Israel Charity Bot: New profile: UK charity operating in Israel (batch 14)

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New profile: UK charity operating in Israel (batch 14)

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{{short description|'''London trust whose single grant of £96,400 went to the Israel Cancer Association, funded mainly by a legacy'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Friends of the Israel Cancer Association
| type = Trust
| registration_id = Registered charity 260710
| founded = 1970-02-24 (registered)
| headquarters = Payne Hicks Beach, 10 New Square, London, WC2A 3QG
| area_served = Israel
| key_people = [[Vered Aaron]] (chair)
| revenue = £158,753 (year to 2025-04-05)
| logo = [[File:Beit_Mati_Givatayim_Israel_Cancer_Association_2014.jpg|200px]]
}}

'''[[Friends of the Israel Cancer Association]]''' was registered on 24 February 1970 under a trust deed of 16 February 1970; its only register area is Israel.<ref name="EXTRACT">[[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.</ref><ref name="ACC">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/260710/accounts-and-annual-returns Friends of the Israel Cancer Association (260710): accounts and annual returns] ''Register of Charities''; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).</ref> Its trustees are [[Vered Aaron]] (chair), [[Lesley Khalastchi]], [[Homa Alliance|Lady Homa Alliance]] and [[Martin David Paisner]] CBE; its office is c/o the solicitors [[Payne Hicks Beach]] at Lincoln's Inn (PDF p.3).<ref name="EXTRACT" /><ref name="ACC" /> Its objects are the relief of people with cancer "without prejudice to the generality ... to the institution known as The Israel Cancer Association", whose support "takes priority in the making of grants" (PDF p.4). In the year to 5 April 2025 income was £158,753 (2024: £40,290), including a £90,000 legacy from the estate of Mrs A R Helman and fundraising events of £53,170; expenditure was £114,334 and funds £87,469 (PDF p.4, 7, 10).<ref name="ACC" />

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "A) THE RELIEF OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM CANCER OR ANY SIMILAR OR RELATED DISEASE WHETHER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE BY PROVIDING MEDICAL FINANCIAL AND OTHER ASSISTANCE FOR THEM AND PROVIDING FINANCIAL RELIEF FOR SUCH OF THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN NEED; AND (B) PROJECTS OF CANCER RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS THEREOF WHETHER CARRIED OUT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE BY PROVIDING GRANTS ENDOWMENTS FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS THEREFOR AND IN PARTICULAR TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN OR CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE ESTABLISHMENT AND/OR MAINTENANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OF INSTITUTIONS WHETHER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE INSTITUTION KNOWN AS THE ISRAEL CANCER ASSOCIATION"<ref name="EXTRACT" />

The register describes its activities as: "Raising funds to assist the Israel Cancer Association in its research, rehabilitation and education programmes."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Overseas Aid/famine Relief.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Trustees ==
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:<ref name="EXTRACT" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Trustees of Friends of the Israel Cancer Association (register, October 2026)
! Trustee !! Appointed !! Chair !! Other trusteeships
|-
| [[Vered Aaron]] || not recorded || Yes || —
|-
| [[Lesley Khalastchi]] || 2009-06-19 || || [[British Friends of the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel Hashomer]] (1108623)
|-
| [[Homa Alliance]] || 2019-07-01 || || [[Alliance Family Foundation Limited]] (258721)
|-
| [[Martin Paisner CBE Ma Llm]] || 2021-03-01 || || [[Devonshire Street Charitable Foundation]] (1123295); [[Hadassah Medical Relief Association U.K.]] (1040848); [[Janet Wolfson de Botton Charitable Trust]] (1054068); [[Morris Leigh Foundation]] (280695); [[Teale Charitable Trust]] (1058734); [[The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (UK ) Trust]] (327543); [[The Barnett and Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust]] (281821); [[The Bluston Charitable Settlement]] (256691); [[The Cissie Rosefield Charitable Trust]] (293177); [[The Denise Cohen Charitable Trust]] (276439); [[The Lily and Marcus Sieff Charitable Trust]] (257824); [[The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust]] (1156856); [[The Potel Charitable Trust]] (326513); [[The Rosenblatt Family Charitable Trust]] (1084907); [[The Ruth and Jack Lunzer Charitable Trust]] (276201); [[The Schmidt-Bodner Charitable Trust]] (283014); [[The Shirley Young Charitable Trust]] (283841); [[The Sir Sigmund Sternberg Charitable Foundation]] (257950); [[The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust]] (220441); [[The Stuart Young Foundation]] (296318); [[The Sybil Shine Memorial Trust]] (270025); [[The Weizmann Institute Foundation]] (232666); [[The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust]] (228382); [[Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust]] (1150037); [[Yoni Jesner Foundation]] (1094798)
|}

=== Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees shown in archived register pages
! Capture date !! Trustees listed !! Source
|-
| 2010-07-14 || [[Stephan Wingate]]; [[Vered Aaron]]; [[Jonathan Morris Lesley Khalastchi]] || <ref name="uce383498">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100714073632/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/SHOWCHARITY/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=260710&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Register entry 260710, contact and trustees (capture of 20100714)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|-
| 2010-07-15 || [[Stephan Wingate]]; [[Vered Aaron]]; [[Jonathan Morris Lesley Khalastchi]] || <ref name="u065d26fa">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100715110250/https://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/SHOWCHARITY/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=260710&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Register entry 260710, contact and trustees (capture of 20100715)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|-
| 2021-01-16 || [[Vered Aaron]] (chair) – also trustee of [[British Friends of the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel Hashomer]]; [[Marc Daniel Traube]] (from 20 January 2020); [[Homa Alliance]] (from 01 July 2019); [[Lesley Khalastchi]] (from 19 June 2009) – also trustee of [[British Friends of the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel Hashomer]] || <ref name="u7b52d64a">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210116215717/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/260710/full-print Register entry 260710, full print (capture of 20210116)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|-
| 2021-07-03 || [[Martin Paisner]] (from 01 March 2021) – also trustee of [[The Lily and Marcus Sieff Charitable Trust]], [[Ben Gurion University Foundation]], [[The Stuart Young Foundation]], [[New Israel Fund]], [[Holocaust Educational Trust]], [[The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation]], [[The Rayman Hanbury Charitable Trust]], [[Ohel Sarah UK]], [[The Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation]], [[British Friends of Edith Wolfson Hospital]], [[Shaare Zedek UK]], [[The Phillips Family Charitable Trust]], [[Teale Charitable Trust]]; [[Vered Aaron]] (chair) – also trustee of [[British Friends of the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel Hashomer]]; [[Marc Daniel Traube]] (from 20 January 2020); [[Homa Alliance]] (from 01 July 2019); [[Lesley Khalastchi]] (from 19 June 2009) – also trustee of [[British Friends of the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel Hashomer]] || <ref name="u7046afc3">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210703234720/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/260710/full-print Register entry 260710, full print (capture of 20210703)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|}

Lesley Khalastchi is also a register trustee of British Friends of the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel Hashomer (1108623); Lady Homa Alliance of Alliance Family Foundation Limited (258721); Martin Paisner of 25 other charities, including The Weizmann Institute Foundation (232666), Hadassah Medical Relief Association U.K. (1040848) and The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (UK) Trust (327543).<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2021-04-05 || £3,825 || £839
|-
| 2022-04-05 || £330 || £1,010
|-
| 2023-04-05 || £6,257 || £4,276
|-
| 2024-04-05 || £40,290 || £42,037
|-
| 2025-04-05 || £158,753 || £114,334
|}
Source: register annual-return history.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

=== Archived accounts ===
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the [[UK Government Web Archive]]:
* Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2014<ref name="u9135b2d9">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200105151252/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends10/0000260710_AC_20140405_E_C.PDF Friends of the Israel Cancer Association accounts, year ended 2014-04-05] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200105).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015<ref name="uf50755b8">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200105150427/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends10/0000260710_AC_20150405_E_C.PDF Friends of the Israel Cancer Association accounts, year ended 2015-04-05] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200105).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016<ref name="u88833bb8">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200105151249/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends10/0000260710_AC_20160405_E_C.PDF Friends of the Israel Cancer Association accounts, year ended 2016-04-05] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200105).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2019<ref name="u0d879c2a">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200702073100/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends10/0000260710_AC_20190405_E_C.PDF Friends of the Israel Cancer Association accounts, year ended 2019-04-05] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200702).</ref>

== Funding in Israel ==
* FY2025: "one grant totalling £96,400 to the Israel Cancer Association (2023/24: two grants totalling £39,036)" (PDF p.10).<ref name="ACC" />

=== Israeli partners ===
The [[Israel Cancer Association]], founded in 1952, which funds research, patient support and the "construction and renovation of medical centers across the country", with "about 70 ICA branches dispersed throughout the country".<ref name="ICA_ABOUT">Israel Cancer Association, [https://en.cancer.org.il/template_e/default.aspx?PageId=7873 About ICA] ''en.cancer.org.il'', retrieved 16 October 2026 (established 1952; "Thousands of volunteers are active in about 70 ICA branches dispersed throughout the country"; activities include funding research, patient support and "construction and renovation of medical centers across the country").</ref>

== 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.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
! Finding !! Confidence
|-
| Partner: the Israel Cancer Association works through about 70 branches nationwide; whether any are beyond the 1949 armistice line, or what the UK grant paid for, is not stated.<ref name="ICA_ABOUT" /><ref name="ACC" /> || Not established
|}

'''Support for the IDF:''' No IDF or military funding is stated.<ref name="ACC" />

== 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 (its latest accounts were received 13 days late);<ref name="ALERTS">[[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-14 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Friends of the Israel Cancer Association showed "up to date (13 days late)" and The Bertie Black Foundation "up to date (82 days late)"; British Friends of Neve Shalom, Mesila UK, The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions and Etz Chaim Foundation showed "Removed charity".</ref> 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.<ref name="CC_CHEQUE1">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/serious-concerns-over-use-of-22-million-triggers-investigation-by-charity-regulator Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator] ''GOV.UK'', 14 May 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE2">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-opens-next-phase-of-investigation-into-105-charities-connected-to-company-cashing-cheques Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques] ''GOV.UK'', 1 September 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE3">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-announces-next-charities-to-be-investigated-as-part-of-inquiry-connected-to-company-cashing-cheques Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques] ''GOV.UK'', 4 December 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE4">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-concludes-investigation-into-4-charities-as-class-inquiry-continues Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues] ''GOV.UK'', 9 September 2026, with [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-the-results-of-a-class-inquiry/statement-of-the-results-of-a-class-inquiry Statement of the results of a class inquiry] (same date).</ref> 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.<ref name="CC_SETTLE">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/charity-regulator-opens-inquiry-into-charities-working-in-illegal-israeli-settlements 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").</ref>
* '''Donation from a trustee's family company.''' £10,000 came from One Shakespeare Limited, "a company significantly controlled by a close family member of trustee Vered Aaron"; three trustees also donated (PDF p.10).<ref name="ACC" />

== Other registers and records ==
=== Scotland and Northern Ireland ===
No entry was found on the [[Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator|Scottish Charity Register]] for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).<ref name="OSCR">[[Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator]], [https://www.oscr.org.uk/download/charity-register Scottish Charity Register download] ''OSCR'', export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-14 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.</ref> No entry was found on the [[Charity Commission for Northern Ireland]] register (API name searches returned zero results).<ref name="CCNI">[[Charity Commission for Northern Ireland]], [https://www.charitycommissionni.org.uk/api/charity-search/results?searchText=Sellata&pageNumber=1 Register of charities search API] ''CCNI'', searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-14 charity names returned zero results).</ref>

=== 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.<ref name="u8bb7b54f">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=Israel%20Cancer%20Association The Gazette: notices matching 'Israel Cancer Association'] ''The Gazette'', searched 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== Grants recorded by 360Giving ===
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.<ref name="ubdd640c0">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-260710/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-260710] ''360Giving'', queried 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== 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. [[Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor]] (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.<ref name="SANC">[[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]], ''UK Sanctions List'' (CSV); [[Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation]], ''Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets'' (ConList.csv). Batch-14 screening covered 282 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, directors of the dissolved Etz Chaim Foundation company and of Mesila UK Limited, related companies and charities named in the accounts (including Bestgreat Ltd, Jonvan Properties, One Shakespeare Limited, Beauland Limited, Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited and Torah Temimah Trust) and trustees, examiners and donors named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person or company was found; the only token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Cohen and Jones); lists downloaded October 2026.</ref>

=== Land and property ===
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> No title registers were purchased; the [[HM Land Registry]] interactive search blocked automated access.<ref name="HLRWEB">[[HM Land Registry]], [https://search-property-information.service.gov.uk/ 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 [[Corporate and Commercial Ownership Data|CCOD]] / [[Overseas Companies Ownership Data|OCOD]] datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.</ref>

=== US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer) ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Organisation !! EIN !! Latest filing year !! Revenue (US$) !! Expenses (US$)
|-
| [[Israel Cancer Association Usa]]<ref name="u12595e42">[https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/136218184 Israel Cancer Association Usa – Nonprofit Explorer] ''ProPublica'', viewed 16 October 2026.</ref> || 136218184 || 2023 || 265,687 || 400,971
|}
These US organisations share the name or beneficiary of the UK charity; no financial flows between them and the UK charity were established.

=== Parliament ===
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Friends of the Israel Cancer Association", "Israel Cancer Association" returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22Israel%20Cancer%20Association%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Israel Cancer Association"] ''Hansard'', queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).</ref>

== Web archive ==
* en.cancer.org.il: 16 yearly captures, first 2011-06-28, last 2026-01-05.<ref name="u375a9f17">[https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=en.cancer.org.il&output=json&fl=timestamp,original,statuscode&filter=statuscode:200&collapse=timestamp:4 Internet Archive CDX index for en.cancer.org.il] ''Wayback Machine'', queried 16 October 2026.</ref>

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".<ref name="u7b52d64a" />

== See also ==

== External links ==
* No current official website.

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:Health charities in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Charities based in London]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Charities]]

Friends of the Israel Cancer Association - Revision history

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