UK Friends of Herzog Hospital

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UK friends' trust of the Herzog Medical Center, Givat Shaul, Jerusalem

UK Friends of Herzog Hospital

Logo HerzogHospital.jpg
Type Trust
Founded 1993-08-11 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1024814
Headquarters 51 Barham Avenue, Elstree, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 3PW
Area served Israel
Key people Jonathan Lauffer (chair)
Website www.herzoghospital.org


UK Friends of Herzog Hospital (formerly British Friends of the Sarah Herzog Memorial Hospital and British Friends of Herzog Hospital) is a trust (deed of 8 July 1993, amended 19 November 2024) registered on 11 August 1993; Israel is its only register area.[1] Its trustees are Jonathan Lauffer (chair), Stephen Forman, Rachelle Goldberg, Dr Michael Fertleman and Sandra Dangoor, and its address is 51 Barham Avenue, Elstree WD6 3PW. It raises funds for "the Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem" in mental health, respiratory care, geriatrics and rehabilitation (PDF p.3–4).[2] In 2024 voluntary income was £295,478 (2023: £408,681), grants paid £129,578 and funds £339,968 (PDF p.6).[2] The hospital gives its address as Givat Shaul Street, Jerusalem, and lists the UK charity among its friends' organisations.[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN PROMOTING THE CHARITABLE AIMS OBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE HOSPITAL AND THROUGH OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE HOSPITAL TO PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN THE PROMOTION OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIENCES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Promote and provide financial assistance for the Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem"[1]

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of UK Friends of Herzog Hospital (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Jonathan Lauffer not recorded Yes —
Stephen John Forman 2020-11-03 Aria (Southampton) Trust (307249); Forman Charitable Trust (1162888); Isaac and Annie Fogelman Relief Trust (202285)
Rachelle Goldberg 2021-05-13 Harrow Foodbank (1154292); Mill Hill Music Club (1050817); The Middlesex Association for the Blind (207007)
Dr Michael Barry Fertleman 2021-11-04 —
Sandra Ruth Dangoor 2024-06-14 Harif (1186454)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-10 David Halpern; Jonathan Lauffer; Stuart Neil Ronson; Rene Lauffer; Vivienne Cohen [4]
2011-01-24 David Halpern; Jonathan Lauffer; Stuart Neil Ronson; Rene Lauffer; Vivienne Cohen [5]
2021-01-07 Stephen Forman (from 03 November 2020); Martin Charles Dunitz (from 08 August 2014); Vivienne Cohen (from 01 February 2000); Jonathan Lauffer – also trustee of British Friends of Shvut Ami [6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £204,318 £149,074
2021-12-31 £508,100 £203,056
2022-12-31 £473,900 £780,538
2023-12-31 £408,979 £336,378
2024-12-31 £297,159 £149,015

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 31/12/2014[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[11]

Funding in Israel

Israeli partners

Herzog Medical Center (Ezrath Nashim), Givat Shaul Street, Jerusalem.[2][3]

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
The hospital is in Givat Shaul, west Jerusalem, inside the 1949 armistice lines.[3] Low – Givat Shaul, Jerusalem

Support for the IDF: The accounts plan therapy for those "affected by the traumatic events of 7th October and the ongoing war" in expanded mental-health clinics, and restricted funds include the Metiv Psychotrauma Centre (£7,134) (PDF p.4, 11).[2] At partner level, the hospital's website featured a "Soldier's Project" in its psychotrauma centre in 2014[12] and in 2026 listed press coverage headed "A Beacon for Soldiers with PTSD".[13] No grant to the IDF itself is stated.[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;[14] 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.[15][16][17][18] 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.[19]
  • Small discrepancy. The statement of financial activities gives grants of £129,578, while the grants note gives £129,298 to Ezrath Nashim Herzog Hospital, a difference of £280 (PDF p.6, 10).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[20] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[21]

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.[22]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[23]

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.[24]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[25]

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)
American Friends Of Herzog Hospital Inc[26] 135655183 2023 1,386,251 705,231

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

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Herzog Hospital" returned 0 contributions in total.[27]

Web archive

  • herzoghospital.org: 26 yearly captures, first 2001-02-20, last 2026-01-06.[28]

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".[6]

See also

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Charity Commission, UK Friends of Herzog Hospital (1024814): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Herzog Medical Center, Homepage herzoghospital.org, viewed 15 October 2026 ("Directions & Parking Givat Shaul Street, PO Box 3900, Jerusalem 9103702, Israel"; partner list includes "UK Friends of Herzog Hospital 51 Barham Avenue, Elstree").
  4. ↑ Register entry 1024814, contact and trustees (capture of 20100710) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1024814, contact and trustees (capture of 20110124) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Register entry 1024814, full print (capture of 20210107) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ UK Friends of Herzog Hospital accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ UK Friends of Herzog Hospital accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ UK Friends of Herzog Hospital accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  10. ↑ UK Friends of Herzog Hospital accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  11. ↑ UK Friends of Herzog Hospital accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  12. ↑ Herzog Hospital, Landing – Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem (capture of 3 February 2014) Wayback Machine (menu under Psychotrauma: "The Temmy & Albert Latner Center Soldier's Project").
  13. ↑ Herzog Medical Center, Homepage (capture of 6 January 2026) Wayback Machine (press list includes "Herzog Medical Center: A Beacon for Soldiers with PTSD").
  14. ↑ 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-10 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; alerts were shown only for Solev Co Limited (254623) and Lehachyos (1170523).
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ 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").
  20. ↑ 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-10 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
  21. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-10 charity name returned no relevant result; the search for "Kosov" returned only an unrelated removed charity, Kosova Support Group, showing that the API was answering).
  22. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Herzog Hospital' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  23. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1024814 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  24. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-10 screening covered 337 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 (including Pinlee Investments, Calvert Estates, Kendleville, Pidom Export, Faircastle, Hatzlocho, Localtrent, Ardina, Ridgesave, Portford, Wilkincroft and Pandor Estates), and trustees, lenders, donor companies 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 company words ("Services Limited" in the name of a corporate secretary) and surname-only coincidences; lists downloaded October 2026.
  25. ↑ HM Land Registry, 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 CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  26. ↑ American Friends Of Herzog Hospital Inc – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 15 October 2026.
  27. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Herzog Hospital" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  28. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for herzoghospital.org Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
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