Lexus POLITICAL

Corporate Communications & Public Stance

• Israeli reporting in 2023 described Union Motors Group, identified as importer for Toyota, Lexus, Geely, and Zeekr, as mobilising vehicles, employees, logistical support, cash assistance, and support for Israeli communities affected after 7 October.^{1, 2}

• The cited reporting concerns Union Motors Group activity and is not an official Lexus or Toyota Motor Corporation statement on the conflict.^{1, 2}

• Toyota Motor Corporation stated on 3 March 2022 that it was concerned by developments in Ukraine, suspended Toyota Ukraine activities from 24 February, and halted Russian vehicle imports and St Petersburg production.³

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed official Lexus Israel and Toyota materials of an official Lexus or Toyota Motor Corporation statement specifically addressing Palestinian civilian harm, Gaza, the West Bank, October 2023, subsequent hostilities, or a call for peace; this is a source- and search-scoped finding rather than a complete archive determination.^{3, 4, 5}

• The BDS Movement’s November 2024 corporate-priority-target guide did not name Lexus in the supplied full-text scan, and no documented Lexus response to a region-specific boycott campaign was located in the reviewed material.⁶

• In a 9 December 2023 Walla Car interview, Toyota Europe President and CEO Yoshihiro Nakata stated that Toyota supported Israel and the Israeli public through Union Motors’ volunteering and donations, expressed condolences, and hoped peace would return. This is a dated statement by a Toyota regional executive, not a Lexus-branded programme announcement or evidence identifying particular military donation recipients, Toyota funding amounts, or operational control of importer activities.⁷

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

• Lexus Israel states that Lexus imports into Israel began through Lex Motors in 2006 and that Union Motors Ltd. is the current official importer.⁴

• Toyota Israel likewise identifies Union Motors Ltd. as the official importer of Toyota and Lexus vehicles in Israel, while describing the 2006 commencement of Lexus imports through Lex Motors.⁸

• Lexus Israel lists showrooms in Herzliya, Haifa, Petah Tikva, Jerusalem, Be’er Sheva, and Netanya.⁴

• Current Lexus Israel accessibility information gives the Jerusalem showroom and service-centre address as 62 Kanfei Nesharim Street, Jerusalem; Lexus Select independently lists the same address.^{9, 10}

• The official sources establish the address but do not themselves provide a legal territorial classification of it, and no Lexus operation in a West Bank settlement, occupied East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights was established by the reviewed evidence.^{9, 10}

• Lexus Israel’s terms state that its products and offers are for sale only within the State of Israel, which establishes Israeli retail activity but does not establish operations in occupied territory.⁵

• No public evidence identified of a Lexus dealership, service facility, contract, or other Lexus-branded operation in an Israeli settlement, occupied East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights; address-level review of the broader authorised-service network remains incomplete.^{4, 9, 10}

• Lexus was not named in the supplied full-text scans of the 2023 or 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database updates, a document-scoped result that does not establish the absence of other settlement-related activity.^{11, 12}

• Lexus was not named in the supplied full-text scan of the 2025 UN Special Rapporteur report From economy of occupation to economy of genocide.¹³

• AFSC Investigate and Who Profits report that Toyota Hilux and Land Cruiser pickup platforms have been used for MDT Armor “David” vehicles associated with Israeli military use, but neither source identifies a Lexus model, Lexus entity, or Lexus retail operation as contractor or supplier.^{14, 15}

• A 2023 USAspending award record is available for a U.S. Government contract cited in connection with reported Toyota-platform procurement, although the reviewed material did not independently verify all civil-society claims concerning deliveries or continuation dates.¹⁶

• A 2025 Walla Car report stated that Palsan RAM had faced vehicle-supply constraints through Toyota importer Union Motors, quoted Palsan RAM as saying Union Motors supplied vehicles and supported increased production, and reported Ministry of Defense orders for 150 armoured Hilux vehicles for emergency squads in communities around Gaza, in the north, and in settlements in the Samaria region.¹⁷

• The Palsan RAM reporting is not a disclosed Union Motors contract, Toyota Motor Corporation procurement record, or Lexus record; it identifies Toyota Hilux vehicles and Union Motors’ Toyota-importer role, not Lexus models, personnel, funds, or retail operations.¹⁷

• A March 2015 McGill student-society divestment motion named Toyota in allegations concerning companies said to profit from the occupation, but it did not identify Lexus separately or establish an ongoing relationship.¹⁸

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

• No public evidence identified of Lexus- or Union Motors-specific employment action, employee-speech discipline, litigation, union dispute, content moderation, editorial policy, settlement-product labelling, or related regulatory action concerning Israel-Palestine in the reviewed sources.^{4, 5, 11, 12, 13}

• The reviewed Lexus Israel material identifies consumer retail, leasing, and service activity, rather than a published conflict-related content or retail-policy framework.^{4, 5}

• Toyota Israel describes Union Motors as Toyota’s official marketer in Israel and states that it operates a network of 33 authorised agencies owned by private businesspeople; this establishes a local distribution and retail network, not Toyota Motor Corporation ownership of Union Motors.¹⁹

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

• Lexus Israel describes Lexus as Toyota’s luxury-vehicle division and states that the marque launched in the United States in 1989.⁴

• The available Lexus brand-history material does not position Lexus through military heritage, defence-sector origins, or Israeli state-security credentials.⁴

• No public evidence identified of Lexus accepting Israeli state honours, sponsoring a state public-relations programme, sponsoring a settlement event, or entering a non-commercial Israeli government or academic partnership connected to the conflict.^{4, 14, 15}

• The available evidence establishes commercial import and retail distribution in Israel, not a Lexus-specific non-commercial state partnership.^{4, 5, 8}

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

• Sport5 reported in 2023 that Union Motors Group used company vehicles and employees to transport food, equipment, soldiers, and evacuees, coordinated assistance to affected communities, and donated more than NIS 3 million to unspecified associations supporting evacuated and affected families.¹

• The Sport5 report does not identify the reported donation recipients as the IDF, FIDF, a settlement entity, or another military-welfare organisation, and it does not identify a Lexus vehicle as used in the reported activities.¹

• Kipa separately reported that Union Motors deployed its fleet for transport and assistance, supplied Hilux pickups to kitot konenut emergency-response squads whose vehicles had been damaged in the 7 October fighting, opened free charging points in southern Israel, and provided financial assistance to aid organisations.²

• The Kipa report does not describe the emergency-response squads as IDF units or identify the recipients of financial assistance.²

• Walla Car reported on 2 July 2024 that four large importers introduced a joint NIS 7,000 new-car discount for bereaved parents, siblings, and widows or widowers of soldiers killed in the “Iron Swords” war, with eligibility certification from Yad LaBanim or the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization.²⁰

• The Walla Car report describes the discount as fixed for the following three years in cooperation with Yad LaBanim and the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization, an announced term approximately extending to July 2027.²⁰

• The Walla Car participant list identifies Union Motors as Toyota importer and does not list Lexus or state that Lexus models were eligible.²⁰

• Because Lexus Israel identifies Union Motors as its official importer, the reported discount initiative is relevant importer-level context, but it does not establish that Lexus financed, implemented, or was included in the programme.^{4, 20}

• No public evidence identified of a current official programme document confirming implementation, continuation, renewal, withdrawal, expiry, recipient-level delivery, or Lexus-model eligibility for the NIS 7,000 scheme; the lack of a located update is not evidence of cessation.^{20, 19, 21, 22}

• The 2024 discount programme is distinct from the 2023 mobilisation: the former was a consumer discount for bereaved relatives administered through the reported bereavement-organisation certification channel, while the latter concerned transport, logistics, and unspecified financial assistance.^{1, 2, 20}

• No source reviewed establishes that Lexus vehicles were part of either the 2023 mobilisation or the 2024 programme, or that unspecified 2023 cash assistance was a direct military donation.^{1, 2, 20}

• No public evidence identified of Lexus, Toyota Motor Corporation, Union Motors, Lex Motors, or an identified principal making a verified donation to the IDF, FIDF, JNF/KKL, settlement organisations, or another military-welfare fund.^{1, 2, 14, 15}

• No public evidence identified of Lexus- or Toyota-specific lobbying, PAC activity, anti-BDS advocacy, or political-pressure-group leadership concerning Israel-Palestine; a comprehensive registry review was not completed.^{23, 24, 25}

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

• Lexus is presented in official Israeli market material as Toyota’s luxury-vehicle division rather than as a separately identified corporate issuer or parent company.^{4, 8}

• Lexus Israel’s terms state that the Lexus Israel website is managed and operated by Lex Motors Ltd., which the terms call the importer of Lexus vehicles and accessories into Israel.⁵

• The official materials therefore establish distinct public roles: Lex Motors operates the Lexus Israel site and describes itself as an importer, while Union Motors is identified as the official importer.^{4, 5, 8}

• Toyota Israel explains that a “direct authorised importer” works directly with the manufacturer and uses Union Motors’ Toyota importing activity as its example; the page does not explicitly apply that category to Lexus or establish Toyota equity ownership of Union Motors.²⁶

• No public primary source identified states that Union Motors or Lex Motors is Toyota-owned, that the Lexus appointment is exclusive, or the current ownership or control relationship between Lex Motors and Union Motors.^{4, 5, 24, 8, 26}

• Toyota’s 2025 Form 20-F does not name Union Motors or Lex Motors, a document-scoped finding that does not establish that the Israeli entities lack contractual or commercial relationships with Toyota.²⁴

• A secondary directory reports Lex Motors Ltd. as an active Israeli private company, number 513812677, incorporated on 22 March 2006, with an annual report submitted in 2025; this is a registry-data lead rather than a primary Companies Registry extract and does not establish beneficial ownership.²⁷

• The Israeli Corporations Authority provides a process for obtaining company extracts, but underlying extracts for Lex Motors Ltd. and Union Motors Ltd. were not available in the reviewed record.²⁸

• Inchcape plc stated in a 20 January 2026 FCA-filed notice that George Horesh transferred shares in Union Motors to family members, effective 31 December 2025 after approvals on 15 January 2026, and that Union was no longer owned or controlled by George Horesh.²⁹

• The Inchcape notice does not identify the family members, their respective holdings, the current ultimate beneficial owner, or a relationship to Lex Motors.²⁹

• Toyota Motor Corporation’s 2025 Integrated Report identifies Toyota Motor Corporation as the reporting company, with 585 consolidated subsidiaries and 165 equity-method affiliates as of 31 March 2025.³⁰

• Toyota’s subsequently filed Form 20-F reports 602 consolidated subsidiaries and 159 associates and joint ventures accounted for by the equity method as of 31 March 2026.³¹

• Toyota Industries Corporation held 9.14% of Toyota Motor Corporation’s outstanding shares in the 2025 Integrated Report’s major-shareholder table, and no listed shareholder exceeded 10% in that table.³⁰

• Toyota’s current stock page lists the ten largest registered shareholders as of 31 March 2026, including trust and custody institutions, Toyota Industries, insurers, DENSO, Toyota Fudosan, and AISIN, without identifying an individual controlling shareholder or providing beneficial-control analysis.³²

• Toyota’s Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026 is the current parent-level U.S. securities filing listed on Toyota’s official SEC-filings page.^{31, 25}

• Toyota announced that Akio Toyoda became Representative Director and Chairman, and Koji Sato became President and CEO, effective April 2023.³³

• Toyota’s announcement records that Sato’s immediately preceding positions included Chief Branding Officer and President of Lexus International Co.³³

• No public evidence identified of a Lexus charter, separate legal entity record, or mandate explicitly directing the brand to advance Israeli state geopolitical goals or infrastructure.^{4, 30, 24}

Executive & Leadership Footprint

• Toyota’s current executive page identifies Akio Toyoda as Chairman and Representative Director; Kenta Kon as President and Representative Director; Hiroki Nakajima and Yoichi Miyazaki as Executive Vice President Representative Directors; Shigeaki Okamoto and Kumi Fujisawa as Directors; and Koji Sato as Vice Chairman.^{34, 35}

• Toyota’s 2025 Integrated Report identified Akio Toyoda as Chairman and Koji Sato as President, Chief Executive Officer, and board member as of 1 January 2026; the current executive page supersedes that report for current-role attribution.^{30, 34}

• Lexus Israel names Dror Goralnik as its CEO, alongside sales and product, service and customer-experience, marketing, human-resources, and finance managers; this establishes an Israeli brand-management role, not ownership or Toyota Motor Corporation board status.³⁶

• Lexus’s reviewed official Israeli material does not identify a separate Lexus board, controlling owner, or independent chief executive at the parent-company level.^{4, 36}

• A 2024 Globes photograph caption identified Andrew Horech as Union Motors’ CEO at an event involving the Japanese ambassador to Israel and the charity Chaverim LeRefuah.³⁷

• The cited Globes item does not provide a political statement, military donation, or pro-Israel advocacy finding by Horech.³⁷

• Bounded searches covering Akio Toyoda, Koji Sato, Kenta Kon, and Andrew Horech or Horesh did not retrieve an independently verified personal statement, donation, fundraising role, board position, or investment concerning Israel, Palestine, Gaza, FIDF, JNF, or AIPAC; this does not constitute a comprehensive principal-level absence determination.^{37, 34, 35}

• Toyota’s 2025 shareholder-meeting notice recorded Akio Toyoda’s concurrent roles with Toyota Fudosan, DENSO, Rookie Racing, and Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team, but it predates the current executive page and is not used here as a current board list.³⁸

• Apart from the Toyota Europe executive statement recorded above, no public evidence identified of personal donations, foundation grants, IDF or settlement fundraising, relevant board affiliations, investments, or Israel-Palestine political statements by Lexus, Toyota Motor Corporation, Union Motors, or Lex Motors leadership in the reviewed sources; comprehensive individual, charity, political-finance, and beneficial-ownership research remains incomplete.^{30, 24, 37, 34, 7}