UK Friends of Keren Tzlach

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North-west London trust that funds Keren Tzlach, an organisation in Israel, and needy families there; its 2024/25 accounts were also filed under another charity, Keren Eretz Yisroel

UK Friends of Keren Tzlach

Type Other
Founded 2005-08-04 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1110715
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Israel
Key people Benjamin Chontow (chair)


UK Friends of Keren Tzlach is a charitable trust registered on 4 August 2005; the register records a declaration of trust dated 7 July 2005, while the accounts give a trust deed dated 7 July 2006.[1][2] Its address is in London NW11 and its only recorded area of operation is Israel.[3][2][1] Its objects are "the relief of the poor sick and feeble in Israel and in particular (but not exclusively) by providing financial assistance for the charitable activities of the organisation in Israel known as Keren Tzlach".[1] The trustees are Benjamin Chontow (chair) and Jack Jacob Emanuel (from 31 May 2013), each of whom the register shows as a trustee of three or four other charities.[3] In the receipts and payments accounts for the year to 31 March 2025 (a period headed "04/01/2024 To 31/03/2025"), donations were £35,510 (2024: £18,290) and interest £2; payments were "Grants to Keren Tzlach, Israel" £17,500 (2024: £20,000), general grants £16,800 (2024: £7,400), bank charges £118 and bookkeeping £372, a total of £34,790, and cash rose from £6,041 to £6,763.[2] The report says funds were distributed "primarily to needy persons in Israel" and that "grants are made to families suffering from sickness or poverty".[2] The accounts were examined by Jeremy Neuberger and signed by B Chontow on 26 January 2026.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE THE RELIEF OF THE POOR SICK AND FEEBLE IN ISRAEL AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANISATION (KEREN TZLACH).3.2 THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH OF THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE INCLUDING PAYMENTS BY WAY OF GIFT OR LOAN (WHETHER WITH OR WITHOUT INTEREST AND WHETHER SECURED OR NOT) TO THE ORGANISATION (KEREN TZLACH) FOR THE PURPOSES OF ITS CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AS DEFINED BY ENGLISH LAW."[3]

The register describes its activities as: "The object of this charity is to provide relief for the poor, sick and feeble in Israel and in particular (but not exclusively) by providing financial assistance for the charitable activities of the organisation in Israel known as Keren Tzlach."[3]

Register classifications: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[3]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[3]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[3]

Trustees of UK Friends of Keren Tzlach (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Benjamin Chontow not recorded Yes Friends of B'ezri (1203939); The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust (265804); The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust (266098); Yad Eliezer Trust (1115426)
Jack Jacob Emanuel 2013-05-31 Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr (1108790); Friends of Yeshivat Meor Hatalmud (1102117); The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust (265804); The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust (266098)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-06 Jack Jacob Emanuel (from 31 May 2013) – also trustee of The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust, Support, Friends of Baranovich, Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr; Benjamin Chontow (chair) – also trustee of The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust, The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust, Yad Eliezer Trust [4]
2021-07-06 Benjamin Chontow (chair) – also trustee of The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust, The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust, Yad Eliezer Trust; Jack Jacob Emanuel (from 31 May 2013) – also trustee of The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust, Support, Friends of Baranovich, Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr [5]

Benjamin Chontow is also a register trustee of Friends of B'ezri (1203939), The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust (265804), The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust (266098) and Yad Eliezer Trust (1115426); Jack Jacob Emanuel is also a trustee of Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr (1108790), Friends of Yeshivat Meor Hatalmud (1102117) and the Bnei Torah and Neve Yerushalayim trusts.[3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £25,311 £27,626
2022-03-31 £21,123 £30,189
2023-03-31 £31,672 £22,882
2024-03-31 £18,291 £27,896
2025-03-31 £35,512 £34,790

Source: register annual-return history.[3]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[10]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to 31 March 2025: "Grants to Keren Tzlach, Israel" £17,500 (2024: £20,000) and "General Grants" £16,800 (2024: £7,400); the report says grants go to families suffering from sickness or poverty, mainly in Israel.[2]

Israeli partners

Keren Tzlach, described in the objects as "the organisation in Israel known as Keren Tzlach"; no address or activity is given in the accounts.[1][2]

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 accounts and register name only the country ("Keren Tzlach, Israel").[2][1] Not established (country only)

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]
  • Same accounts filed under another charity. The document filed for 2024/25 under Keren Eretz Yisroel (1112935) is headed "UK FRIENDS OF KEREN TZLACH" and gives charity number 1110715 – the same accounts as those filed by this charity.[17][2]
  • Period heading. The accounts cover the year to 31 March 2025 but print the period as "04/01/2024 To 31/03/2025".[2]

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).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]

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.[20]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[21]

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.[22]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[3] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[23]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "UK Friends of Keren Tzlach", "Keren Tzlach" returned 0 contributions in total.[24]

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".[4]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Charity Commission, UK Friends of Keren Tzlach (1110715): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Charity Commission, UK Friends of Keren Tzlach (1110715): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 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.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1110715, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1110715, full print (capture of 20210706) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ UK Friends of Keren Tzlach accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ UK Friends of Keren Tzlach accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ UK Friends of Keren Tzlach accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  9. ↑ UK Friends of Keren Tzlach accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  10. ↑ UK Friends of Keren Tzlach accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  11. ↑ 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-25 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none showed one.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  15. ↑ 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).
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Keren Eretz Yisroel (1112935): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; the document filed for the year to 31 March 2025, downloaded 16 October 2026, is headed "UK FRIENDS OF KEREN TZLACH" and gives charity number 1110715.
  18. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-25 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-25 charity names returned zero results).
  20. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Keren Tzlach' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1110715 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-25 screening covered 459 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers, examiners and other people and organisations named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, every person and organisation linked in the profiles, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of the related companies Renco Properties, Conlatuse and Landmead; the only hits were generic words (the word "QA" in the names of corporate formation agents) and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Keren Tzlach" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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