El Al Israel Airlines Limited

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El Al Israel Airlines Limited is a company on the UK Companies House register with address or ownership links to Israel. This profile is part of UK companies linked to 'Israel'; see UK companies linked to 'Israel': Methodology for how companies were selected and scored.

Profile

El Al Israel Airlines Limited
Trade name
Logo El Al Israel Airlines Limited logo.png
Type Overseas entity (Register of Overseas Entities)
Founded 5 Jun 2023
Founder(s)
Defunct
Headquarters PO Box 41 Ben Gurion Airport, Lod, 7015001, Israel
Industry n/a (overseas company/entity – no SIC)
Services
Parent Eli Rozenberg
Subsidiaries
Revenue
Number of employees
Homepage elal.co.il
  • Category: A / B / R (Israeli entity on the UK register (overseas company or overseas entity) with an Israeli registered address; individual PSC or registrable beneficial owner with an Israeli service address; real estate); connection score 6
  • Company number: OE030003[1]
  • Status: Registered
  • Type: Overseas entity (Register of Overseas Entities)
  • Incorporated / registered: 5 Jun 2023
  • SIC: n/a (overseas company/entity – no SIC)
  • Registered office: PO Box 41 Ben Gurion Airport, Lod, 7015001, Israel
  • Overseas registration (CH): parent registry Israel Corporations Authority, Israel; registration number 520017146; legal form Limited company
  • Listing / market cap: Listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (ELAL.TA), ≈ US$3.61bn.[2]

Israel connection:

  • Registered on the CH Register of Overseas Entities; registered office in Israel (CH).
  • Registrable beneficial owner(s) with Israeli service addresses: Eli Rozenberg (Lod) (CH).
  • Eli Rozenberg's company Kanfei Nesharim bought control of El Al in 2020; The Times of Israel reported that he was granted the controlling-stake permit.[3][4]
  • The same company's UK establishment is profiled separately as "El Al" Israel Airlines Limited (FC004087).

Persons with significant control (CH):[1]

  • Eli Rozenberg (active) — address: Ben Gurion Airport, Lod, 7015001, Israel; notified 18 May 2021; nature of control: ownership of shares – more than 25%; voting rights – more than 25%
  • Statement: all beneficial owners identified
  • Statement: nobody has become or ceased to be a beneficial owner since the last update

Directors / managing officers (CH): none listed on the public register for this overseas entity; see the registrable beneficial owners above.[1]

Latest accounts (income/expenditure): None. Overseas entities file no accounts at CH.

UK land and property: HM Land Registry (OCOD, Oct 2026) lists 2 title(s) in England and Wales under this proprietor name or number: Cip Lounge Premises, First Floor Level 10 Departures Terminal 4, London Heathrow Airport, Hounslow (leasehold, title AGL396733, added 29-11-2016); Ground Floor Commercial Premises, Blackburn House, Blackburn Road, London (NW6 1RZ) (leasehold, title NGL949504, added 03-03-2015).[5]

Arms trade involvement: None documented. The company's stated business is not in the arms trade.

Supply to the IDF / Israel MOD / Israeli security services: In October 2023 El Al added flights to bring Israeli army reservists back for the war in Gaza, and flew on the Sabbath for the first time since 1982.[6][7] Mondoweiss reports that Israeli aviation security abroad is set by the Shin Bet and carried out by El Al's security department.[8]

Activities in the occupied territories: None documented in the sources reviewed; not listed by Who Profits or the OHCHR database.

Links to the Israeli government: The Times of Israel reported in October 2023 that the Knesset was preparing state war-insurance guarantees for Israeli airlines, including El Al.[7]

WZO / JNF / Jewish Agency / Keren Hayesod: None found in the sources reviewed.

Controversies (protests, legal cases, export-licence rulings):

  • The Times of Israel reported public anger at high fares while the airline made record profits during the war.[9]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Companies House, El Al Israel Airlines Limited (OE030003): company overview Find and update company information (GOV.UK).
  2. ↑ CompaniesMarketCap, El Al Israel Airlines (ELAL.TA) – market capitalization companiesmarketcap.com, October 2026.
  3. ↑ Globes, Eli Rozenberg buys control of El Al Globes, 2020.
  4. ↑ The Times of Israel, 27-year-old yeshiva student officially granted controlling stake in El Al The Times of Israel.
  5. ↑ HM Land Registry, Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD), October 2026 file HM Land Registry Use land and property data.
  6. ↑ Reuters, Israel's El Al to fly home army reservists on Jewish Sabbath Reuters, 12 October 2023.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sharon Wrobel, In first in 41 years, El Al to fly on Saturday to bring reservists back to Israel The Times of Israel, 12 October 2023.
  8. ↑ Hebh Jamal, Israel's national airline El Al is an intelligence front for the Shin Bet Mondoweiss, 30 August 2023.
  9. ↑ The Times of Israel, El Al reports record profits amid war, as Israeli public decries high prices The Times of Israel.