British Friends of the Hebrew University

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UK fundraising charity for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

British Friends of the Hebrew University

Logo British Friends of the Hebrew University logo.png
Type Charitable company
Founded 21 November 2007 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 209691; company 06350828
Headquarters 3rd Floor South, Marlborough House, 298 Regents Park Road, London, N3 2SZ
Area served Israel
Key people Alan Jacobs (chair)
Website www.bfhu.org
The Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus, Jerusalem (2010). The charity's grants to the Hebrew University were £2,454,156 in the year to September 2025

The British Friends of the Hebrew University (BFHU) is a British charity set up to support and promote the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It allows the University to support students and academics, to fund research projects and promote opportunities to study at the University.[1]

History

The charity was established in 1926, and is the oldest established Jewish charity in support of higher education in the UK. It was started Sir Philip Hartog and Sir Herbert Samuel who initiated book collections for the University’s library, founded the first scholarships and organised guest lectures. Amongst the earliest financial contributors were the families of Ernest Franklin, Richard Gregory, James de Rothschild, Redcliffe Salaman, Charles Singer and Chaim Weizmann.[2]

Activities

The Hebrew University's Givat Ram campus, Jerusalem (2007). The charity raises funds for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

According to BFHU website, the Friends help fund scientific, medical and engineering research for the ‘improvement of people’s lives in Israel and worldwide’, as well as providing scholarships to British students studying at the HU. They have also carried on the early work of Samuel and Hartog, organising HU speakers and ambassadorial students to the UK.'[2] In 2014 the BFHU sponsored seven HU professors to participate in the Limmud Conference, four ambassadorial students at the Leeds Festival for Peace and seven other professors to lectures and events around the UK.[2]

Carmi Gillon and torture

In 2007 The criminologist Stan Cohen denounced the appointment of former Shin Bet chief Carmi Gillon as vice president for external affairs at the Hebrew University:[3]

A rather special academic will be visiting London this week. The current brochure of the British Friends of the Hebrew University (BFHU) announces that Vice President Week 2007 starts this Thursday, November 22. The university's new vice president for external relations, Carmi Gillon, will be here for a keynote lecture, a patron's dinner at the Athenaeum and a young professional's breakfast. This is no ordinary academic drafted into a hack fund-raising job. The BFHU's description of Gillon, however - as ex-Shin Bet chief, past Israeli ambassador to Denmark and a speaker with a "colourful past" - hardly conveys why he is so special.
The real Gillon joined Shin Bet (or Shabak) - the internal Israeli general security service (GSS) - in the mid 1970s. He worked in the ranks until 1988, when he was promoted to head of the training branch and then the northern region branch. In 1993, he became chief of the headquarters branch, and in 1995 was named overall head of the GSS. He was forced out a year later (for the security failure of not preventing the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.)
The period in which Gillon occupied the most senior positions in the service was the high point in Shin Bet's policy of torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees. Until the Israel high court of justice ruled against such methods in 1999, GSS interrogators were officially allowed to use "moderate physical pressure" on detainees. These methods were listed only in secret government guidelines, but became well known from many sources (including court testimonies of GSS officials themselves). They included sensory and sleep deprivation; prolonged shackling in painful positions (like the "banana tie"); hooding - near suffocation - with filthy sacks; being forced to squat like a frog and violent shaking.
During Gillon's period of office, such methods of interrogation were used - routinely if rather cursorily - against hundreds of Palestinians every year. A standard estimate for 1987-1994 was 23,000 detainees - most of whom were later released without charge. More intense and brutal ("augmented") combinations were used against hardcore suspects and authorised by Gillon. In April 1995, one detainee was literally shaken to death in the police compound in Jerusalem. For detailed information on interrogation methods during Gillon's tenure of senior positions in the GSS, see Torture During Interrogations, November 1994 and other reports of B'tselem, the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
After leaving the service, Gillon spent time in various business and public enterprises (including the directorship of the Centre of Peace, a project of his political patron, Shimon Peres). In July 2001, he was nominated as the Israeli ambassador to Denmark. There was some outcry in the international human rights community and calls were made for the Danish government to reject Gillon's appointment or for Israel to withdraw his nomination. "Diplomatic service," wrote Human Rights Watch, "should not be the source of job and travel opportunities for persons responsible for committing or sanctioning torture". Amnesty International requested that the Danish government arrest Gillon under the UN convention against torture. These calls were dismissed (the Danish government claimed - incorrectly - that he was protected by diplomatic immunity) and he took up his posting in Copenhagen.
Gillon gave a number of interviews to the Danish media in which he explicitly defended his past record. He admitted to at least 100 personal authorisations of torture interrogations. He also suggested that practices designated as illegal by the high court in 1999, might now have to be legalised because of new threats of terror.

People

Board

In 2014:[4] | Jenny Arwas, non-executive director of Employment Opportunities, board member of the Prince's Trust London Council][5][6] | Graham Edwards, a director at a number of companies and charities including OneVoice Europe,[7] which trie to build bridges between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian communities in Europe and support the work of OneVoice Israel, OneVoice Palestine and OneVoice US[8] | Isaac Kaye, a donor to the Labour Party, member of Labour Friends of Israel and a key-backer to Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre | Jonathan Marks | Tony Page | Alan Philipp (treasurer), former treasurer of Jewish Care, chairman of the Jewish Care Pension Fund[9] and sits on the board of the Anglo-Jewish Association[10] | Marc Polonsky, a partner of law firm White & Case, trustee of the Polonsky Foundation, member of the board of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and governor of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies[11][12] | Margo Schwartz | Elad Shraga, the global head of credit solutions group Deutsche Bank[13] | Joe Smouha QC

Trustees

In 2014:[14] | Bernard Myers, a special adviser and former managing director of N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, director of Rothschild Bank AG, an associate governor of the Hebrew University and member of the Jewish Leadership Council[15] | Isaac Kaye | Jonathan Marks | Margo Schwartz | Alan Philipp | Howard Shore, a director of Shore Capital Limited, UK Group of Hotels Plc and Puma Nominees Limited and a director of The Weizmann Institute Foundation[16][17] Henry Gabay | Jonathan Paisner, former solicitor at family company Berwin Leighton Paisner, founder of LMN Capital Partners, director of Puma Investments and member of Shore Investments.

Former trustees

Geoffrey Simmonds, resigned from his role in 2005. In 2008 he called for the Charity Commission to investigate the BFHU's handling of millions of pounds worth of donor funds. Simmonds claimed the university had been missing out on funds because the charity had been deducting money for management costs.[18] The charity's chairman Brent Isaacs defended the policy and added that the president of the university, the Friends' trustees and the Charity Commission have expressed themselves comfortable with the arrangements.[19]

President and vice-presidents

Circa 2014

John Sacher, president. [20] | Rabbi Tony Bayfield, vice-president. Head of the Movement for Reform Judaism[21] | Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy, vice-president | Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, vice-president | Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg | HE Israeli Ambassador

Council of patrons

HH Judge Clive Callman [22] | Lady Collins | Lord Dyson | Michael J Gee, director of The Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies and former director at The London Jewish Cultural Centre and The Spiro Institute for the Study of Jewish History and Culture[23] | Sir Martin Gilbert | Isaac Kaye | Dr Lionel Kopelowitz, former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews[24] | Stella Lucas | Norman Naftalin | Lord David Pannick QC | Suzanne Perlman-Sternberg | Wendy Pollecoff, trustee and treasurer to the Jewish Youth Fund, trustee to the Wiener Library and the Jewish Chronicle Trust and a former trustee to the BFHU for ten years[25] | Dr Leonard Polonsky, founder and president of Hansard Global plc[26] | Felix Posen, founder of The Posen Foundation, which aims to make Jewish education easily accessible[27] | Warren Roiter | Dr Leonard Slotover | Anthony Spitz | Professor Stuart Stanton | Sir Sigmund Sternberg, life president of Movement for Reform Judaism, former sole patron of the International Council of Christians and Jews, co-founder of the Three Faiths Forum, vice president of the World Congress of Faiths and co-ordinator of the religious component of the World Economic Forum[28] | Lady Wolfson of Marylebone, one of the UK's leading philanthropists and a trustee of the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation[29] | Lord Woolf | Fred Worms

Current trustees (Charity Commission register, October 2026)

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[30]

Trustees of British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Jenny Arwas 2012-11-25 Simon Cooper Foundation (1174106)
Joseph Smouha Kc 2012-11-25 Royal Orchestral Society (261421); The Anav Charitable Trust (1126336); The English Concert (271765)
David Mark Wernick 2016-12-07 —
Denise Nicole Joseph 2017-05-24 Nisa-nashim (1175728); Sweet Charity (London) Limited (1080361); The Cvc Music Foundation (1208149); The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (252626); The Joseph Charitable Trust (1208148); Trust for London Trustee (1107172)
Derek Bryan Spitz 2019-05-16 —
Alan Jacobs 2021-03-25 Yes College Farm Trust (1074936); The Jacob Foundation (290759); UK Friends of Natal (1137662)
Benjamin Harry George Stowe 2022-09-29 —
Jeremy Amias 2022-12-05 —
Steven Kaye 2026-03-18 The Aimwell Charitable Trust (1039415)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2018-01-04 Isaac Kaye; Denise Joseph; Joseph Smouha; Graham Edwards; Jonathan Marks; Alan Philipp; Jenny Arwas; Anthony Page; Simon Tobelem; David Mark Wernick [31]
2021-01-12 Jonathan Marks; Derek Bryan Spitz (from 16 May 2019); Isaac Kaye – also trustee of The Aimwell Charitable Trust; David Mark Wernick (from 07 December 2016) – also trustee of Wheelwright's Charity; Jenny Arwas (from 25 November 2012) – also trustee of Simon Cooper Foundation; Anthony Page (from 25 November 2012); Alan Philipp – also trustee of The Jewish Widows and Students Aid Trust; Joseph Smouha Qc (from 25 November 2012) – also trustee of Royal Orchestral Society, The Anav Charitable Trust, The English Concert; Denise Joseph (from 24 May 2017) – also trustee of Sweet Charity (London) Limited, Onevoice Europe, JW3 Trust Limited; Simon Tobelem (from 16 September 2015) – also trustee of Greenaway Foundation, Baba Sali Trust [32]
2026-01-06 Alan Jacobs (chair) (from 25 March 2021) – also trustee of UK Friends of Natal, The Jacob Foundation, College Farm Trust; Jeremy Amias (from 05 December 2022); Benjamin Harry George Stowe (from 29 September 2022); Derek Bryan Spitz (from 16 May 2019); Denise Nicole Joseph (from 24 May 2017) – also trustee of JW3 Trust Limited, Nisa-nashim, The Joseph Charitable Trust, The Cvc Music Foundation, The Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Trust for London Trustee, Sweet Charity (London) Limited; David Mark Wernick (from 07 December 2016); Simon Tobelem (from 16 September 2015) – also trustee of The Heshaim Or Theological College, Baba Sali Trust; Jenny Arwas (from 25 November 2012) – also trustee of Simon Cooper Foundation; Joseph Smouha Kc (from 25 November 2012) – also trustee of The English Concert, The Anav Charitable Trust, Royal Orchestral Society; Anthony Page (from 25 November 2012); Isaac Kaye – also trustee of The Aimwell Charitable Trust; Alan Philipp – also trustee of The Jewish Students Aid Trust [33]
2026-07-02 Alan Jacobs (chair) (from 25 March 2021) – also trustee of UK Friends of Natal, The Jacob Foundation, College Farm Trust; Steven Kaye (from 18 March 2026) – also trustee of The Aimwell Charitable Trust; Jeremy Amias (from 05 December 2022); Benjamin Harry George Stowe (from 29 September 2022); Derek Bryan Spitz (from 16 May 2019); Denise Nicole Joseph (from 24 May 2017) – also trustee of Nisa-nashim, The Joseph Charitable Trust, The Cvc Music Foundation, The Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Trust for London Trustee, Sweet Charity (London) Limited; David Mark Wernick (from 07 December 2016); Simon Tobelem (from 16 September 2015) – also trustee of The Heshaim Or Theological College, Baba Sali Trust; Jenny Arwas (from 25 November 2012) – also trustee of Simon Cooper Foundation; Joseph Smouha Kc (from 25 November 2012) – also trustee of The English Concert, The Anav Charitable Trust, Royal Orchestral Society [34]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 36 current and former officers of the charitable company (06350828), 10 of them active.[35] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Elad Shraga (Israel, resigned).[35]

Appointments of these officers to overseas companies registered in the UK (FC) or on the Register of Overseas Entities (OE):

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-09-30 £8,344,910 £8,603,644
2022-09-30 £7,286,218 £9,895,726
2023-09-30 £7,717,264 £8,263,687
2024-09-30 £9,633,260 £8,866,712
2025-09-30 £7,789,022 £8,484,690

Source: register annual-return history.[30]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
30 Sep 2012 6,467,179 6,536,183 [37]
30 Sep 2013 7,457,217 7,359,290 [37]
30 Sep 2014 6,900,295 10,432,999 [37]
30 Sep 2015 5,695,176 6,647,859 [37]
30 Sep 2016 6,583,934 9,485,827 [37]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2014[38]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2015[39]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2016[40]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2017[41]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2018[42]

Funding in Israel

  • FY to 30 Sep 2025: grants to the Hebrew University £2,454,156 plus grants to students £549,800 (total £3,003,956; with support costs £3,219,389). Note 6, PDF p.30. Breakdown (note 9, PDF p.32): designated projects £1,022,746; scholarships £1,328,552; prizes £37,707; Institute for Medical Research £65,867.[43]
  • BFHU also helped secure a further £4.8m (2024: £3.5m) of donations paid directly to the University, which are not in the accounts (PDF p.30). The register's income figure of £7.79m includes these; the statutory SOFA income is £3.04m (PDF p.22). The charity also owns land in Israel valued at £26,000 (PDF p.27).[43]

Israeli partners

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (principal beneficiary); Pears Foundation-funded international Masters scholarships (PDF p.32).[43]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
The Hebrew University's own statement says its Students' Village dormitories and sports centre on Mount Scopus 'are outside the area of the University's 1948–1967 enclave' and that sovereignty there 'is indeed contested', i.e. they lie beyond the 1949 line in East Jerusalem. BFHU's grants go to the University in general, and the campus allocation is not disclosed.[44][43] High (University) / Low (BFHU funds)
Scholarships go partly to 'East Jerusalemite' students. These are beneficiaries, not an activity location.[43] High

Support for the IDF: Context: the IDF Military Intelligence 'Havatzalot' flagship programme includes a BA at the Hebrew University. Research for this profile found no evidence that BFHU funds support it.[45]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • Partner-level issues. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's own statement on its Mount Scopus lands says that sovereignty over the dormitory and sports-centre land "is indeed contested".[44] The university hosts Havatzalot, an IDF Military Intelligence programme whose cadets take a BA at the university.[45] BFHU's accounts do not show whether UK funds go to these facilities or programmes.[43]
  • No Charity Commission regulatory action, Gazette notice or press controversy concerning BFHU itself was found.

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity.[46] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register.[47]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[48]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2004-11-26 The Foyle Foundation 2,500 towards core activity to promote the academic research and development of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2005-09-26 The Foyle Foundation 5,000 towards core activity to promote the academic research and development of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2007-09-24 The Foyle Foundation 5,000 towards core activity to promote academic research and development

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[49]

Sanctions screening

The names of current and archived trustees and Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match on full name was found; only coincidental surname matches. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[50]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[30] Title numbers were not obtained: the HM Land Registry search service blocked automated access and no title registers were purchased.[51] Candidate addresses for a title search:

  • 3rd Floor South, Marlborough House, 298 Regents Park Road, London N3 2SZ – current office; register says the charity owns/leases land (source: register 2026)
  • Supreme House, 300 Regents Park Road, London N3 2JX – former office (2018–21) (source: UKGWA 2018/2021)

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)
American Friends Of The Hebrew University Inc[52] 131568923 2023 84,351,208 70,976,527

These US organisations share the name or beneficiary of the UK charity; no financial flows between them and the UK charity were established.

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'Hebrew University' returned 54 contributions in total; most are general references rather than discussion of the UK charity. Written questions could not be searched (the API timed out).[53]

Web archive

  • bfhu.org: 20 yearly captures, first 2007-02-06, last 2026-01-01.[54]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 6 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[32]

Resources, contact, notes

Resources

  • Stan Cohen A 'colourful past' indeed Carmi Gillon's sinister history of torture means he is no ordinary academic visiting London to lecture and be wined and dined Comment is Free, The Guardian, Thursday 22 November 2007 13.00 GMT Last modified on Monday 9 February 2009 15.10 GMT.

Contact

Notes

  1. ↑ British Friends of the Hebrew University Mission Statement. Accessed 16 December 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 British Friends of the Hebrew University History of the British Friends. Accessed 16 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Stan Cohen A 'colourful past' indeed Carmi Gillon's sinister history of torture means he is no ordinary academic visiting London to lecture and be wined and dined Comment is Free, The Guardian, Thursday 22 November 2007 13.00 GMT Last modified on Monday 9 February 2009 15.10 GMT.
  4. ↑ Board British Friends of the Hebrew University, accessed 16 December 2014
  5. ↑ Elizabeth Pears Hendon charity worker is 'wonderful choice' for MBE Hendon Times, 2 January 2009, accessed 16 December 2014
  6. ↑ Marcus Dysch How community fared honours list The Jewish Chronicle, 31 December 2008, accessed 16 December 2014
  7. ↑ Graham Edwards Companies in the UK, 15 December 2014
  8. ↑ Where One Voice Movement, accessed 15 December 2014
  9. ↑ Alan Philipp Linkedin, accessed 15 December 2014
  10. ↑ Candice Krieger Alan Philipp recognised as a doyen of data publishing The Jewish Chronicle, 10 February 2010, accessed 15 December 2014
  11. ↑ Marc Polonsky Bloomberg Businessweek, accessed 15 December 2014
  12. ↑ Charity details – Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Charity Performance, accessed 15 December 2014
  13. ↑ Elad Shraga Milken Institute, accessed 15 December 2014
  14. ↑ British Friends of the Hebrew University] Open Charity, accessed 16 December 2014
  15. ↑ Bernie Myers Jewish Leadership Council, accessed 15 December 2014
  16. ↑ Howard Paul Shore Company Check, accessed 15 December 2014
  17. ↑ Weizmann Institute Foundation, Final Trustees Report & Annual Accounts 2008 accessed 15 December 2014
  18. ↑ Simon Rocker Ex-trustee turns on Friends of Hebrew U The Jewish Chronicle, 29 May 2008, accessed 15 December 2014
  19. ↑ Simon Rocker Hebrew U donors protest at charges Jewish Chronicle, 6 June 2008, accessed 6 June 2015.
  20. ↑ Presidents and vice-presidents British Friends of the Hebrew University, accessed 16 December 2014
  21. ↑ Rabbi Dr Tony Bayfield Reform Juddaism, accessed 16 December 2014
  22. ↑ Council of patrons British Friends of the Hebrew University, accessed 16 December 2014
  23. ↑ Michael Joseph Gee Company Check, accessed 16 December 2014
  24. ↑ London diners raise £350k for the Board of Deputies The Jewish Chronicle, 26 November 2010, accessed 16 December 2014
  25. ↑ Meet the team British Friends of the Hebrew University, accessed 16 December 2014
  26. ↑ Leonard S Polonsky Bloomberg Businessweek, accessed 16 December 2014
  27. ↑ About us Posen Foundation, accessed 16 December 2014
  28. ↑ Sir Sigmund Sternberg Reform Judaism, accessed 16 December 2014
  29. ↑ Trustees Lord and Lady Wolfson, accessed 16 December 2014
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  31. ↑ Register entry 209691, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Register entry 209691, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  33. ↑ Register entry 209691, full print (capture of 20260106) UK Government Web Archive.
  34. ↑ Register entry 209691, full print (capture of 20260702) UK Government Web Archive.
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 Company 06350828: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  36. ↑ MYERS, Bernard Ian: appointments Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 37.4 Register entry 209691, financial history (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
  38. ↑ British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2014-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  39. ↑ British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2015-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  40. ↑ British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2016-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  41. ↑ British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2017-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  42. ↑ British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2018-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 43.3 43.4 43.5 Charity Commission, British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (209691): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus lands Hebrew University.
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 Havatzalot programme, Havatzalot (accessed 2026).
  46. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Search the Scottish Charity Register OSCR, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches by charity name).
  47. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search results CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (searches for the charity names and for 'Israel', 'Jewish', 'Magen', 'Weizmann').
  48. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Hebrew University' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  49. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-209691 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  50. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV, version of 12 October 2026); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv, last updated 3 June 2026). Screening of 602 names (current and archived trustees and Companies House officers of the 20 pilot charities) carried out 14 October 2026.
  51. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access on 14 October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased.
  52. ↑ American Friends Of The Hebrew University Inc – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 14 October 2026.
  53. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: spoken contributions matching 'Hebrew University' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026.
  54. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for bfhu.org Wayback Machine, queried 14 October 2026.
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