Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation

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London trust supporting Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, the hesder yeshiva that combines Torah study with IDF service; it made no grants in 2024/25

Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation

Logo Yeshivat Kerem BYavneh exterior 2025.jpg
Type Trust
Founded 1966-09-21 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 313687
Headquarters PO Box 68038, London, NW4 9JL
Area served Throughout London, Manchester City, Israel
Website www.kby.org


Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation (also registered as "K B Y") is a trust established by a deed of 25 July 1966 and registered on 21 September 1966; its objects are "to support, promote and foster the institution of religious and vocational training known as Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh in Israel", and its register areas are London, Manchester and Israel.[1] The trustees are David Frei, David Morris and Joe Bauernfreund; the principal address is PO Box 68038, London NW4 9JL, and the independent examiner is Anthony Epstein FCA of Paragon Partners (PDF p.2).[1][2] In the year to 5 April 2025 donations were £95,499 (2024: £112,797) and no grants were made (2024: £100,000, recipient not named); the surplus of £86,429 was "due to no grant funding activities", and funds rose to £164,380 (PDF p.4, 7, 12).[2] Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh describes its "Hesder" programme as combining Torah study with service in the Israel Defense Forces.[3]

Objects and activities

The study hall of Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh (December 2025)

The charity's registered objects read: "TO PROMOTE EDUCATION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH AND IN PARTICULAR TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN OR CONTRIBUTE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OR MAINTENANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE RELIGIOUS TRAINING OF JEWISH YOUTH."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To support, promote and foster the institution for religious and vocational training known as Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Manchester City, Israel.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
David Frei 2013-02-06 —
David Morris 2013-02-06 British Friends of Ariel University (1002872); Friends of Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine (1203579); Mizrachi (UK) Israel Support Trust (1137199); The Kadima Foundation (801061)
Joe Bauernfreund 2014-03-30 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-13 Conrad Morris; Nathaniel Allan Bauernfreund; Philip David Weinstein [4]
2013-01-04 Conrad Morris; Nathaniel Allan Bauernfreund; Philip David Weinstein [5]
2021-01-06 Joe Bauernfreund (from 30 March 2014); David Frei (from 06 February 2013); David Morris (from 06 February 2013) – also trustee of British Friends of Ariel University, British Friends of Lilmod Velaasos College [6]

The accounts give the trustees as D Morris, S D Frei and J Bauernfreund; the report was approved on 22 January 2026 by S D Frei (PDF p.2, 4).[2]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-05 £54,779 £80,864
2022-04-05 £47,482 £939
2023-04-05 £75,758 £64,508
2024-04-05 £112,797 £111,375
2025-04-05 £95,499 £9,070

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2006[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2007[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2008[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2009[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2010[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2011[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2014[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[16]

Funding in Israel

  • No grants in the year to 5 April 2025; 2024 grants to institutions £100,000, recipient not named (PDF p.4, 12).[2]

Israeli partners

Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, named in the charity's objects.[1] The yeshiva's history page says it was built on land allocated by the Jewish National Fund in 1941, that the building served in 1948 as a forward post with a "commanding view of the coastal plain", and that it opened in 1954 under Rav Chayim Yaakov Goldvicht; its Israeli postal address is Doar Na Evtach.[3]

Support for the Israeli military

Grants (programme). The charity made grants of £100,000 in the year to 5 April 2024 (recipient not named) and none in 2024/25.[2] The yeshiva it supports runs a hesder programme.[3] Hesder yeshivot combine religious study with service in the Israel Defense Forces; the yeshiva's history page says that "Hesder students ... usually serve in the most critical areas, such as paratroops or one of the elite infantry brigades".[3] The UK accounts do not say that any funds were used for military purposes.[2] (Partner finding.)

Prior scrutiny. No Charity Commission inquiry or Official Warning, and no complaint or report by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, the Islamic Human Rights Commission or Declassified UK, concerning this charity's support for soldiers was found (checked October 2026).

Activity beyond the Green Line

Buildings of Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh (2016), the hesder yeshiva the foundation exists to support

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 yeshiva's own history places it overlooking the coastal plain, with a postal address at Doar Na Evtach; nothing in the sources places it beyond the Green Line.[3] Medium (partner)

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;[17] 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.[18][19][20][21] 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.[22]
  • Funds held back. No grants were paid in 2024/25 while £8,350 of other administration costs and £720 of accountancy fees were charged; the 2024 grants of £100,000 are not attributed to any recipient (PDF p.7, 12).[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).[23] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[24]

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.[25]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[26]

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.[27]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[28]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Kerem B'Yavneh", "Kerem Byavneh" returned 0 contributions in total.[29]

Web archive

  • kby.org: 11 yearly captures, first 2000-04-19, last 2024-07-26.[30]

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".[6]

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 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.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Charity Commission, Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation (313687): 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 Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, History kby.org, viewed 16 October 2026.
  4. ↑ Register entry 313687, contact and trustees (capture of 20100713) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 313687, contact and trustees (capture of 20130104) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Register entry 313687, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation accounts, year ended 2006-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110712).
  8. ↑ Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation accounts, year ended 2007-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110712).
  9. ↑ Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation accounts, year ended 2008-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110712).
  10. ↑ Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation accounts, year ended 2009-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110712).
  11. ↑ Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation accounts, year ended 2010-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110712).
  12. ↑ Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation accounts, year ended 2011-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120906).
  13. ↑ Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  14. ↑ Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  15. ↑ Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  16. ↑ Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  17. ↑ 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-18 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Sixteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the Porter Foundation showed "up to date (1 day late)", The Persian Hebrew Community "up to date (48 days late)", Bernard Kahn Charitable Trust "up to date (33 days late)" and the Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; Jassiane Limited showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 623 days"; The Friends of Birzeit University, The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls and John Hagee Ministries showed "Removed charity".
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  21. ↑ 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).
  22. ↑ 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").
  23. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-18 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  24. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-18 charity names returned no matching charity).
  25. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Kerem B'Yavneh' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  26. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-313687 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  27. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-18 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the seven charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees, subsidiaries and other people and bodies named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Weiss, Cohen, Salem and Tauber) or generic words such as "Foundation", "Aid" and "People"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  28. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
  29. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Kerem B'Yavneh" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  30. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for kby.org Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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