The Merephdi Foundation
Pass-through trust funding Clalit hospitals in Israel, chiefly Soroka in Beersheba
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| Type | Other |
| Founded | 1983-03-23 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 286738 |
| Headquarters | London N3 |
| Area served | Israel, Barnet |
The Merephdi Foundation is a trust (declaration of trust of 7 March 1983) registered on 23 March 1983; register areas are Israel and Barnet.[1] Its trustees are Dr Adrian Naftalin, Dr Alan Mushin, Martin Green and James Larholt, and its address is in London N3.[1] Its objective is to provide resources for medical research and care to hospitals and clinics in Israel, "concentrated on developing the existing partnership with Clalit Health Services" (PDF p.4). In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £232,400 (restricted donations £230,000), grants £235,000 and funds £120 – cash of £120 at the year end (PDF p.4, 7–8).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ISRAEL MEDICAL RESEARCH AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL FACILITIES FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT REASONABLY AFFORD THEM AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND RELIEF OF THE SICK THE AGED AND THE DISABLED."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "Raising funds for hospitals in Israel and transferring them to the beneficiaries"[1]
Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, Barnet.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr ADRIAN NAFTALIN | 1983-03-07 | — | |
| Martin Green | 1985-03-01 | — | |
| Dr Alan Mushin | 2014-12-11 | — | |
| James Larholt | 2019-12-11 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-15 | James Larholt (from 11 December 2019); ADRIAN NAFTALIN (from 07 March 1983); Martin Green (from 01 March 1985); Alan Mushin (from 11 December 2014) | [3] |
| 2021-07-05 | James Larholt (from 11 December 2019); ADRIAN NAFTALIN (from 07 March 1983); Alan Mushin (from 11 December 2014); Martin Green (from 01 March 1985) | [4] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £173,185 | £125,185 |
| 2022-03-31 | £161,639 | £209,639 |
| 2023-03-31 | £657,181 | £657,181 |
| 2024-03-31 | £386,940 | £386,940 |
| 2025-03-31 | £232,400 | £232,400 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[8]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants £235,000: Soroka Medical Centre £230,000 and Emek Medical Centre £5,000 (2024: £20,000); FY2024 grants were Rabin Medical Centre £359,100, Emek Medical Centre £20,000 and the Emek Medical Centre War Preparedness Fund £500 (PDF p.4, 11).[2]
Israeli partners
Clalit Health Services hospitals: Soroka Medical Centre (151 Yitshak Rager Boulevard, Beer Sheva), HaEmek Medical Centre (21 Yitshak Rabin Boulevard, Afula) and Rabin Medical Centre (39 Derech Ze'ev Jabotinsky Street, Petah Tikva).[2][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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Soroka is in Beersheba, inside the 1949 armistice lines.[9] | Low – Beersheba |
| HaEmek is in Afula, inside the 1949 armistice lines.[9] | Low – Afula |
| Rabin Medical Centre (FY2024) is in Petah Tikva, inside the 1949 armistice lines.[9] | Low – Petah Tikva |
Support for the IDF: No IDF funding is stated. FY2024 grants included £500 to the "Emek Medical Centre War Preparedness Fund" (PDF p.11).[2]
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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
- Pass-through structure. Restricted donations received in the year are granted on almost in full, leaving funds of £120 (2024: £5,120) and no reserves (PDF p.7–8).[2]
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]
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.[18]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]
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.[20]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[21]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Merephdi Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]
Web archive
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".[3]
See also
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Charity Commission, The Merephdi Foundation (286738): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 286738, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 286738, full print (capture of 20210705) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ The Merephdi Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ The Merephdi Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ The Merephdi Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ The Merephdi Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, List of medical facilities in Israel GOV.UK, updated 23 May 2023, retrieved 15 October 2026 (Soroka Medical Centre, "151 Yitshak Rager Boulevard, Beer Sheva", public hospital (Clalit); HaEmek Medical Centre, "21 Yitshak Rabin Boulevard, Afula", public hospital (Clalit); Rabin Medical Centre, "39 Derech Ze'ev Jabotinsky Street, Petah Tikva", public hospital (Clalit); Rambam Medical Centre, "8 HaAliya HaShniya Street, Haifa", public hospital).
- ↑ 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-11 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status (for example "Charity reporting is up to date (39 days late)" for British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre, "(4 days late)" for British Friends of Aleh and "(11 days late)" for Urgent Projects).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-11 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names such as J R Gibb Charitable Trust and Boleskine Community Care).
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-11 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Merephdi' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-286738 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-11 screening covered 386 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (GS Property Management Services, Igerville, Housefresh, Vitalina, Rochester Developments and Delapage), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Fund", "Israel", "Republic") and surname-only coincidences (Cohen, Levy, Friedman, Green, Said); lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, 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 CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Merephdi" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).