Tel Hai Fund Ltd.

Tel Hai Fund Limited
Type	Charitable company
Registration ID	266913
Headquarters	7 Murray Crescent, Pinner HA5 3QF; correspondence c/o Graus Antiques, Mill Street, London W1S 2AT
Area served	Israel; London

Tel Hai Fund Limited (charity 266913; company 01151421) is a London grant-maker for education, religion and physical education in Israel. It was incorporated on 14 December 1973 and registered on 11 February 1974. The name is the Revisionist memorial at Tel Hai, the 1920 battle in which Joseph Trumpeldor was killed and which Betar took as a slogan. For most of its life the board ran through Eric Graus and Graus Antiques.

Objects

The register objects are to advance education and religion among adults and young persons, and to advance physical education among young persons, in the State of Israel. The charity makes grants to individuals, organisations and other charities. The register lists children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities, and people of a particular ethnic or racial origin. Area of operation: London and Israel. Contact address on the register: 7 Murray Crescent, Pinner HA5 3QF. Current directors file their correspondence care of Graus Antiques, Mill Street, London W1S 2AT.

Eric Graus

Eric Graus (April 1927) was a director from before 30 June 1991 until 12 March 2018. He died aged 90. The address on his resignation filing was 4 Melvin Hall, Golders Green Road, London NW11 9QB.

Geoffrey Alderman’s obituary in The Jewish Chronicle says Graus was born in Bratislava in 1927, that the family fled to England in 1939, and that he was active in Ze'ev Jabotinsky’s Revisionist movement. In 1947 he was a member of Lehi in Mandate Palestine and formed friendships with Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir. He later dealt in antiques from New Bond Street. In 1970 he established the British Herut movement. In 1972 he brought Begin to London for a first visit. In 1977, after Begin’s election, he relaunched Likud-Herut as a British pressure group for the new government. He was awarded the State of Israel Fighters Medal. Alderman writes that he was also active in the Soviet Jewry campaign, and that he worked to rehabilitate Begin against British Jews who called Begin a terrorist.

The existing page on this fund adds that Graus was life president of Likud Herut UK, honorary secretary of the Zionist Federation, and later British National Council Zionist co-chair; that he revived Betar UK in the 1970s; that he chaired the Menachem Begin Heritage Foundation; and that in 1982 he rejected Israeli responsibility for the massacre at Sabra and Shatila. Those points are not in the Alderman obituary.

His son Jeremy Graus (July 1959), nationality filed as Israeli, country of residence Israel, has been a director since 3 September 2018 and a trustee since 20 September 2022.

Activities and Grants

Raises funds for education and religious purposes in Israel. Makes grants to individuals, organisations and other charities supporting children/young people, elderly people, people with disabilities and people of particular ethnic or racial origin. Operates in London and Israel. Known grants include support for Yeshivat Hesder Shilo (a Hesder Yeshiva in Shilo settlement) and Keshet Yehuda.

Where the money goes

The grant series below is the fuller of the two accounts compilations supplied for this page. An earlier draft in the same note does not match it cell for cell. Empty cells are nil in that compilation. Totals are the row totals supplied, except Hesder Yeshivah Shiloh, whose total cell was blank and is the sum of the cells in that row.

The politically marked recipients are the Hesder yeshiva at Shilo, the pre-military academy at Keshet on the occupied Golan, the Cave of the Patriarchs fund in Hebron, Ofra, Karnei Shomron, Gush Etzion, Betar, and the Begin institutions.

Yeshivat Hesder Shiloh sits in the settlement of Shilo. A Hesder programme combines yeshiva study with service in the Israel Defense Forces. The supplied row runs from 2009 and sums to £224,883. Keshet Yehuda is a pre-military academy (mechina) at Keshet in the Golan, occupied by Israel in 1967. The row sums to £40,287. Maarat Hamachpela Heritage Fund is the fund for the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, the site of the 1994 massacre by Baruch Goldstein. The row sums to £17,500. Ulpan Yeshiva High School for Girls (Ofra) received £5,000 in 2000. Yeshivat Karnei Shomron received £2,075 across 2000–07. Gush Etzion and Keren Gush Etzion received £7,776 and £10,627.

Betar UK received £67,731 between 1995 and 2007. Betar Israel received £16,550. The Fund for the Development of the Zionist Idea received £55,957 in 2000–02. Begin Centre Jerusalem received £2,864 in 2004. Menachem Begin Heritage received £10,030 in 2014. This Land Is Mine received £5,200. DPC Self Defence received £8,500 in 2025. Golan Organisation received £500 in 1995.

The largest rows in the same compilation are not settlement funds: Carmei Ha'ir £280,327 (2006–23), Mosdot Neveh Tzivia £204,510 (2000–25) and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Israel £115,514 (1998–2017). Zichron Menachem received £47,736 and Zaka £18,874.

Funding

full table

Recipient	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Total (£)
Adath																390																390
Ahavat Shalom / Ahavas Shalom								700	1,000	550		8,877	125																			11,252
Aish																1,400																1,400
Alut																								500								500
Amotat Shavei Daron	400																															400
Ashkalon Foundation																														8,028		8,028
Begin Centre Jerusalem										2,864																						2,864
Betar Israel	6,400						2,103	8,047																								16,550
Betar UK	8,600	6,460	1,600	6,530	5,810	3,200	3,980	2,600	8,000	4,820	3,700	3,356	9,075																			67,731
Beyad Petucha												3,025																		12,058		15,083
Brit Orot											4,850																					4,850
Brit Yoseph Yitz																														24,177		24,177
Carmei Ha'ir												8,400	18,000	16,000	17,900	24,100	15,500	29,500	32,500	30,500	33,000	30,000	18,000	5,000	2,000	2,000			3,027			280,327
Cat Association																													1,627		1,627
Conrad Morris Charitable Trust				1,500																											1,500
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Israel / Cystic Fibrosis				7,014	5,000	1,000	5,000	3,000	5,000	3,000		7,000	20,000		5,000	3,000	3,000	12,500	9,000	9,000	9,000	9,000	9,000									115,514
Direct Aid										2,000	2,000	1,480	1,500	3,250	900	1,900	1,250	500	1,000	1,000	700	500	500	500	500	500	500					20,880
DPC Self Defence																														8,500	8,500
Ebenexer Emergency Food (GB)														500																	500
Eliya									1,500																						1,500
El Ami																			5,027												5,027
Emunah											500																				500
Etzion Foundation										6,000	1,000																				7,000
Ezer Modiin									3,000	4,500	8,120	5,250	5,000	2,000	1,500	1,500	1,250	500	500	1,000	1,000	500	750	750	250	500	500	500					38,870
Forum Hamidrashot											2,000																				2,000
Friends of Israel													250																	250
Friends of Keren B'yavneh		14,000		3,500																											17,500
Gemach Oranit									500																						500
Golan Organisation	500																															500
Gush Etzion			1,000										5,700	1,076																	7,776
Hachzokas Torah																													5,000		5,000
Hen Orn Kol Bi Yakum (Jerusalem)				4,780																											4,780
Hesder Yeshivah Shiloh															7,591	9,893	10,159	10,027	12,327	12,375	981	26,496	18,584	27,685	14,964	18,004		14,421	16,898			24,478
Jaffa Gate Ministries													636																		636
Jerusalem Centre																														4,015	4,015
Jerusalem Heritage Foundation									13,690	4,538																						18,228
Keren Gush Etzion																													10,627		10,627
Kerem Dickstein									1,500																						1,500
Keshet Yehuda																1,577	14,098	6,334	13,278		500	2,500	1,000	500	500							40,287
Kiryat Chinuch										1,020																						1,020
Laniado Hospital																							1,000								1,000
Lemaan Achai												2,000																			2,000
Maarat Hamachpela Heritage Fund																	1,500	1,000	2,800	1,500	1,000	1,000	1,500	7,200							17,500
Maccabi Ramat Gan																													5,028		5,028
Machon Reshit													7,900	3,650	500																12,050
Magen David Adom																														5,500	5,500
Menachem Begin Heritage																				10,030												10,030
Mevaser Zion Charitable Trust															5,000																5,000
Mishmeret									1,586																						1,586
Mosdot Neveh Tzivia						2,700	2,200	12,068	14,550	14,100	14,500	11,250	12,500	17,877	7,595	11,150	8,600	6,600	10,120	7,000	10,300	12,500	8,500	5,000	15,000	8,042	3,030	7,058	6,055	10,070	6,043	204,510
Ohr Shlomo							12,960	14,144	8,070																	1,944						37,118
Olim Fund											1,500	650																				2,150
Oranit											3,525																				3,525
Parmunim												1,000																			1,000
Ponowich									200																						200
Rachel CT										1,000																					1,000
Shaare Zedek							1,360					200																			1,560
Shilton Betar Jerusalem										18,814	3,100																				21,914
Shivtei Yisrael																													527		527
Terror Victim Families														500																	500
The Fund for the Development of the Zionist Idea						6,820	26,937	22,200																							55,957
This Land Is Mine													900	500	1,500	1,000		300	500	500												5,200
Ulpan Klita												2,300																			2,300
Ulpan Yeshiva High School for Girls (OFRA)						5,000																									5,000
Various															800	545	1,005														2,350
Yeshivat Karnei Shomron						300	250			250	775	250	250																		2,075
Yeshivat Kollel Shomron																					500										500
Yeshivat Shaarey Mevaseret																		10,027												10,027
Zaka									6,304	12,570																				18,874
Zichron Menachem							7,943	6,783	32,560	450																				47,736

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.

Name	Charity role	Company role	Born	Appointed	Resigned
Jeremy Graus	Trustee, 20 September 2022	Director, 3 September 2018	July 1959	—	Current. Nationality Israeli. Residence Israel
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
Michael Andrew Lewis Lee	Not on the trustee list	Director, 5 April 2021	April 1961	—	Current
Eric Graus	—	Director from before 30 June 1991	April 1927	—	Resigned 12 March 2018. Died 2018
Joseph Gellert	—	Director 20 August 2003; secretary from before 30 June 1991	October 1934	—	Resigned both 6 April 2021. Director address filed in Netanya
Malvyn Benjamin	—	Director from before 30 June 1991	November 1936	—	Resigned 14 May 2017

See also

• Eric Graus
• Likud Herut UK
• Betar UK
• Yeshivat Hesder Shiloh
• Keshet Yehuda
• Menachem Begin
• British Friends of the Land of Israel