Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust
Golders Green family trust whose area of benefit is "primarily ... the United Kingdom and Israel"; it spent £62,885 in 2024/25 without naming recipients
| Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Other |
| Founded | 2000-12-08 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1084046 |
| Headquarters | London NW11 |
| Area served | Israel |
The Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust is a UK registered charity (no. 1084046) that supports Tiferes Zvi, an orthodox Jewish religious charity that operates in the illegal West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit.[1] [2] [3]
History
The organisation became a registered charity on the 8th of December 2000.[4]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "(A) THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST FUND ARE TO APPLY THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE (B) THE AREA OF BENEFIT OF THE TRUST SHALL PRIMARILY BE THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ISRAEL BUT THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION PROMOTE THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST ELSEWHERE."[5]
The register describes its activities as: "-The objects of the trust fund are to apply the capital and income of the Trust fund towards such charitable institution or institutions as the trustees shall in their absolute discretion determine.-The area of benefit of the Trust shall primarily be the United kingdom and israel but the Trustees may in their discretion promote the objects of the trust elsewhere."[5]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[5]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[5]
Finances and Funding
Between 2011 and 2015 the charity spent £327,825.[2]
Latest figures (Charity Commission register)
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-31 | £46,606 | £51,500 |
| 2022-01-31 | £46,608 | £46,369 |
| 2023-01-31 | £80,368 | £74,007 |
| 2024-01-31 | £76,623 | £62,132 |
| 2025-01-31 | £44,416 | £62,885 |
Source: register annual-return history.[5]
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2015[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2016[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2017[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2018[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2019[10]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2020[11]
People
Board of Directors circa July 2015
Jacob Hager | Berisch Hager | Channah Hager | Leah Caro
Current trustees (Charity Commission register, October 2026)
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[5]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leah Caro | not recorded | — | |
| Jacob Hager | not recorded | — | |
| Berisch Hager | not recorded | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-08 | Berisch Hager; Channah Hager; Jacob Hager; Leah Caro | [12] |
Funding in Israel
- Year to 31 January 2025: charitable spending of £62,885; no recipient or place is named.[13]
Israeli partners
No Israeli partner is named. The governing document gives Israel as part of the area of benefit.[13]
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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named.[13] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[13]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[14] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[15][16][17][18] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[19]
- Recipients not named and late filing. The accounts do not name any grant recipient, and the register records the 2025 accounts as received 10 days late.[13][20]
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[21] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[22]
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.[23]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[24]
Sanctions screening
The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found.[25]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[5] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[26]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust", "Tiferes Tzvi Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[27]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 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".[12]
Contact
- Address circa July 2015:
- 22 Elmcroft Crescent
- London
- NW11 9SY
- Phone: 020 8455 6389
Notes
- ↑ Tiferes Zvi Website Tiferes Zvi Institutions. Accessed 4 July 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Charity Commission Website Charity Overview. Accessed 4 July 2015.
- ↑ B'Tselem Website Statistics. Accessed 4 July 2015.
- ↑ Charity Commission Website Charity Framework. Accessed 4 July 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2019-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
- ↑ Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2020-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Register entry 1084046, full print (capture of 20210108) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Charity Commission, Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust (1084046): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-23 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none was shown.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
- ↑ Charity Commission, Tiferes Zvi Charitable Trust (1084046): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-23 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-23 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Tiferes Zvi' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1084046 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-23 screening covered 249 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and other people named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words (such as "Trust", "Company Limited" in the name of a corporate formation agent, and ".com") and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Tiferes Zvi" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).