the Arab rights advocacy group Adalah-NY. A UNICEF official said the agency had found "at least a reasonable grounds for suspecting" that companies owned by Leviev were building settlements in occupied territory. Chris de Bono, a senior adviser to UNICEF's executive director, said the agency would not enter into partnerships with, or accept financial contributions from, Leviev or his "corporate people"; he said UNICEF was aware of the controversy over Leviev's reported construction work in the occupied Palestinian territory and that its policy was for partners to be "as non-controversial as possible". Leviev was then chairman of the company, whose units include Danya Cebus, which Adalah-NY accused of carrying out settlement construction. According to de Bono, Leviev's only known partnership with UNICEF was a donation of jewellery in 2007 to a fashion event in France that benefited UNICEF's French national committee; UNICEF could not say how much Leviev had given as an individual. Representatives of Leviev's jewellery and property businesses were not available for comment.[3]
Chabad connection
Leviev, the company's chairman at the time of the Guardian article, is a major Chabad donor; see Lev Leviev and Chabad in occupied Palestine.[2]
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Who Profits, Africa Israel Investments whoprofits.org, accessed 25 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Abe Hayeem, The wrong message to Israel The Guardian, 9 September 2008, accessed 25 October 2026.
- ↑ Daniel Trotta, REFILE-UNICEF cuts ties to Israeli billionaire Leviev Reuters, 20 June 2008, accessed 28 October 2026.