Mer Group Ltd. is an Israeli

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comprising 3 autonomous business divisions, each headed by a company with subsidiaries, manufacturing facilities and logistics chains.

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The company’s share are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Mer Group has more than 30 subsidiaries. The company provides products for cellular networks (including telecom towers design and manufacture,

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and telecom implementation services), large scale security projects and broadband network technology. On 12 February 2020, the

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published a

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of companies doing business related 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

East Jerusalem East Jerusalem (, ; , ) is the sector of Jerusalem that was held by Jordan during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, as opposed to the western sector of the city, West Jerusalem, which was held by Israel. Jerusalem was envisaged as a separat ...

, 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 ...

. Mer Group was listed on the database on account of its activities in Israeli settlements in these occupied territories, which are considered illegal under international law.

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