Friends of Israel

THE LIST...

1. The Chairman and CEO of STARBUCKS, Howard Schultz, is an active =
Zionist.

In 1998 he was honored by the JerusalemFund of Aish HaTorah with 'The =
Israel50th Anniversary Friend of ZionTribute Award' for his services to =
the Zionist s tate in 'playing a key role in promoting=20
close alliance between the United Statesand Israel '.=20
At a time when other businesses were desperately pulling out of=20
Israel, Starbucks decided to help Israel 's floundering economy and=20
invest in Israel .=20
It has been revealed that Starbucks still continues to support=20
Israelby sponsoring fund raisers for Israel .


2. THE LIMITED STORES, Express, Lerner New York, VICTORIAS
SECRET and BATH & BODY WORKS:
The Limited, Inc. was founded by Leslie H. Wexner in 1963 in
Columbus, Ohio.
2,800 stores. Includes: THE LIMITED STORES, Express, Lerner New
York , VICTORIAS SECRET and BATH & BODY WORKS, and employs over
115,000 people.
Its founder, president and CEO Les Wexner is a Zionist. He is on
the board of directors of Emet, the Pro-Israel Media 'War Room' whose
function is to ensure that all media in the US stays biased in
favor of Israel.
In 1984, Les Wexner who is one of the world's 200 wealthiest people
created the Wexner Foundation. Its missio n state ment is
'strengthening Jewish Leadership in North America and Israel .
One of the programs the Foundation runs is the Wexner Israel
Fellowship Program which annually brings up to ten Israeli
have participated thus far.
The Wexner Foundation sponsors 'Birthright Israel ' - a program that
pays for young American Jews to take free indoctrination trips to
Israel.
It is also a long-standing supporter of Hillel - the bastion of
Zionism on campus.

3. THE HOME DEPOT: Its founder and co-chairman of the Board is an
active Zionist. He created the board of directors of Emet, the
Pro-Israel Media 'War Room' whose function is to ensure that all
media in the USstays biased in favor of Israel .

4. DISNEY: Walt Disneys Millennium exhibition at the Epcot
Centre in Floridadepicts Jerusalemas the capital of Israel. Of the 8
million dollars it cost to set up the exhibition, Israel
contributed 1.8 million and worked with Disney to develop its content.

5. AOL/TIME WARNER: AOL ALLOCATES 30% OF ITS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO IN ISRAEL . (Can you believe it?!)

The buy up of Israeli company Mirabilis, creators of ICQ (internet
chat program), for $287m in 1998 forms part of AOLs investment

In 1998, Mr. Ted Leonsis, CEO of AOL studios (a business unit of
AOL) received the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu. This is the highest tribute ever awarded by the 'State
of Israel ' in recognition of those individuals and organizations that through their investments and trade relationships have done the most to strengthen the Israeli economy.

6. COCA COLA: From 1966 onward Coca-Cola has been a staunch
supporter of Israel.
In 1997 the Government of Israel Economic Mission honored Coca-Cola at the Israel Trade Award Dinner for its continued support of
Israel for the last 30 years and for refusing to abide by the Arab League
boycott of Israel In contrast Pepsi abided by the Arab League boycott of Israel
which ended in May 1991, after 1992 Pepsi is also trading in
Israel.
In 2001 the Coca-Cola World Headquarters hosted and was the main
sponsor of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce Awards Gala
It has been revealed that Coca-Cola Israel sponsors training
programs for its workers on subjects including the Israeli-Arab conflict
Jewish Agency and the Israeli government.
In July 2002, it has been announced that Coca-Cola is to build a
new plant at Kiryat Gat.


7. ESTEE LAUDER: Estee Lauder's chairman, Ronald Lauder, also one time chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is the current president of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) - Ronald Lauder is an ardent Zionist.


8. SARAH LEE. (Includes Hanes, Playtex, Leggs, Champion). This is
also not to be con fus ed with the frozen snacks company. This is in
regard to the clothing giant.=20
Sara Lee owns 30% of Israel 's leading textile company Delta Galil.
Sara Lee is the world's largest clothing manufacturer, this opens
the worlds markets to Israel, with cloths originating in Israel and
being sold around the world under one of the many famous Sara Lee brands.

In 1998, Mr. Lucien Nessim of Sara Lee Personal Products received
the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is
the highest tribute ever awarded by the 'State of Israel ' in recognition of those individuals and organizations, that through
their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to
strengthen the Israeli economy.

9. FOX TELEVISION, FOX ENTERTAINMENT:
The News Corporation Limite is one of the world's largest media
companies with total assets as of September 30, 2005 of
approximately; US $58 billion and total annual revenues of approximately US$18 billion. News Corporation's diversified global operations include the production and distribution of motion pictures and television programming; television, satellite and cable broadcasting; the
publication of newspapers, magazines and books; the production and distribution of promotional and advertising products and services; the development of digital broadcasting.
News Corporation is the world's leading publisher of
English-language newspapers with operations worldwide. The Company publishes more than 175 different newspapers, printing more than 40 million papers a week.

Murdoch's New Corp. invests heavily in Israel.
Murdoch News Corporation was one of three US companies that was lauded for their support of Israel at the America-Israel Friendship League Partners for Democracy Awards dinner (25th June 2001).& nbsp;Murdoch himself co-chaired the dinner.=20
News Corp.'s digital technology company based in Jerusalem , called NDS, has grown from 20 to 600 employees in the past decade.


10. NESTLE: The swiss company owns 50.1% of Israeli food maker Osem
Investments. In dec 2000, it announced it will invest millions of
dollars to operate the new R&D centre in israel .
In 1998, Mr. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe on behalf of Nestle, received
the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is
the highest tribute ever awarded by the 'State of Israel ' in
recognition of those individuals and organizations, that through
their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to
strengthen the Israeli economy.


11. OVERSEAS ADVENTURE TRAVEL: Company is ba sed in M assachusettes,
is known for their many world tours and relatively cheap group
travel. The company donates money to over 50 countries in which it
operates in to help fund schools, food aid, etc. and averages=20
between $5,000 and $25,000 per country. However, Israel received a flat $1,000,000 from Overseas Adventure Travel, as it's president is a
Zionist.

12. IBM: IBM invests heavily in Israel . IBM senior vice-president
and general counsel, Lawrence Ricciardi, who noted that his company
employs 1,700 people in Israel, said in an interview with the
Jerusalem Post, 'This wedge of land and the huge ideals it
re presents are very important to IBM.'
IBM was one of three UScompanies that was lauded at the
America-Israel Friendship League Partners for Democracy Awards
dinner (25th June 2001 ) hosted by Sharon.
In May 2002 the Israel-America Chamber of Commerce awarded IBM the
Ambassador's Award' in recognition of its outstanding contribution
to the development of the Israeli high-tech industry and to advancing
trade between the U.S.and Israel. IBM established operations in
1949 and was the first large American company with a wholly owned
subsidiary in Israel, introducing computers to the country.


13. KIMBERLY-CLARK: (Huggies, Kotex, Kleenex) In 1998, Mr. Robert
P. Van der Merwe, chairman of Kimberly-Clark Europe received the
Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is the highest tribute ever awarded by the 'State of Israel ' in recognition of
trade relationships, have done the most to strengthen the Israeli
economy.
Kimberly Clark Corp owns 49.9% interest in Israeli company Hogla
(6/96) through America-Israel PaperMills $49.9m.


14. RIVER ISLAND clothing chain, ISROTEL and IBROTEL HOTELS in
Spain and Portugal, BRITANNIA PACIFIC PROPERTIES. (This one probably
0Arelates least to any of us) - a diversified internationa
investment company, with headquarters in London, England. They said to be one of the largest real estate o wners i n the Sacramento Metropolitan area.

It appears that the British based Lewis Trust Group is a prominent supporter of Israel.
Mr Lewis's activities have included the raising of money for the
Jewish National Fund. He is also a member of the Israel-Britain
Business Council. This organization is dedicated to the development
of the ZionistS tate, by channeling British capital to the
occupied territories for the benefit of the Zionists and the
exploitation of the Palestinians.


15. NOKIA: Nokia have started to invest heavily in Israel.
Nokia general manager Lars Wolf said in an interview with The
JerusalemPost (4 March 2001): 'We are really focusing on Israel
from all perspectives, because we have an internal project called
'Project Israel ' which means we a re looking at Israel from a networks
perspective, from the perspective of Nokia Ventures Organization,
and also from the perspective of Nokia Research Center.'
Nokia Venture Partners, a branch of Nokia Ventures Organization,
launched a new20$500 million fund in December 2000 and allowed that
a 'disproportionate' amount of it would go into Israeli companies.
Nokia Research Centeris on the lookout for Israeli start-ups with
which it can cooperate.

16. TIMBERLAND: (clothing, shoes, boots, jackets, etc.)
Timberlands is a $1.1 billion footwear, apparel & accessories
company. Its President and CEO Jeffrey Swartz is an active zionist.

In a recent 'solidarity visit' to Israel, where he made it clear he
was speaking as the CEO of Timberland, he suggested sending 100 IDF
soldiers to the USfor a week as ambassadors for Israel.

Although Timberland is a publicly traded company, his family holds
approximately 47% of the stock and has approximately 81% of the
voting power.

17. DESERT EAGLE: Desert Eagles are the only firearms that Israel does not buy from the US or other countries. However, many of the
parts of these firearms are imported from other countries and they
are merely assembled in Israel . Regardless, Israel prides them as
their own and it is strictly an Israeli company.

18. CATERPILLAR: Caterpillar is a company based in Illinois that
manufactures large construction equipment such as bulldozers,
tractors, various demolition equipment and has a line of 'tough
guy' clothing apparel. Caterpillar happily supplies Israel with all of
its current fleet of D9 and D10 bulldozers, some of the largest
armored bulldozers in the world. officials to Harvard for a year long
MPA program.