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[[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.<ref name="JC">Geoffrey Alderman, [https://www.thejc.com/news/obituaries/obituary-eric-graus-qcydzpra Obituary: Eric Graus], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 14 May 2018.</ref>
 
[[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.<ref name="JC">Geoffrey Alderman, [https://www.thejc.com/news/obituaries/obituary-eric-graus-qcydzpra Obituary: Eric Graus], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 14 May 2018.</ref>
  
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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.<ref name="Stub">Existing Powerbase stub, Tel Hai Fund.</ref>
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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.  
  
 
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.<ref name="CH"/><ref name="CC"/>
 
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.<ref name="CH"/><ref name="CC"/>
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== Activities and Grants ==
 
== Activities and Grants ==

Revision as of 12:23, 2 October 2026

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.[1][2]

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.[1][2]

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.[2]

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.[3]

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.

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.[2][1]

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.[4]

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.[5]

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.[5]

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.[5]

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.[1][2]

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

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Tel Hai Fund Limited, Charity Commission, 266913.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Tel Hai Fund Limited people, Companies House, 01151421.
  3. ↑ Geoffrey Alderman, Obituary: Eric Graus, The Jewish Chronicle, 14 May 2018.
  4. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named cc
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Grant compilation from Tel Hai Fund accounts, 1995–2025, as supplied.
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