Delek Group is an Israeli conglomerate and one of Israel's largest companies, Delek Group is involved in the

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, with investments in upstream and downstream energy, water desalination and power plants. Delek Group' subsidiaries are also involved in

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. Delek Group is listed on the

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

stock exchange under the ticker symbol, DLEKG, and is a member of the

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of leading Israeli companies, as of July 2012 two of the group's subsidiaries are also listed on the

, Avner Oil Exploration LP and Delek Drilling LP. The Delek Group agreed to sell a 52% controlling stake of Phoenix Holding company (insurance and financial undertaking) to the Chinese civilian-run conglomerate

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History

Delek, The Israel Fuel Corporation Ltd, was founded in 1951 In August 2007, Delek Benelux took over marketing activities for Chevron Global Energy Inc. in Benelux, including 869 fueling stations, mostly under the Texaco brand. The same month, Delek Israel's Delek Pi-Glilot, a fuel storage and distribution company operating in

Ashdod Ashdod ( he, ''ʾašdōḏ''; ar, أسدود or إسدود ''ʾisdūd'' or '' ʾasdūd'' ; Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤃𐤃 *''ʾašdūd'') is the sixth-largest city in Israel. Located in the country's Southern District, it lies on the Mediterran ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

and

Beersheba Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ...

, won a Government Companies Authorities tender to run the fuel storage facilities in Ashdod. A few months later in November, they announced the hiring of former police commissioner

Moshe Karadi Moshe Karadi ( he, משה קראדי; born 1960) is a former Israeli police officer and general commissioner of the Israel Police between 2004 and May 1, 2007. Karadi was born and raised in Bat Yam, and currently resides in Rishon LeZion. He is m ...

to run Delek Pi-Glilot, who had recently resigned following findings by the Zeiler Commission "that police had grossly mishandled the murder investigation in the Perinian affair." Gabi Last, former commissioner and commander of the Tel Aviv Central District, has been chairing Delek Group for several years. On 1 January 2020, Idan Wallance became Delek's new CEO.

Holdings

Energy and Infrastructure

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* Delek Energy 7.6%* Delek Drilling LP () 8.8%* Avner Oil & Gas Exploration LP () 5.9%Assets including holdings in:

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Tamar gas field The Tamar gas field is a natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel. The field is located in Israel's exclusive economic zone, roughly west of Haifa in waters deep. The Tamar field is considered to have proven reserves o ...

Leviathan gas field The Leviathan gas field is a large natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel, south-west of the Tamar gas field. The gas field is roughly west of Haifa in waters deep in the Levantine basin, a rich hydrocarbon area in ...

Tanin gas field The Tanin gas field ( he, מאגר תנין, "Crocodile reservoir" or “ Taninn reservoir”) is a natural gas reservoir located 120 km off the coast of Israel. It is the country's seventh natural gas discovery, located nearby the much large ...

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* Delek Petroleum Ltd. 00% ** Delek Europe BV 00%- 1,230 gas stations and 935 convenience stores **

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00%** Delek Israel Fuel Corporation Ltd () 6.9%Israel’s second largest retail gas and lubricants supplier

Infrastructure

* Independent Power Plants (IPP) *360 desalinisation plants constructed in Israel,

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, China, Spain, United States, India and

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*largest desalinisation plant in the world built in Israel

Insurance and Finance

* Phoenix Holdings Ltd. 6% ** The Phoenix Insurance Company Ltd. () *** Excellence Investments Ltd. () 5%

Automotive

* Delek Automotive Systems Ltd. () 2%- largest car dealer in Israel, importer of

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and

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vehicles The Bob Bey Property Report

Chemicals

* Gadot Biochemical Ltd.

Former Holdings

* Delek Real Estate Ltd. - a company that owned a total land area of 1.8 million m², through its subsidiaries, Delek Berlon International Ltd., Delek Global Real Estate Ltd., and adding Dankner Investments Ltd. as Dankner Real Estate's construction arm in 2004. * HOT Cable Communications Systems Ltd. *

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* The Republic Group, an insurer, was sold to

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for $140 million on April 19, 2016.

Criticism

Involvement in Israeli settlements

On 12 February 2020, the

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published a

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of 112 companies helping to further

Israeli settlement Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community considers Israeli se ...

activity in the

West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

, including

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, as well as in the occupied

Golan Heights The Golan Heights ( ar, هَضْبَةُ الْجَوْلَانِ, Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or ; he, רמת הגולן, ), or simply the Golan, is a region in the Levant spanning about . The region defined as the Golan Heights differs between di ...

. These settlements are considered illegal under international law. Delek was listed on the database on account of its "provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements" and "the use of natural resources, in particular water and land, for business purposes" in these occupied territories. On 5 July 2021,

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's largest pension fund

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said it would divest from Delek together with 15 other business entities implicated in the UN report for their links to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

References

External links

Delek website
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