Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Limited
Mizrahi Tefahot Bank 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
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| Type | Overseas entity (Register of Overseas Entities) |
| Founded | 22 Mar 2023 |
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| Headquarters | 7 Jabotinsky, Ramat Gan, EC2N 1HQ, Israel |
| Industry | n/a (overseas company/entity – no SIC) |
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- Category: A / B / R / T (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; documented activity in the occupied territories (entity or parent group)); connection score 6
- Company number: OE028769[1]
- Status: Registered
- Type: Overseas entity (Register of Overseas Entities)
- Incorporated / registered: 22 Mar 2023
- SIC: n/a (overseas company/entity – no SIC)
- Registered office: 7 Jabotinsky, Ramat Gan, EC2N 1HQ, Israel
- Overseas registration (CH): parent registry Israel Corporations Authority, Israel; registration number 520000522; legal form Public limited company
- Listing / market cap: Listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (MZTF.TA), ≈ US$19.6bn.[2]
Israel connection:
- Registered on the CH Register of Overseas Entities; registered office in Israel (CH).
- Registrable beneficial owner(s) with Israeli service addresses: Drorit Wertheim (Bnei Atarot); David Wertheim (Bnei Brak); CIBC Caribbean Bank and Trust Company (Cayman) Limited (Cayman Islands) (CH).
- The bank says its controlling shareholders, the Ofer and Wertheim groups, hold about 41.47% of its shares, and that it has foreign branches in London and Los Angeles.[3] Globes reported in 2013 that Moshe Wertheim had handed his 22.3% controlling stake to his children, David and Drorit,[4] the two individuals CH lists as beneficial owners.
- The bank's London establishment is profiled separately as Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Limited (UK establishment; London branch BR001446) (FC011504).
Persons with significant control (CH):[1]
- Drorit Wertheim (active) — address: Bnei Atarot, Bnei Atarot, 6099100, Israel; notified 10 Dec 2019; nature of control: ownership of shares – more than 25%; voting rights – more than 25%; significant influence or control
- David Wertheim (active) — address: Harav Kahanman Street, Bnei Brak, 5155366, Israel; notified 10 Dec 2019; nature of control: ownership of shares – more than 25%; voting rights – more than 25%; significant influence or control
- CIBC Caribbean Bank and Trust Company (Cayman) Limited (active) — address: P.O. Box 694, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY1-1107, Cayman Islands; legal form Limited company; governing law Cayman Islands; registered at Cayman Islands General Registry, Cayman Islands; registration number Cr-2439; country registered Cayman Islands; notified 8 Aug 2008; nature of control: ownership of shares more than 25 percent (as trustee); voting rights more than 25 percent (as trustee); significant influence or control (as trustee)
- 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 3 title(s) in England and Wales under this proprietor name or number: Parking Space 57, Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London (EC2N 1HQ) (leasehold, title AGL368084, added 15-02-2016); First Floor and Basement Premises, 30 Old Broad Street, London (EC2N 1HT) (leasehold, title AGL352869, added 26-08-2015); Unit 3, 30 Old Broad Street, London (EC2N 1HT) (leasehold, title AGL458741, added 24-10-2018).[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: None documented in the sources reviewed.
Activities in the occupied territories: Parent company listed in the OHCHR database (2020 and 2025).[6][7] Who Profits lists the bank for Israeli construction on occupied land and services to the settlements.[8] Human Rights Watch (2018) documented its role in financing settlement construction.[9]
Links to the Israeli government: None documented in the sources reviewed.
WZO / JNF / Jewish Agency / Keren Hayesod: None found in the sources reviewed.
Controversies (protests, legal cases, export-licence rulings):
- None found.
See also
- UK companies linked to 'Israel'
- UK Companies with Address or Ownership Links to Israel - Alphabetical
- UK Companies with Address or Ownership Links to Israel - Ranked by density of connection
- UK Companies with documented links to business activity in the Occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Golan
- UK defence, security, surveillance and dual-use technology companies with documented business ties to 'Israel'
- UK companies linked to 'Israel': Methodology
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Companies House, Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Limited (OE028769): company overview Find and update company information (GOV.UK).
- ↑ CompaniesMarketCap, Mizrahi-Tefahot (MZTF.TA) – market capitalization companiesmarketcap.com, October 2026.
- ↑ Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank, Overview mizrahi-tefahot.co.il, accessed 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Globes, Mozi Wertheim gifts Mizrahi Tefahot stake to his children Globes, 17 February 2013.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD), October 2026 file HM Land Registry Use land and property data.
- ↑ UN Human Rights Council, Database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the independent international fact-finding mission (A/HRC/43/71) United Nations, 28 February 2020.
- ↑ UN Human Rights Council, Database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent international fact-finding mission (A/HRC/60/19, advance edited version) Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 26 September 2025.
- ↑ Who Profits Research Center, Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Who Profits, accessed 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Human Rights Watch, Bankrolling Abuse: Israeli Banks in West Bank Settlements Human Rights Watch, 29 May 2018.