Supply Chain & Sourcing Relationships
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The reviewed material identifies Wizz Air as a passenger-airline group and does not document Israeli manufacturing, procurement, warehousing, or a controlled Israeli operating subsidiary 1, 2.
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Wizz Air’s disclosed operating entities are located in Hungary, the United Kingdom, Malta, and the United Arab Emirates, while its holding company is incorporated in Jersey 1.
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The group’s public entity list is corporate disclosure rather than a confirmed complete statutory register, so it cannot alone exclude every historic, indirect, or undisclosed relationship 1.
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No public evidence identified.
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The supplied document-scoped screening found no Wizz Air reference in the reviewed UN settlement-database updates, UN Human Rights Council report, and specified civil-society materials 3, 4, 5.
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AFSC states that its Occupations database covers companies connected to defined occupation-related categories rather than every company operating in Israel, limiting the meaning of a no-entry observation 6.
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Who Profits describes its database as focused on companies commercially involved in the occupation economy, and no Wizz Air-specific profile was retrieved in the reviewed material 7.
Product Origin, Labeling & Regulatory Compliance
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The reviewed evidence concerns airline passenger services, not physical consumer products with Israeli origin labels, manufacturing inputs, or product-specific regulatory certifications 2, 8.
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Wizz Air’s FY2024 annual report records that Tel Aviv/Ben Gurion operations were suspended for safety and security reasons and resumed on 1 March 2024 2.
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The FY2024 report states that Israel remained a conflict zone under constant monitoring, with Wizz Air maintaining contact with relevant authorities and receiving intelligence-provider support 2.
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The FY2024 stock-market report attributes approximately 6% of planned Q3 capacity cancellations to the October 2023 Israel crisis and reports a decision to restart Tel Aviv operations in the final quarter of FY2024 8.
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These disclosures support air-service activity connected to Tel Aviv but do not establish Israeli product origin, an Israeli manufacturing footprint, Israeli regulatory domicile, or a physical office 2, 8.
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No public evidence identified of Wizz Air flights, offices, sales agents, or service provision in West Bank settlements, East Jerusalem settlements, or the Golan Heights.
Investment, Capital & Financial Exposure
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Wizz Air Holdings Plc is identified by the company as a Jersey company registered under number 103356, with its registered seat in St Helier, Jersey 1.
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UK Companies House records Wizz Air Holdings Plc as Wizz Air UK Limited’s sole active person with significant control, holding more than 75% of shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors 9.
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The reviewed corporate and registry materials do not document Israeli state ownership, Israeli tax residence, Preferred Technology Enterprise status, an Israeli golden-share arrangement, or Israeli critical-infrastructure designation 1, 9, 2.
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Wizz Air’s investor site lists annual reports through 2025, while the entity-focused review did not retrieve the FY2025 filing at that stage 10.
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The FY2025 annual report is available in the research record, but no primary major-holding notice, register-of-interests extract, or verified shareholding-table analysis was provided for this audit 11.
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No public evidence identified of Wizz Air investment in Israeli companies, Israeli state bonds, Israeli military entities, or settlement-linked businesses.
Operational Presence & Market Activity
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Wizz Air’s official group disclosure lists Wizz Air Hungary Ltd. in Budapest, Wizz Air UK Ltd. in Luton, Wizz Air Malta Limited in Luqa, and Wizz Air Abu Dhabi L.L.C. in Abu Dhabi 1.
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The disclosed entity list does not name an Israeli-incorporated Wizz Air operating company, although it is not represented in the research memo as a complete statutory subsidiary register 1.
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Wizz Air’s FY2024 reporting confirms Tel Aviv/Ben Gurion passenger operations and their March 2024 resumption after a safety and security suspension 2.
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The FY2024 stock-market report says demand built steadily following the planned restart of Tel Aviv operations in the final quarter of FY2024, but that report alone does not establish operations after its publication period 8.
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No public evidence identified in the reviewed material of Israeli offices, employment registrations, warehouses, tax registrations, research centres, or capital investment.
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The supplied screening’s no-hit results are limited to the specified documents and do not establish a database-wide, sector-wide, or future-period absence of activity 3, 4, 5.
Corporate Structure & Foundational Ties
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Wizz Air identifies Wizz Air Holdings Plc as the group holding company and identifies operating entities in Hungary, the United Kingdom, Malta, and the United Arab Emirates 1.
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Wizz Air’s board page identifies William A. Franke as Chair and József Váradi as Executive Director and CEO 12.
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The same board disclosure lists Charlotte Pedersen, Stephen L. Johnson, Dr Anthony Radev, Brian H. Franke, Barry Eccleston, Charlotte Andsager, Enrique Dupuy de Lome Chavarri, Anna Gatti, and Phit Lian Chong as directors 12.
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Wizz Air’s leadership page identifies Veronika Spanarova as CFO, Ian Malin as Chief Commercial Officer, and Diarmuid O’Conghaile as COO 13.
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At the July 2025 AGM, shareholders re-elected Barry Eccleston, Charlotte Pedersen, Charlotte Andsager, Enrique Dupuy de Lome Chavarri, Anthony Radev, Anna Gatti, and Phit Lian Chong, and Wizz Air reported 103,402,180 total voting rights as of 21 July 2025 14.
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No public evidence identified in the reviewed material of Israeli founding, Israeli headquarters, Israeli government board appointments, or an Israeli-controlled parent entity.
Profit Repatriation & Economic Contribution
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The research record supports Wizz Air’s corporate links to Jersey, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Malta, and the United Arab Emirates, rather than identifying Israeli tax residence or an Israeli operating subsidiary 1.
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Tel Aviv flight operations may generate ordinary airline revenue connected to passenger service, but the reviewed filings do not quantify Israeli revenue, profit, payroll, tax payments, supplier expenditure, or repatriated funds 2, 8.
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No public evidence identified of Israeli tax registrations, Israeli profit repatriation, Israeli dividends, Israeli capital investments, or quantified economic contribution.
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A 2014 US Federal Election Commission filing records a receipt row naming William A. Franke and Indigo Partners LLC in connection with Zinke for Congress, but it does not establish an Israel-, Palestine-, settlement-, or occupation-related purpose 15.
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A University of London donor report states that József Váradi pledged support for scholarships through the Váradi Scholarships programme, intended to support up to 100 students over ten years, without identifying an Israel/Palestine-related recipient or purpose 16.
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No primary evidence was located in the reviewed material of Wizz Air or identified principals funding Israeli political organisations, settlement bodies, Israeli state bonds, military entities, or Israel/Palestine advocacy organisations.
Footnotes
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https://ssr-weu2.wizzair.com/en-gb/information-and-services/about-us/company-information ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9
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https://www.wizzair.com/cms/api/docs/default-source/downloadable-documents/corporate-website-transfer-documents/annual-reports/wizz_air-annual-report-and-accounts-f24_web.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8
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https://www.wizzair.com/cms/api/docs/default-source/downloadable-documents/corporate-website-transfer-documents/results-and-presentations/wizz-air-holdings-stock-market-report-f24_vf.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10982241/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2
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https://corporate.wizzair.com/investors/business-results-calendar/ ↩
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https://filemanager-cdn.mziq.com/published/f33cff8c-9600-4e77-8b65-b797eb10bc4e/b48ff962-b286-44d9-9b8c-f1c588dacfb7_wizz_air_holdings_plc_annual_report_and_accounts_f25.pdf ↩
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https://corporate.wizzair.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/ ↩ ↩2
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https://corporate.wizzair.com/corporate-governance/leadership-team/ ↩
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https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/wizz-air-holdings - wizz/result-of-agm/8996604 ↩
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https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/318/14942369318/14942369318.pdf ↩
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https://www.london.ac.uk/sites/default/files/leaflets/UoL%20Donor%20Report%202020.pdf ↩