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'''Support for the IDF:''' The FY2024 accounts do not state funding for military or defence research; funds go to the Technion for scholarships, laboratories, dormitories and research (restricted funds are described for student dormitories and research and development).<ref name="ACC" /> The Technion itself has documented research links with Israel's defence industry; see Controversies.<ref name="TECH_ELBIT">Elbit Systems Ltd, [https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1027664/000091068008000462/f6k06152008.htm Form 6-K: Elbit Systems and the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) to Establish New Vision Systems Research Centre] ''U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)'', press release dated 15 June 2008.</ref><ref name="TECH_TADAMON">Tadamon! and others, [https://www.tadamon.ca/archive/wp-content/uploads/Technion-English.pdf Structures of Oppression: Why McGill and Concordia Universities must sever their links with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology] (campaign report, updated version of a report first released 26 October 2010).</ref>
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'''Support for the IDF:''' The FY2024 accounts do not state funding for military or defence research; funds go to the Technion for scholarships, laboratories, dormitories and research (restricted funds are described for student dormitories and research and development).<ref name="ACC" /> The Technion itself has documented research links with Israel's defence industry; see Controversies.<ref name="TECH_ELBIT">Elbit Systems Ltd, [https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1027664/000091068008000462/f6k06152008.htm Form 6-K: Elbit Systems and the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) to Establish New Vision Systems Research Centre] ''U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)'', press release dated 15 June 2008.</ref><ref name="TECH_TADAMON">Tadamon! and others, [https://www.tadamon.ca/archive/wp-content/uploads/Technion-English.pdf Structures of Oppression: Why McGill and Concordia Universities must sever their links with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology] (campaign report, updated version of a report first released 26 October 2010; critical source).</ref>
  
 
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The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages 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-3 screening covered 409 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive) and Companies House officers of the 12 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually; lists downloaded October 2026. (Corrected 14 October 2026: the first run omitted the 21 names found only on archived full-print pages; the re-screen found no match.)</ref>
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The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and (for charitable companies) its [[Companies House]] officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found.<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-3 screening covered 409 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive) and Companies House officers of the 12 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually; lists downloaded October 2026. (Corrected 14 October 2026: the first run omitted the 21 names found only on archived full-print pages; the re-screen found no match.)</ref>
  
 
=== Land and property ===
 
=== Land and property ===
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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 on 14 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>
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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 14 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>
  
 
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=== US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer) ===
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Latest revision as of 22:31, 25 October 2026

UK fundraising charity (formerly the British Technion Society) remitting funds to the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa

Technion UK

Logo Technion UK logo.png
Type Charitable company
Founded 2002-05-24 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1092207; company 04412830
Headquarters 62 Grosvenor Street, London, W1K 3JF
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel
Website www.technionuk.org
The Ohel Aharon synagogue on the Technion campus, Haifa (2005). The charity supports the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
The Rabin building of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion, Haifa (2012). Technion UK paid £1,542,822 to the Technion in 2024

Technion UK (formerly British Technion Society) is a British charity (no 1092207) set up to provide financial support for the Technion the Israeli science and technology institute.

It was formed under its then name of British Technion Society, at a meeting in the House of Lords in April 1951.[1]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN TH ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY AND KINDRED SUBJECTS, AND IN PARTICULAR BY:(A) FOSTERING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HAIFA ("THE TECHNION") AND RELEVANT CIRCLES IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR THE PURPOSE OF FACILITATING THE EXCHANGE EOF LECTURERS AND RESEARCH WORKERS IN AND STUDENTS OF THE SUBJECTS STUDIED AT THE TECHNION; (B) SUPPORTING THE WORK AND FURTHERING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TECHNION; AND (C) PROMOTING THE ACQUISITION OF SPECIES OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE TECHNION."[2]

The register describes its activities as: "Promoting interest in and raising funds for Technion - Israel Institute of Science and Technology in Haifa Israel."[2]

Register classifications: Education/training, Overseas Aid/famine Relief.[2]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[2]

People

Trustees

Daniel Peltz (also a trustee of various charities including the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Institute of Jewish Studies and the Peltz Trust) | Lois Peltz | Michael Heller (also trustee of the Israel Diaspora Trust) | Gary Monnickendam[3]

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-06 Daniel Peltz; Lois Peltz; Michael Heller; David Brecher [4]
2012-09-07 Daniel Peltz; Lois Peltz; Michael Heller; David Brecher [5]
2014-05-06 Daniel Peltz; Lois Peltz; Michael Heller; Gary Monnickendam [6]
2018-01-03 Daniel Peltz; Lois Peltz; Michael Heller; Gary Monnickendam [7]
2021-07-02 Paul Charney (from 01 May 2020); Geoffrey Hartnell (from 01 May 2020) – also trustee of Raphael and Ernestine Tuck Trust Fund; Stephen Wiseman (from 01 May 2020); Alan Aziz (from 10 February 2021); Oskar Mencer (from 01 May 2020); Sir Michael Heller – also trustee of The Israel-diaspora Trust; Daniel Peltz (chair) – also trustee of City of London School Bursary Trust, Tutoring to Thrive, The Anna Freud Centre, The Warburg Charitable Trust, The Music in Secondary Schools Trust, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation, The Ngt Foundation, The Institute of Jewish Studies, Foundation for Jewish Heritage; Claire Rothman (from 01 May 2020) [8]

The register extract lists no trustees for Technion UK. Its FY2024 accounts name as trustees Paul Charney (chairman), Stephen Wiseman, Geoffrey Hartnell, Claire Rothman, Howard Ross, Lady Morven Heller, Kevin Gothelf, Jacques Fragis and David Menashy, with Alan Aziz shown as director.[9] Companies House records the appointments of Gothelf, Fragis and Menashy as directors on 1 May 2026 – after those accounts were filed on 7 November 2025 – a discrepancy not explained in the public record.[10]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 19 current and former officers of the charitable company (04412830), 9 of them active.[11]

Appointments of these officers to overseas companies registered in the UK (FC) or on the Register of Overseas Entities (OE):

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £1,874,319 £338,844
2021-12-31 £445,696 £1,655,258
2022-12-31 £416,577 £873,730
2023-12-31 £1,355,169 £966,556
2024-12-31 £1,805,466 £2,137,797

Source: register annual-return history.[2]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
31 Dec 2004 2,155,315 1,442,641 [13]
31 Dec 2005 2,853,415 2,589,938 [13]
31 Dec 2006 607,443 689,111 [13]
31 Dec 2007 1,900,716 1,851,716 [13]
31 Dec 2009 657,470 1,072,775 [14]
31 Dec 2010 847,037 744,003 [14]
31 Dec 2011 404,711 699,044 [15]
31 Dec 2015 437,939 520,244 [16]
31 Dec 2016 1,808,076 734,851 [16]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2005[17]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2006[18]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2007[19]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2008[20]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2009[21]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2012[22]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2013[23]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2014[24]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[25]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[26]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[27]

Funding in Israel

  • Year ended 31 December 2024: £1,542,822 paid to the Technion Institute in Israel (2023: £448,780).[9]

Israeli partners

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. The accounts also note ties with the American Technion Society and Canadian and European Technion societies.[9]

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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
Not established. Remittances go to the Technion in Haifa; no West Bank project is named.[9] Low

Support for the IDF: The FY2024 accounts do not state funding for military or defence research; funds go to the Technion for scholarships, laboratories, dormitories and research (restricted funds are described for student dormitories and research and development).[9] The Technion itself has documented research links with Israel's defence industry; see Controversies.[28][29]

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;[30] 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.[31][32][33][34] 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.[35]
  • Accounts narrative. The FY2024 trustees' report states that "Most of the events during the year were online" and that the trustees "were very happy to recruit 4 new trustees in the prior year". Three of the named trustees were recorded at Companies House as appointed on 1 May 2026.[9][10]
  • Technion and the defence industry (context – the Israeli university, not the UK charity). In June 2008 Elbit Systems, which describes itself as "an international defense electronics company", announced a five-year joint research agreement with the Technion's Electrical Engineering department on vision systems, noting that its vision technology is used in "advanced helmet mounted systems for combat aircraft".[28] A 2010 Canadian campaign report urging McGill and Concordia universities to cut links with the Technion alleges that it collaborates with Elbit and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and co-runs the IDF "Brakim" academic-reserve programme.[29] The UK charity's accounts do not say whether any UK-raised funds go to defence-related research.[9]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[36] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[37]

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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[38]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2005-07-20 The National Lottery Community Fund 5,000 The Society will run 20 Road Shows during 2005 and early 2006 to promote their work in light of the Nobel Prize for science awarded to Techn

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[39]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found.[40]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[2] No title registers were purchased.[41]

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)
American Society For Technion- Israel Institute Of Technology Inc[42] 130434195 2023 86,399,228 92,015,314

These US organisations share the name or beneficiary of the UK charity; no financial flows between them and the UK charity were established.

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'Technion UK' returned 0 contributions in total.[43]

Web archive

  • technionuk.org: 15 yearly captures, first 2012-10-27, last 2026-01-03.[44]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 6 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above).

Contact

Address: 62 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 3JF
Phone:020 7495 6824
Web: technionuk.org

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Technion UK About. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 5 June 2013. Accessed 19 February 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  3. ↑ Charity commission Technion UK contact and Trustees. Accessed 19 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1092207, contact and trustees (capture of 20100706) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1092207, contact and trustees (capture of 20120907) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 1092207, contact and trustees (capture of 20140506) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Register entry 1092207, contact and trustees (capture of 20180103) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ Register entry 1092207, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 Companies House, Technion UK (04412830): full accounts made up to 31 December 2024 Companies House, filed 7 November 2025, downloaded 14 October 2026 (the Charity Commission register page lists the filing but offers no download; the PDF is a scan and was read by OCR; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Companies House, Technion UK (04412830): filing history Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026 (full accounts made up to 31 December 2024 filed 7 November 2025; AP01 appointments of Kevin Gothelf, Jacques Fragis and David Alan Menashy as directors on 1 May 2026, filed 7 May 2026).
  11. ↑ Company 04412830: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 FRAGIS, Jacques: appointments Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Register entry 1092207, financial history (capture of 20100706) UK Government Web Archive.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Register entry 1092207, financial history (capture of 20120907) UK Government Web Archive.
  15. ↑ Register entry 1092207, financial history (capture of 20140506) UK Government Web Archive.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Register entry 1092207, financial history (capture of 20180103) UK Government Web Archive.
  17. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2005-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  18. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2006-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120116).
  19. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2007-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120116).
  20. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2008-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140507).
  21. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2009-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140507).
  22. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2012-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20170106).
  23. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2013-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20170106).
  24. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  25. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  26. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  27. ↑ Technion UK accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Elbit Systems Ltd, Form 6-K: Elbit Systems and the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) to Establish New Vision Systems Research Centre U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR), press release dated 15 June 2008.
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Tadamon! and others, Structures of Oppression: Why McGill and Concordia Universities must sever their links with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (campaign report, updated version of a report first released 26 October 2010; critical source).
  30. ↑ 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 every charity in batches 1–7 (175 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  31. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  32. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  33. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  34. ↑ 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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  35. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  36. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-3 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  37. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-3 charity name returned zero results).
  38. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Technion UK' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  39. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1092207 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  40. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-3 screening covered 409 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive) and Companies House officers of the 12 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually; lists downloaded October 2026. (Corrected 14 October 2026: the first run omitted the 21 names found only on archived full-print pages; the re-screen found no match.)
  41. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 14 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.
  42. ↑ American Society For Technion- Israel Institute Of Technology Inc – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 14 October 2026.
  43. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Technion UK' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
  44. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for technionuk.org Wayback Machine, queried 14 October 2026.
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