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Keter Group MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
Military Score 0.00 /10 B Keter Group - Complicity Index 778
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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Available corporate, watchdog, and news sources on Keter Group contain no reference to a contract, tender award, framework agreement, or memorandum of understanding between Keter and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 no public evidence identified. SIBAT’s online Defence and HLS Directory was searched directly and returned no Keter listing; the 2018–19 official SIBAT directory’s reference to “Keter Press” is a publication credit, not evidence that Keter Group or Keter Plastic was a listed defence supplier.7, 8 no public evidence identified of Keter appearing in an Israeli defence-export directory.

No press-release or trade-press material describing defence cooperation, joint ventures, or partnership agreements between Keter and Israeli defence entities was located.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 no public evidence identified. The Israel Ministry of Defense’s Defence Procurement Directorate description does not supply evidence of Keter procurement or contracting.9

During the 29 April 2024 recapitalisation, ownership of 100% of Keter Group transferred collectively to its senior lenders, which received new shares stapled to new holding-company PIK notes.10, 11 Public transaction sources do not identify the constituent lender entities, their individual equity percentages, their beneficial owners, or lender-specific board-designation, voting, appointment, or removal rights.10, 11 no public evidence identified.

Keter Group Holding Limited, incorporated in the United Kingdom on 5 April 2024, is an active holding company; Keter’s 2024 Sustainability Report states that Keter became its wholly owned subsidiary during the 2024 creditor acquisition.12, 13 Glas Trustees Limited was recorded as a former PSC with more than 75% of shares and voting rights and rights to appoint or remove directors from 5 to 29 April 2024, but the public register does not establish whether it was an economic creditor-owner, trustee, or transaction vehicle, nor identify underlying beneficiaries.14 The current PSC register states that no registrable person or registrable relevant legal entity is known, which does not disprove collective lender ownership.14

No public evidence identified in the reviewed sources that Keter Group Holding Limited, the collectively described senior-lender group, or an individually identified current controlling owner has a documented physical-supply, construction, maintenance, or logistics relationship with Israeli military, police, prison, border, occupation, or settler-security bodies.10, 11, 14 Because no creditor-equity recipients are publicly identified, a lender-by-lender relationship review cannot be completed from the available ownership record.10, 11, 14

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Keter’s documented product range across reviewed sources consists of civilian resin household, garden, storage, and outdoor-furniture goods.1, 2, 5 no public evidence identified that Keter manufactures or markets ruggedised, tactical, mil-spec, or defence-grade product variants; targeted searches for Keter-branded ammunition crates, ordnance cases, or mil-spec ruggedised cases surfaced only unrelated third-party military-surplus suppliers.1, 2, 5

No public evidence identified of export-licence applications, end-user certificates, or export-control reviews tied to Keter sales to Israeli security end-users.1, 2, 5, 7 Keter’s 2024 Sustainability Report identifies general human-rights, labour-rights, code-of-conduct, training, and whistleblowing commitments, but the reviewed passages do not identify occupied-territory policy, settlement-end-use controls, military end-user restrictions, defence-contract disclosure, or a response to the former Barkan operation.15

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

Keter Plastic operated a manufacturing factory in the Barkan Industrial Zone, a settlement industrial park in the West Bank near Ariel established in 1981–82 on land from the Palestinian villages of Haris, Bruqin, and Sarta.1, 16, 3, 4 Keter’s then wholly owned subsidiary Lipski, acquired by Keter in 1991, reportedly also had a presence at Barkan according to secondary sources.3, 4 Who Profits’ separate company file on “Hamat Group (formerly Lipski Plastic),” reflecting a 2014 data snapshot of the Lipski-branded Barkan sanitary-ware factory, does not reference Keter ownership and lists Yoav Golan/Nior Holdings as controlling holder.17 This remains an unresolved inconsistency in the available Keter–Lipski–Barkan ownership chain.3, 4, 17

In June 2013, the United Church of Canada launched a boycott campaign against Keter, SodaStream, and Ahava, expressly citing the Barkan settlement factory.2, 3, 4 On 21 March 2014, Who Profits researchers documented two Keter-marked trucks in the closed Barkan factory yard on an inactive weekend, contradicting Keter’s contemporaneous denial.16 In 2014, Keter stated in response to European NGO queries that it “does not own any facility or operation in what the UN defines as the occupied territories”; Who Profits treated that statement as contradicted by its observation evidence.1, 16

In November 2016, Who Profits found no commercial movement, signs, or trucks at the Barkan site and concluded that Keter had ceased West Bank operations.16, 3 The closure coincides with the 2016 BC Partners/PSP Investments acquisition of Keter from the Sagol family.18, 19 The Barkan operation is assessed as discontinued since approximately 2014–2016 based on the 2016 field evidence, and no evidence of resumption after 19 July 2024 or November 2024 was identified in the preserved and refreshed record.1, 16, 20

No public evidence identified of Keter equipment, vehicles, or machinery being used in construction, demolition, or maintenance of the separation barrier, military installations, or settlement infrastructure, as distinct from Keter’s former manufacturing presence.1, 16, 3, 4 no public evidence identified of Keter construction or engineering contracts for checkpoints, detention facilities, military bases, or the separation barrier.1, 16, 3, 4

CJPME’s fact sheet cites Human Rights Watch and International Trade Union Confederation materials alleging sub-minimum wages, 12–15-hour shifts, unionisation denial, and environmental contamination of the Al-Matwi valley tied to the Barkan-era operation.4 Direct review of Human Rights Watch’s 2021 A Threshold Crossed found no mention of Keter or Barkan, so that cited source chain could not be independently verified.21

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

Targeted searches pairing Keter with Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, and IMI/Elbit Land returned no connecting results; Who Profits’ Elbit Systems company file was also reviewed and does not establish Keter as a defence-prime supplier.22 no public evidence identified of Keter supplying components, sub-systems, raw materials, or manufacturing services to those firms.22

No public evidence identified of Keter joint development, co-production, or technology-transfer agreements with Israeli defence firms.1, 2, 5, 22 A search result placing Keter Plastic and defence firms in the same statistical table in a 2016 Israeli government report does not evidence a Keter–defence-prime relationship.9

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of Keter service contracts for catering, transport, fuel, waste management, facilities maintenance, or telecommunications to IDF bases, training facilities, or detention centres in the West Bank, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, or Negev.1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Keter’s documented logistics relationships are limited to routine commercial export and retail distribution channels, including Home Depot, Costco, Walmart, Canadian Tire, Argos, and Amazon.2, 3, 23 no public evidence identified of Keter shipping, freight-forwarding, port-handling, military-cargo, or arms-shipment contracts.2, 3, 23

The 2024 recapitalisation establishes financial and legal integration between Keter and the senior-lender group collectively: the lenders acquired 100% ownership and received shares stapled to holding-company PIK notes, while Keter became a wholly owned subsidiary of Keter Group Holding Limited.10, 11, 13 no public evidence identified of operational integration between Keter and another portfolio company or business of a particular lender-owner, including any separately held defence, security, military-logistics, or settlement-related asset.10, 11, 13

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified of Keter acting as a prime contractor or licensed manufacturer of small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles, drones, naval vessels, or other lethal platforms.1, 2, 5 no public evidence identified of Keter supplying ammunition, explosive ordnance, propellants, warhead components, or munitions precursor materials.1, 2, 5

No public evidence identified of Keter involvement in Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow missile-defence systems, fighter aircraft, main battle tanks, or ballistic-missile programmes.1, 2, 5, 22 no public evidence identified of Keter supply of guidance electronics, fire-control systems, radar components, propulsion units, or warhead casings.1, 2, 5, 22

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of a government decision to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke an export licence specifically concerning Keter products for Israeli military or security end-users in any jurisdiction.1, 2, 5, 7 no public evidence identified of arms-embargo, sanctions-compliance, or export-control investigations naming Keter.1, 2, 5, 7

General UK arms-export litigation involving other companies, including the Al-Haq/GLAN F-35-components case, does not name Keter.20 no public evidence identified of court proceedings or judicial reviews naming Keter regarding defence supply to Israel.20

The OHCHR HRC 31/36/53/25 settlement-business database, including its 2023 primary PDF update and searchable OpenSanctions mirror, contains no identified entry for Keter, Keter Plastic, or Keter Group.24, 25 A deterministic full-text check likewise found no Keter mention in the 2025 OHCHR update; these results are source-scoped search absences, not definitive database-wide negative findings.24, 25

The Special Rapporteur’s A/HRC/59/23 report contains no identified Keter reference in review, including its military, surveillance, carcerality, and heavy-machinery sections, and no primary-citation trail from that report to Keter was identified.20 PAX’s June 2024 report and the reviewed Al-Haq July 2024 business-and-human-rights report contain no identified Keter reference.26, 27

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

Who Profits maintains an active company file on Keter documenting the historical Barkan settlement factory, the disputed 2014 denial, and its 2014–2016 withdrawal evidence.1, 16 This evidence concerns settlement manufacturing and does not establish military contracting, military logistics, construction of occupation infrastructure, or supply to defence primes.1, 16

Keter has been a named boycott target since the United Church of Canada’s June 2013 campaign and appears on contemporary BDS-aligned lists, including CJPME, UNJPPI, the Stop the Palestinian Genocide consumer-brands database, and the Masjid Al-Aqsa BDS list.2, 3, 4, 23, 28 Those campaign materials cite the ICJ’s July 2024 advisory opinion in reframing the historical Barkan operation as a boycott basis despite the documented 2016 closure evidence.16, 3, 4, 23, 28 no public evidence identified of an institutional pension-fund or sovereign-wealth-fund divestment decision specifically naming Keter.3, 4, 23, 28

Keter’s 2024 Sustainability Report resolves the prior technical-access gap by disclosing general commitments to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and ILO fundamental rights, prohibitions on child, forced, and bonded labour in its business and supply chain, and a code-of-conduct, training, and whistleblowing process.15 no public evidence identified of a formal, dated Keter policy specifically addressing occupied territories, settlement sourcing, military end-user restrictions, or the former Barkan operation.15

Secondary sources characterise the 2014–2016 Barkan closure as coinciding with the 2016 BC Partners/PSP Investments transaction and broader corporate restructuring, while campaigners attribute it to boycott pressure; available sources do not reconcile these narratives.3, 23, 18, 19

Al-Haq material referring to a “Keter unit,” an Israel Prison Service riot-suppression unit documented as intensifying force against Palestinian detainees after 7 October 2023, concerns a namesake unit rather than Keter Group.27 no public evidence identified connecting Keter Group to that prison unit.27

Keter was founded and run by Sami Sagol and, according to Who Profits, Yitzhak/Itzhak Sagol until the 2016 BC Partners/PSP Investments transaction, after which the Sagol family retained a minority stake.1, 2, 18 no public evidence identified of Sami Sagol or the Sagol family holding defence-board roles, defence-industry directorships, equity in Israeli defence primes, or making FIDF/reservist-fund donations; documented Sagol philanthropy concerns neuroscience, longevity research, and academic or medical institutions.1, 2, 18

The 2021 SEC materials identify BC Partners affiliates as then-majority shareholders and describe BC Partners-controlled holding vehicles, but those disclosures predate the 2024 creditor takeover and do not evidence current control.29, 30 no public evidence identified that BC Partners, PSP Investments, or their identified controlling principals had a defence, prison, border, occupation, or settler-security relationship attributable to Keter.18, 19, 29

Keter’s 2024 Sustainability Report describes a seven-member board led by Itzhak Wiesenfeld as of April 2025, with four independent directors and six non-executive directors; its remuneration/nominations, audit, and strategy teams respectively appoint directors and senior executives, review financial statements, and oversee implementation of group strategy.15 Companies House identifies holding-company officers including Pepijn Rene Dinandt, Gilead Halevy, Itzhak Wiesenfeld, Ehud Sagi, Jonathan Avram Kolodny, Niraj Patel, Nadav Tiomkin, John Henry Aldworth Wyatt, and company secretary Nir Palistrant.31 Corporate office is not evidence of equity ownership or defence-sector activity.31

The prior review records Wiesenfeld’s commercial security-hardware career at Assa Abloy and Mul-T-Lock, rather than a defence or military-industrial role, and identifies Udi Sagi as a long-serving Keter executive appointed CEO effective January 2025.5, 32 no public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate, registry, and prior-principal materials of defence-board roles, Israeli defence-prime directorships, FIDF/reservist-fund donations, or equity in Israeli defence primes for Wiesenfeld or Sagi.5, 32, 15, 31

Footnotes

  1. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/4060 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21 ↩22

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keter_Group ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19

  3. https://unjppi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/unsettling-goods-factsheet-keter.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16

  4. https://www.cjpme.org/fs_249 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  5. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-836621 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15

  6. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2016-08-02/ty-article/how-one-israeli-businessman-turned-plastic-into-gold/0000017f-f36f-d487-abff-f3ff7cf40000 ↩ ↩2

  7. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Industries/directory/Pages/default.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  8. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Industries/directory/Documents/Sibatdir-dfs-en-2018-19.pdf ↩

  9. https://mod.gov.il/en/departments/defense-procurement-directorate-dpd ↩ ↩2

  10. https://www.milbank.com/en/news/milbank-advises-senior-lenders-to-keter-group-on-transfer-of-ownership.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  11. https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/regulatory/article/-/view/sourceId/13088465 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  12. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15619417 ↩

  13. https://ketergroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Keter_Sustainability_Report_2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  14. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15619417/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://ketergroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Keter_Sustainability_Report_2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  16. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/133 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  17. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/4053/ar ↩ ↩2

  18. https://www.investpsp.com/en/news/bc-partners-and-psp-investments-to-acquire-keter-group-from-the-sagol-family/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  19. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-09/creditors-take-over-keter-from-bc-partners-and-psp-in-debt-deal ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  20. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  21. https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution ↩

  22. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3794 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  23. https://palestiniangenocide.org/boycott/companies/keter/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  24. https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/ps_ohchr_settlement/ ↩ ↩2

  25. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩ ↩2

  26. https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/The-Companies-Arming-Israel-and-Their-Financiers-June-2024.pdf ↩

  27. https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2025/03/22/joint-submission-to-the-special-rapporteur-on-torture-and-other-cruel-inhuman-or-degrading-treatment-24-april-2024-redacted-for-publication-1742664950.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  28. https://masjidalaqsa.com/boycott/keter-israel-bds ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  29. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1866907/000119312521274987/d145497df1.htm ↩ ↩2

  30. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1866907/000119312521286131/d145497df1a.htm ↩

  31. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15619417/officers ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  32. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tzachi-wiesenfeld-78b9a012b ↩ ↩2