Modi'in Ezrachi
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מודיעין אזרחי בע"מ
Head office: Sderot Sha'ul HaMelech 35, Tel Aviv-Jaffa 6492702, Israel. Tel.: +972-1-700-700-617
A private Israeli security group that provides security and guarding, armed courier and patrol and surveillance services. The company is one of the largest private security companies in the Israeli market.
Services for the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Between August 2023 and February 2024, the company operated a postal facility in Bitunya Checkpoint in the occupied West Bank for the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) for a total of NIS 1,883,835.
In 2018, the compamy was contracted by the ICA to provide security services at the Civil Administration’s headquarter complex in the settlement of Beit El in the occupied West Bank for NIS 20,480,586.
In 2007, the company provided security and guarding services in occupied East Jerusalem for the ICA.
Security Services for Settlements
Security services for settlers in East Jerusalem
The company provides security and guarding services for Israeli settlers, settlement compounds, and settlers' shops and facilities in occupied East Jerusalem, under a contract with the Ministry of Construction and Housing.
Since the end of the 1990s, the Ministry of Construction and Housing holds the administrative authority and responsibility for the operation of security activities for settlers in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and Jewish settlement compounds in East Jerusalem through an external service provider. For the purpose of providing these security services, the Ministry of Construction and Housing has contracted Modiin Ezrachi which won the tenders conducted by the Ministry starting in 1999.
In September 2010, a security guard working for Modi’in Ezrachi shot and killed a Palestinian resident of Silwan in East Jerusalem.
Between 2021 and 2023, the company provided the Ministry of Construction and Housing security services in occupied East Jerusalem, including security and guarding services for Israeli settlers residing in settlement compounds located in Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem. The services included security services in settlement compounds in the City of David, a settler compound located in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, and in Kfar Hateimanim (Ha-Shiloaḥ), which includes several settlers’ compounds located within the Palestinian neighborhoods of Batn al-Hawa and Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem. The services included guarding and escorting the residents.
In May 2023, the company won a tender by the Ministry of Housing and Construction for security and guarding services at facilities in occupied East Jerusalem.
The tender includes the provision of security services in the area of the Old City: the Old City, and the Western Wall Tunnel tourist site which passes under the houses of the Muslim Quarter; the City of David area: the settlement neighborhoods of Kfar Hateimanim, Kidmat Zion (located within the Palestinian neighborhood of Abu Dis) and Nof Tsiyon (located within the Palestinian neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber), and the Palestinian neighborhoods of Abu Tor and Abu Dis; Mount Olives area: Ras al-Amud, the settlement neighborhood of Beit Orot, Mount of Olives, and Shim'on HaTsadik Tomb (in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah), for 12 months with the option to extend for additional periods of up to 48 additional months.
The services include the securing of the Jewish residents in occupied East Jerusalem; guarding and securing houses, apartments, shops, buildings and tourist sites, yeshivas and places of study; Secure, foot and mobile escort services in East Jerusalem; Static guarding and security services and walking tours in East Jerusalem; Operation of control and control centers in the City of David, the Old City, and the Mount of Olives Ridge; Operating a set of technological centers to manage all the means of the protection systems, control and monitoring of the escort system; Operation of stone-protected patrol vehicles in East Jerusalem for patrolling; operation of protected shuttle vehicles for the residents; and guarding, security and escorting visitors to the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
Between January and June 2023, the company received for these services a total of NIS 15,577,385. In 2022, the company received NIS 29,484,496; and in 2021 NIS 45,061,880.
In June 2023, the company published a job ad for the recruitment of security guards for the City of David.
In August 2022, the company was contracted by the company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem to provide janitorial and security services.
The Jerusalem Light Rail
The company provides security services to the Jerusalem Light Rail, which connects settlement neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem to the western part of the city.
In June 2011, the company won the tender for the security of the JLR. In November 2023, the company won an additional tender issued by the Jerusalem municipality for security services for the Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR).
In May 2024, the company recruited security guards, patrollers and bikers for the JLR security unit, and call operators for the JLR operational security center. In June 2024, the company published a job ad specifically for recruiting ex combat soldiers for the JLR security.
For more on the JLR, see Who Profits’ reports Developments in the Expansion of the JLR Network: The J-Net Project and Developments in the Expansion of the JLR Network: The Blue Line.
Services for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the West Bank
The company provides security services and security guards to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for accompanying tours in the occupied West Bank and in the Old City in Jerusalem.
In January 2023, the company provided the Ministry with security services for a tour in the occupied West Bank. In February 2022, the company provided security services for a cadet course as part of a tour to Al- Aqsa. In 2021, the company provided security escort services for the Ministry during tours in the occupied West Bank in November and December.
In 2018, the company provided security escort services for the Ministry during tours in the occupied West Bank, including two tours in the settlements of Barkan and Peduel and two tours in Gush Etzion and Hebron. The company also provided two security guards for two additional tours in the Shomron area in the West Bank.
In 2017, the company provided security escort services for cadets during two tours in Al-Aqsa and two tours in the Old City two in Jerusalem, and in settlements in the occupied West Bank, including four tours in Hebron and two tours in Gush Etzion.
Additional Services for Settlements
The company operates a branch in the settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank through which it provides security services to settlements and settlers in the area.
In 2022, the company provided security guards for perimeter security in the Ariel settlement, including security of schools and kindergartens and the university in the settlement.
The company provides security guards for the Ministry of Interior facilities in the settlements of Ariel and Ma'ale Adumim in the occupied West Bank. In addition, the company provides security services for the National Insurance (Bituah Leumi) security unit in Ma’ale Adumim.
In June 2024, the company published a job ad for recruiting security guards for securing houses of ministers in the Jewish settlement in Hebron in the occupied West Bank for the Prime Minister's Office.
The company provides security services for the Population Immigration and Border Authority's facilities, including a facility in the settlement of Katzrin in the occupied Syrian Golan.
In 2022, the company provided security services for educational institutions in the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim.
In 2019, the company published a job ad for security guards to work in factories located in the Barkan settlement Industrial Zone in the West Bank. Also in 2019, the company won tenders for provision of security and guarding services in the settlement of Kokhav Yaakov.
Services for Ariel University
In 2019 and 2021, the company was awarded a contract to provide security services to Ariel University in the Ariel settlement in the occupied West Bank.
In June 2024, the company published a job ad for security and patrol guards for the university. In November 2023, the company published a job ad for the security unit for managing the Ariel university project.
Previously, the company has provided security for settlement regional councils in the occupied West Bank, including the settlements of Ariel, Oranit, Sha’arei Tikva, Barkan, Yakir, Ma’ale Shomron, Kiryat Arba and Ma’ale Adumim, and to businesses in the Mishor Adumim Industrial Zone. In 2010, the company was contracted to provide security services to the Mount Hebron settlement regional council.
Services to Israel Police
In 2021, the company was awarded a contract with the Israeli police to provide security services for police facilities.
Checkpoints
By the end of 2005, the Israeli Ministry of Defense published the first tenders for the operation of checkpoints as part of the privatization project of Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank. In 2008, Modi’in Ezrachi was one of two companies that won the tender for the operation of several checkpoints for NIS 5.64 million. As part of the tender, Modi’in Ezrachi operated the Jalameh (Gilboa), Barta'a (Reihan), Eyal, Hotze Shomron (Highway 5), Qalandia, Sheikh Sa’ad, Anata, and Al-Jib (Givat Ze’ev) checkpoints in the occupied West Bank and the Jerusalem Envelope.
In 2016, Modiin Ezrachi security guards shot to death a brother and sister, aged 16 and 23, at the Qalandiya checkpoint. Since 2019, these checkpoints have been operated by T & M Protection Resources Holdings Israel.
A private Israeli security group that provides security and guarding, armed courier and patrol and surveillance services. The company is one of the largest private security companies in the Israeli market.
Services for the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Between August 2023 and February 2024, the company operated a postal facility in Bitunya Checkpoint in the occupied West Bank for the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) for a total of NIS 1,883,835.
In 2018, the compamy was contracted by the ICA to provide security services at the Civil Administration’s headquarter complex in the settlement of Beit El in the occupied West Bank for NIS 20,480,586.
In 2007, the company provided security and guarding services in occupied East Jerusalem for the ICA.
Security Services for Settlements
Security services for settlers in East Jerusalem
The company provides security and guarding services for Israeli settlers, settlement compounds, and settlers' shops and facilities in occupied East Jerusalem, under a contract with the Ministry of Construction and Housing.
Since the end of the 1990s, the Ministry of Construction and Housing holds the administrative authority and responsibility for the operation of security activities for settlers in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and Jewish settlement compounds in East Jerusalem through an external service provider. For the purpose of providing these security services, the Ministry of Construction and Housing has contracted Modiin Ezrachi which won the tenders conducted by the Ministry starting in 1999.
In September 2010, a security guard working for Modi’in Ezrachi shot and killed a Palestinian resident of Silwan in East Jerusalem.
Between 2021 and 2023, the company provided the Ministry of Construction and Housing security services in occupied East Jerusalem, including security and guarding services for Israeli settlers residing in settlement compounds located in Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem. The services included security services in settlement compounds in the City of David, a settler compound located in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, and in Kfar Hateimanim (Ha-Shiloaḥ), which includes several settlers’ compounds located within the Palestinian neighborhoods of Batn al-Hawa and Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem. The services included guarding and escorting the residents.
In May 2023, the company won a tender by the Ministry of Housing and Construction for security and guarding services at facilities in occupied East Jerusalem.
The tender includes the provision of security services in the area of the Old City: the Old City, and the Western Wall Tunnel tourist site which passes under the houses of the Muslim Quarter; the City of David area: the settlement neighborhoods of Kfar Hateimanim, Kidmat Zion (located within the Palestinian neighborhood of Abu Dis) and Nof Tsiyon (located within the Palestinian neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber), and the Palestinian neighborhoods of Abu Tor and Abu Dis; Mount Olives area: Ras al-Amud, the settlement neighborhood of Beit Orot, Mount of Olives, and Shim'on HaTsadik Tomb (in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah), for 12 months with the option to extend for additional periods of up to 48 additional months.
The services include the securing of the Jewish residents in occupied East Jerusalem; guarding and securing houses, apartments, shops, buildings and tourist sites, yeshivas and places of study; Secure, foot and mobile escort services in East Jerusalem; Static guarding and security services and walking tours in East Jerusalem; Operation of control and control centers in the City of David, the Old City, and the Mount of Olives Ridge; Operating a set of technological centers to manage all the means of the protection systems, control and monitoring of the escort system; Operation of stone-protected patrol vehicles in East Jerusalem for patrolling; operation of protected shuttle vehicles for the residents; and guarding, security and escorting visitors to the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
Between January and June 2023, the company received for these services a total of NIS 15,577,385. In 2022, the company received NIS 29,484,496; and in 2021 NIS 45,061,880.
In June 2023, the company published a job ad for the recruitment of security guards for the City of David.
In August 2022, the company was contracted by the company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem to provide janitorial and security services.
The Jerusalem Light Rail
The company provides security services to the Jerusalem Light Rail, which connects settlement neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem to the western part of the city.
In June 2011, the company won the tender for the security of the JLR. In November 2023, the company won an additional tender issued by the Jerusalem municipality for security services for the Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR).
In May 2024, the company recruited security guards, patrollers and bikers for the JLR security unit, and call operators for the JLR operational security center. In June 2024, the company published a job ad specifically for recruiting ex combat soldiers for the JLR security.
For more on the JLR, see Who Profits’ reports Developments in the Expansion of the JLR Network: The J-Net Project and Developments in the Expansion of the JLR Network: The Blue Line.
Services for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the West Bank
The company provides security services and security guards to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for accompanying tours in the occupied West Bank and in the Old City in Jerusalem.
In January 2023, the company provided the Ministry with security services for a tour in the occupied West Bank. In February 2022, the company provided security services for a cadet course as part of a tour to Al- Aqsa. In 2021, the company provided security escort services for the Ministry during tours in the occupied West Bank in November and December.
In 2018, the company provided security escort services for the Ministry during tours in the occupied West Bank, including two tours in the settlements of Barkan and Peduel and two tours in Gush Etzion and Hebron. The company also provided two security guards for two additional tours in the Shomron area in the West Bank.
In 2017, the company provided security escort services for cadets during two tours in Al-Aqsa and two tours in the Old City two in Jerusalem, and in settlements in the occupied West Bank, including four tours in Hebron and two tours in Gush Etzion.
Additional Services for Settlements
The company operates a branch in the settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank through which it provides security services to settlements and settlers in the area.
In 2022, the company provided security guards for perimeter security in the Ariel settlement, including security of schools and kindergartens and the university in the settlement.
The company provides security guards for the Ministry of Interior facilities in the settlements of Ariel and Ma'ale Adumim in the occupied West Bank. In addition, the company provides security services for the National Insurance (Bituah Leumi) security unit in Ma’ale Adumim.
In June 2024, the company published a job ad for recruiting security guards for securing houses of ministers in the Jewish settlement in Hebron in the occupied West Bank for the Prime Minister's Office.
The company provides security services for the Population Immigration and Border Authority's facilities, including a facility in the settlement of Katzrin in the occupied Syrian Golan.
In 2022, the company provided security services for educational institutions in the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim.
In 2019, the company published a job ad for security guards to work in factories located in the Barkan settlement Industrial Zone in the West Bank. Also in 2019, the company won tenders for provision of security and guarding services in the settlement of Kokhav Yaakov.
Services for Ariel University
In 2019 and 2021, the company was awarded a contract to provide security services to Ariel University in the Ariel settlement in the occupied West Bank.
In June 2024, the company published a job ad for security and patrol guards for the university. In November 2023, the company published a job ad for the security unit for managing the Ariel university project.
Previously, the company has provided security for settlement regional councils in the occupied West Bank, including the settlements of Ariel, Oranit, Sha’arei Tikva, Barkan, Yakir, Ma’ale Shomron, Kiryat Arba and Ma’ale Adumim, and to businesses in the Mishor Adumim Industrial Zone. In 2010, the company was contracted to provide security services to the Mount Hebron settlement regional council.
Services to Israel Police
In 2021, the company was awarded a contract with the Israeli police to provide security services for police facilities.
Checkpoints
By the end of 2005, the Israeli Ministry of Defense published the first tenders for the operation of checkpoints as part of the privatization project of Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank. In 2008, Modi’in Ezrachi was one of two companies that won the tender for the operation of several checkpoints for NIS 5.64 million. As part of the tender, Modi’in Ezrachi operated the Jalameh (Gilboa), Barta'a (Reihan), Eyal, Hotze Shomron (Highway 5), Qalandia, Sheikh Sa’ad, Anata, and Al-Jib (Givat Ze’ev) checkpoints in the occupied West Bank and the Jerusalem Envelope.
In 2016, Modiin Ezrachi security guards shot to death a brother and sister, aged 16 and 23, at the Qalandiya checkpoint. Since 2019, these checkpoints have been operated by T & M Protection Resources Holdings Israel.
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Modi'in Ezrachi
מודיעין אזרחי בע"מ
Head office: Sderot Sha'ul HaMelech 35, Tel Aviv-Jaffa 6492702, Israel.
Tel.: +972-1-700-700-617
A private Israeli security group that provides security and guarding, armed courier and patrol and surveillance services. The company is one of the largest private security companies in the Israeli market.
Services for the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Between August 2023 and February 2024, the company operated a postal facility in Bitunya Checkpoint in the occupied West Bank for the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) for a total of NIS 1,883,835.
In 2018, the compamy was contracted by the ICA to provide security services at the Civil Administration’s headquarter complex in the settlement of Beit El in the occupied West Bank for NIS 20,480,586.
In 2007, the company provided security and guarding services in occupied East Jerusalem for the ICA.
Security Services for Settlements
Security services for settlers in East Jerusalem
The company provides security and guarding services for Israeli settlers, settlement compounds, and settlers' shops and facilities in occupied East Jerusalem, under a contract with the Ministry of Construction and Housing.
Since the end of the 1990s, the Ministry of Construction and Housing holds the administrative authority and responsibility for the operation of security activities for settlers in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and Jewish settlement compounds in East Jerusalem through an external service provider. For the purpose of providing these security services, the Ministry of Construction and Housing has contracted Modiin Ezrachi which won the tenders conducted by the Ministry starting in 1999.
In September 2010, a security guard working for Modi’in Ezrachi shot and killed a Palestinian resident of Silwan in East Jerusalem.
Between 2021 and 2023, the company provided the Ministry of Construction and Housing security services in occupied East Jerusalem, including security and guarding services for Israeli settlers residing in settlement compounds located in Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem. The services included security services in settlement compounds in the City of David, a settler compound located in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, and in Kfar Hateimanim (Ha-Shiloaḥ), which includes several settlers’ compounds located within the Palestinian neighborhoods of Batn al-Hawa and Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem. The services included guarding and escorting the residents.
In May 2023, the company won a tender by the Ministry of Housing and Construction for security and guarding services at facilities in occupied East Jerusalem.
The tender includes the provision of security services in the area of the Old City: the Old City, and the Western Wall Tunnel tourist site which passes under the houses of the Muslim Quarter; the City of David area: the settlement neighborhoods of Kfar Hateimanim, Kidmat Zion (located within the Palestinian neighborhood of Abu Dis) and Nof Tsiyon (located within the Palestinian neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber), and the Palestinian neighborhoods of Abu Tor and Abu Dis; Mount Olives area: Ras al-Amud, the settlement neighborhood of Beit Orot, Mount of Olives, and Shim'on HaTsadik Tomb (in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah), for 12 months with the option to extend for additional periods of up to 48 additional months.
The services include the securing of the Jewish residents in occupied East Jerusalem; guarding and securing houses, apartments, shops, buildings and tourist sites, yeshivas and places of study; Secure, foot and mobile escort services in East Jerusalem; Static guarding and security services and walking tours in East Jerusalem; Operation of control and control centers in the City of David, the Old City, and the Mount of Olives Ridge; Operating a set of technological centers to manage all the means of the protection systems, control and monitoring of the escort system; Operation of stone-protected patrol vehicles in East Jerusalem for patrolling; operation of protected shuttle vehicles for the residents; and guarding, security and escorting visitors to the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
Between January and June 2023, the company received for these services a total of NIS 15,577,385. In 2022, the company received NIS 29,484,496; and in 2021 NIS 45,061,880.
In June 2023, the company published a job ad for the recruitment of security guards for the City of David.
In August 2022, the company was contracted by the company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem to provide janitorial and security services.
The Jerusalem Light Rail
The company provides security services to the Jerusalem Light Rail, which connects settlement neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem to the western part of the city.
In June 2011, the company won the tender for the security of the JLR. In November 2023, the company won an additional tender issued by the Jerusalem municipality for security services for the Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR).
In May 2024, the company recruited security guards, patrollers and bikers for the JLR security unit, and call operators for the JLR operational security center. In June 2024, the company published a job ad specifically for recruiting ex combat soldiers for the JLR security.
For more on the JLR, see Who Profits’ reports Developments in the Expansion of the JLR Network: The J-Net Project and Developments in the Expansion of the JLR Network: The Blue Line.
Services for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the West Bank
The company provides security services and security guards to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for accompanying tours in the occupied West Bank and in the Old City in Jerusalem.
In January 2023, the company provided the Ministry with security services for a tour in the occupied West Bank. In February 2022, the company provided security services for a cadet course as part of a tour to Al- Aqsa. In 2021, the company provided security escort services for the Ministry during tours in the occupied West Bank in November and December.
In 2018, the company provided security escort services for the Ministry during tours in the occupied West Bank, including two tours in the settlements of Barkan and Peduel and two tours in Gush Etzion and Hebron. The company also provided two security guards for two additional tours in the Shomron area in the West Bank.
In 2017, the company provided security escort services for cadets during two tours in Al-Aqsa and two tours in the Old City two in Jerusalem, and in settlements in the occupied West Bank, including four tours in Hebron and two tours in Gush Etzion.
Additional Services for Settlements
The company operates a branch in the settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank through which it provides security services to settlements and settlers in the area.
In 2022, the company provided security guards for perimeter security in the Ariel settlement, including security of schools and kindergartens and the university in the settlement.
The company provides security guards for the Ministry of Interior facilities in the settlements of Ariel and Ma'ale Adumim in the occupied West Bank. In addition, the company provides security services for the National Insurance (Bituah Leumi) security unit in Ma’ale Adumim.
In June 2024, the company published a job ad for recruiting security guards for securing houses of ministers in the Jewish settlement in Hebron in the occupied West Bank for the Prime Minister's Office.
The company provides security services for the Population Immigration and Border Authority's facilities, including a facility in the settlement of Katzrin in the occupied Syrian Golan.
In 2022, the company provided security services for educational institutions in the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim.
In 2019, the company published a job ad for security guards to work in factories located in the Barkan settlement Industrial Zone in the West Bank. Also in 2019, the company won tenders for provision of security and guarding services in the settlement of Kokhav Yaakov.
Services for Ariel University
In 2019 and 2021, the company was awarded a contract to provide security services to Ariel University in the Ariel settlement in the occupied West Bank.
In June 2024, the company published a job ad for security and patrol guards for the university. In November 2023, the company published a job ad for the security unit for managing the Ariel university project.
Previously, the company has provided security for settlement regional councils in the occupied West Bank, including the settlements of Ariel, Oranit, Sha’arei Tikva, Barkan, Yakir, Ma’ale Shomron, Kiryat Arba and Ma’ale Adumim, and to businesses in the Mishor Adumim Industrial Zone. In 2010, the company was contracted to provide security services to the Mount Hebron settlement regional council.
Services to Israel Police
In 2021, the company was awarded a contract with the Israeli police to provide security services for police facilities.
Checkpoints
By the end of 2005, the Israeli Ministry of Defense published the first tenders for the operation of checkpoints as part of the privatization project of Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank. In 2008, Modi’in Ezrachi was one of two companies that won the tender for the operation of several checkpoints for NIS 5.64 million. As part of the tender, Modi’in Ezrachi operated the Jalameh (Gilboa), Barta'a (Reihan), Eyal, Hotze Shomron (Highway 5), Qalandia, Sheikh Sa’ad, Anata, and Al-Jib (Givat Ze’ev) checkpoints in the occupied West Bank and the Jerusalem Envelope.
In 2016, Modiin Ezrachi security guards shot to death a brother and sister, aged 16 and 23, at the Qalandiya checkpoint. Since 2019, these checkpoints have been operated by T & M Protection Resources Holdings Israel.
Ownership
The company is owned by Yahiel Dahan and Mordechai Dahan through their holdings in Margalin Holdings Ltd. and Ravid A.R. Holdings Ltd.
CEO: Meir Itzhak
Subsidiaries
Modiin Ezrachi Secured Courier Ltd. (100%), Moked Modiin Ezrachi Ltd. (100%)