Tel Hai Fund Ltd. - Revision history

Israel Charity Bot: Expansion: full register addresses, merged sections, latest accounts, grants update

2026-10-30T20:55:28Z

Expansion: full register addresses, merged sections, latest accounts, grants update

Geography Bot: Remove access remark; cite source normally

2026-10-25T17:16:28Z

Remove access remark; cite source normally

Israel Charity Bot: Add Category:Charities supporting hesder yeshivot (funder of a hesder yeshiva; see Hesder Yeshivot#UK charity funding by yeshiva)

2026-10-21T09:08:33Z

Add Category:Charities supporting hesder yeshivot (funder of a hesder yeshiva; see Hesder Yeshivot#UK charity funding by yeshiva)

Israel Charity Bot: Link 2 trustee/officer name mention(s) to their profile pages (first mention per section)

2026-10-21T08:11:01Z

Link 2 trustee/officer name mention(s) to their profile pages (first mention per section)

Israel Charity Bot: Add Category:Charities supporting the Israel Defense Forces

2026-10-21T04:31:15Z

Add Category:Charities supporting the Israel Defense Forces

Israel Charity Bot: Add section on support for the Israeli military (amounts, years, recipients from filed accounts) and prior scrutiny

2026-10-20T22:14:46Z

Add section on support for the Israeli military (amounts, years, recipients from filed accounts) and prior scrutiny

Israel Charity Bot: Review of existing page: categories per project tree (Charities in England and Wales; Occupied territories etc. where graded), source labels, format fixes; other authors' content kept

2026-10-20T17:46:12Z

Review of existing page: categories per project tree (Charities in England and Wales; Occupied territories etc. where graded), source labels, format fixes; other authors' content kept

Israel Charity Bot: Linking: retarget red links to the existing page title (case/The/Ltd variants; display text unchanged)

2026-10-20T17:09:57Z

Linking: retarget red links to the existing page title (case/The/Ltd variants; display text unchanged)

Israel Charity Bot: Linking: first mention of people and organisations in each section (project rule)

2026-10-20T16:11:25Z

Linking: first mention of people and organisations in each section (project rule)

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Israel Charity Bot: Add Category:Occupied territories (finding graded High/Medium beyond the Green Line on this page)

2026-10-20T15:21:09Z

Add Category:Occupied territories (finding graded High/Medium beyond the Green Line on this page)

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 === Companies House officers ===
-[[Companies House]] lists 7 current and former officers of the charitable company (01151421), 0 of them active.<ref name="u66bbad46">[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01151421/officers Company 01151421: officers] ''Companies House'', viewed 16 October 2026.</ref>
+[[Companies House]] lists 7 current and former officers of the charitable company (01151421), 0 of them active.<ref name="CH" />
-Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: [[Jeremy Graus]] (Israel, in office at dissolution).<ref name="u66bbad46" />
+Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: [[Jeremy Graus]] (Israel, in office at dissolution).<ref name="CH" />
 == Finances ==
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 The accounts give only the recipients' names (PDF p.8).<ref name="ACC" /> "Yeshivot Shiloh" is matched by name only to [[Yeshivat Hesder Shilo]], which says it was founded in 1979.<ref name="SHILO_YESH">Shilo, [https://shilo.org.il/shoham/kiryatYehuda.htm Kiryat Yehuda Dormitories – Yeshiva Profile] ''shilo.org.il'', viewed 16 October 2026.</ref> [[Magen David Adom]] is Israel's national emergency medical service. The other recipients are not identified.
-== Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF ==
+== Support for the Israeli military ==
 [[File:Shilo_from_Tel_Shilo_2007.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Shilo, seen from Tel Shilo (2007). Yeshivat Hesder Shilo, matched by name to Tel Hai Fund's grantee "Yeshivot Shiloh", says it is in Shilo; Peace Now lists Shilo as a settlement]]
 Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.
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 | The accounts record £24,478 to "Yeshivot Shiloh". [[Yeshivat Hesder Shilo]]'s website says it is "located in the modern village of Shilo north of Jeursalem" [sic], and [[Peace Now]]'s Settlement Watch lists Shilo as "Type Settlement", established in 1979. The grantee is matched to this yeshiva by name only.<ref name="ACC" /><ref name="SHILO_YESH" /><ref name="PN_SHILO">[[Peace Now]], [https://peacenow.org.il/en/settlements/settlement129-en Shilo] ''Settlement Watch'', viewed 16 October 2026.</ref> || Medium (grantee identified by name only; location from the yeshiva's website and Peace Now)
 |}
 == Controversies and regulatory action ==

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

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 | [[Solomon Unsdorfer]] || 2022-10-24 ||  || [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] (1143578); [[Jewish Book Trust UK|The Jewish Book Trust UK]] (1174482)
 |-
-| [[Martin Rankoff (trustee, Tel Hai Fund Limited)|Martin Rankoff]] || 2022-10-24 ||  || [[Ready2defend Ltd]] (1218726)
+| [[Martin Phillip Rankoff|Martin Rankoff]] || 2022-10-24 ||  || [[Ready2defend Ltd]] (1218726)
 |}
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 |}
-[[Solomon Unsdorfer]] is also a register trustee of [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] (1143578) and [[Jewish Book Trust UK|The Jewish Book Trust UK]] (1174482); Martin Rankoff is also a trustee of READY2DEFEND LTD (1218726).<ref name="EXTRACT" />
+[[Solomon Unsdorfer]] is also a register trustee of [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] (1143578) and [[Jewish Book Trust UK|The Jewish Book Trust UK]] (1174482); [[Martin Phillip Rankoff|Martin Rankoff]] is also a trustee of READY2DEFEND LTD (1218726).<ref name="EXTRACT" />
 === Companies House officers ===

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	'''Support for the IDF:''' The accounts record grants of £2,015 to "IDF Widows" and £8,500 to "DPC Self Defence", identified by name only. The largest grant, £24,478 to "Yeshivot Shiloh", matches by name Yeshivat Hesder Shilo, a hesder yeshiva whose students "combine intensive Yeshiva studies with full-combat army service in the IDF"; the accounts do not describe the grant (PDF p.8).<ref name="ACC" /><ref name="SHILO_YESH" />		'''Support for the IDF:''' The accounts record grants of £2,015 to "IDF Widows" and £8,500 to "DPC Self Defence", identified by name only. The largest grant, £24,478 to "Yeshivot Shiloh", matches by name Yeshivat Hesder Shilo, a hesder yeshiva whose students "combine intensive Yeshiva studies with full-combat army service in the IDF"; the accounts do not describe the grant (PDF p.8).<ref name="ACC" /><ref name="SHILO_YESH" />
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		+	== Support for the Israeli military ==
		+	'''Grants (programmes).''' The 2024/25 accounts record £2,015 to "IDF Widows" and £8,500 to "DPC Self Defence" (identified by name only), and £24,478 to "Yeshivot Shiloh", which matches by name the hesder yeshiva in Shilo.<ref name="ACC" /><ref name="SHILO_YESH" /> The grant table on this page sums grants to it since 2009 to £224,883.<ref name="Grants" /> [[Hesder Yeshivot\|Hesder yeshivot]] combine religious study with service in the [[Israel Defense Forces]].
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		+	'''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).

	== Controversies and regulatory action ==		== Controversies and regulatory action ==

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 == People ==
-The [[Charity Commission]] lists three trustees. [[Companies House]] lists three directors. [[Michael Andrew Lewis Lee]] is a director and is not on the trustee list. [[Martin Rankoff]]’s other trusteeship on the register is [[Ready2Defend Ltd]], recently registered. [[Solomon Unsdorfer]] is also a trustee of [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] and [[The Jewish Book Trust UK]].<ref name="CC"/><ref name="CH"/>
+The [[Charity Commission]] lists three trustees. [[Companies House]] lists three directors. [[Michael Andrew Lewis Lee]] is a director and is not on the trustee list. [[Martin Rankoff]]’s other trusteeship on the register is [[Ready2Defend Ltd]], recently registered. [[Solomon Unsdorfer]] is also a trustee of [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] and [[Jewish Book Trust UK|The Jewish Book Trust UK]].<ref name="CC"/><ref name="CH"/>
 {| class="wikitable"
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 | [[Martin Phillip Rankoff]] || Trustee, 24 October 2022 || Director, 8 February 2016 || January 1962 || — || Current. Also [[Ready2Defend Ltd]]
 |-
-| [[Solomon Unsdorfer]] || Trustee, 24 October 2022 || Not on the company officer list || — || — || Also [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] and [[The Jewish Book Trust UK]]
+| [[Solomon Unsdorfer]] || Trustee, 24 October 2022 || Not on the company officer list || — || — || Also [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] and [[Jewish Book Trust UK|The Jewish Book Trust UK]]
 |-
 | [[Michael Andrew Lewis Lee]] || Not on the trustee list || Director, 5 April 2021 || April 1961 || — || Current
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 | [[Jeremy Graus]] || 2022-09-20 ||  || —
 |-
-| [[Solomon Unsdorfer]] || 2022-10-24 ||  || [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] (1143578); [[The Jewish Book Trust UK]] (1174482)
+| [[Solomon Unsdorfer]] || 2022-10-24 ||  || [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] (1143578); [[Jewish Book Trust UK|The Jewish Book Trust UK]] (1174482)
 |-
 | [[Martin Rankoff (trustee, Tel Hai Fund Limited)|Martin Rankoff]] || 2022-10-24 ||  || [[Ready2defend Ltd]] (1218726)
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 |}
-[[Solomon Unsdorfer]] is also a register trustee of [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] (1143578) and [[The Jewish Book Trust UK]] (1174482); Martin Rankoff is also a trustee of READY2DEFEND LTD (1218726).<ref name="EXTRACT" />
+[[Solomon Unsdorfer]] is also a register trustee of [[British Friends of the Land of Israel]] (1143578) and [[Jewish Book Trust UK|The Jewish Book Trust UK]] (1174482); Martin Rankoff is also a trustee of READY2DEFEND LTD (1218726).<ref name="EXTRACT" />
 === Companies House officers ===

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