ICL Group Ltd.
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איי.סי.אל גרופ בע"מ
Head office: Millennium Tower, 23 Aranha St., Tel Aviv, 61202 Israel Tel.: +972-36844400
ICL Group, formerly Israel Chemicals Ltd., is an Israeli multinational manufacturing company engaged in the production, manufacture and marketing of potash, phosphate, fertilizers, and chemicals for the agriculture, energy, industry, and health & personal care markets. In addition, the company supplies white phosphorus for the production of ammunition for the US Department of Defense. The company is also engaged in the extraction of salts, minerals and phosphate in Spain, the United Kingdom, and China.
Through its fully owned subsidiaries, the Group is engaged in the extraction of occupied natural resources in the occupied West Bank and provides services to settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Syrian Golan.
Exploitation of Occupied Natural Resources
ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Dead Sea Works Ltd. is engaged in the extraction of minerals from the Dead Sea, including from its northern Basin in the occupied West Bank. The company is one of the world’s largest producers and suppliers of potash products, in addition to a range of chemical products. The company has 37 extraction ponds covering an area of 146.7 square kilometers in the Dead Sea, in addition to associated processing facilities.
Dead Sea Works holds a concession from the Israeli government to utilize the natural resources of the Dead Sea until March 31, 2030. The concession covers an area of 652 square meters and allows the company to construct and expand pumping stations, roads, wells, drillings and other facilities in the Dead Sea. The company pays royalties and lease payments to the Israeli government.
DSW extracts salt, metal magnesium, magnesium chloride, potash, and bromide from the Northern Basin of the Dead Sea, which is located in the occupied West Bank. The company has pumping stations and a feeding canal located in the Northern Basin from where it pumps brine into evaporation ponds located in the Southern Basin.
In 2025, ICL pumped approximately 476 million cubic meters of water from the Northern Basin into its evaporation ponds, producing approximately 3.57 million tons of potash from the Dead Sea, as well as 150,000 tons of bromine, 17,800 tons of metal magnesium, 185,000 tons of salt and 112,000 tons of solid magnesium chloride. As of December 31, 2025, the company had 97.7 million tons of potash reserves compared to 122.7 million tons as of December 31, 2024, a decrease of 25 million tons due to ongoing extraction operations.
Naqab
ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Rotem Amfert Negev (also known as ICL Rotem), is engaged in the mining of phosphate rock from phosphate deposits in the Naqab region. The company operates two phosphate mining fields in the Naqab area, the Rotem Field and the Zafir Field (Oron-Zin). The company holds a concession for phosphate mining in the Naqab for a total period of over sixty years. In December 2024, the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure renewed the company’s mining concession in an area spanning 177.8 square kilometers until 31 December 2044.
For more on industrial development projects in the Naqab, see Who Profits’ report Tools of Dispossession in the Naqab: Development and Military Projects.
Services to Settlements
In June 2019, products manufactured by ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd., were documented in several agricultural settlements in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, including the settlements of Naama, Mehola and Na’aran.
ICL Group’s customer retention services include regional agronomists for the Jordan Valley, the occupied Syrian Golan and the occupied West Bank.
In 2016-2017, the company participated in an agricultural experiment in almond trees in an orchard in Ramat Magshimim settlement in the Syrian Golan, testing the impact of its humic acids fertilizer Oded.
In 2014, company fertilizers were used in an agricultural experiment conducted by the Jordan Valley R&D Center on the use of pesticides in bell peppers in Tomer settlement.
ICL Group, formerly Israel Chemicals Ltd., is an Israeli multinational manufacturing company engaged in the production, manufacture and marketing of potash, phosphate, fertilizers, and chemicals for the agriculture, energy, industry, and health & personal care markets. In addition, the company supplies white phosphorus for the production of ammunition for the US Department of Defense. The company is also engaged in the extraction of salts, minerals and phosphate in Spain, the United Kingdom, and China.
Through its fully owned subsidiaries, the Group is engaged in the extraction of occupied natural resources in the occupied West Bank and provides services to settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Syrian Golan.
Exploitation of Occupied Natural Resources
ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Dead Sea Works Ltd. is engaged in the extraction of minerals from the Dead Sea, including from its northern Basin in the occupied West Bank. The company is one of the world’s largest producers and suppliers of potash products, in addition to a range of chemical products. The company has 37 extraction ponds covering an area of 146.7 square kilometers in the Dead Sea, in addition to associated processing facilities.
Dead Sea Works holds a concession from the Israeli government to utilize the natural resources of the Dead Sea until March 31, 2030. The concession covers an area of 652 square meters and allows the company to construct and expand pumping stations, roads, wells, drillings and other facilities in the Dead Sea. The company pays royalties and lease payments to the Israeli government.
DSW extracts salt, metal magnesium, magnesium chloride, potash, and bromide from the Northern Basin of the Dead Sea, which is located in the occupied West Bank. The company has pumping stations and a feeding canal located in the Northern Basin from where it pumps brine into evaporation ponds located in the Southern Basin.
In 2025, ICL pumped approximately 476 million cubic meters of water from the Northern Basin into its evaporation ponds, producing approximately 3.57 million tons of potash from the Dead Sea, as well as 150,000 tons of bromine, 17,800 tons of metal magnesium, 185,000 tons of salt and 112,000 tons of solid magnesium chloride. As of December 31, 2025, the company had 97.7 million tons of potash reserves compared to 122.7 million tons as of December 31, 2024, a decrease of 25 million tons due to ongoing extraction operations.
Naqab
ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Rotem Amfert Negev (also known as ICL Rotem), is engaged in the mining of phosphate rock from phosphate deposits in the Naqab region. The company operates two phosphate mining fields in the Naqab area, the Rotem Field and the Zafir Field (Oron-Zin). The company holds a concession for phosphate mining in the Naqab for a total period of over sixty years. In December 2024, the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure renewed the company’s mining concession in an area spanning 177.8 square kilometers until 31 December 2044.
For more on industrial development projects in the Naqab, see Who Profits’ report Tools of Dispossession in the Naqab: Development and Military Projects.
Services to Settlements
In June 2019, products manufactured by ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd., were documented in several agricultural settlements in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, including the settlements of Naama, Mehola and Na’aran.
ICL Group’s customer retention services include regional agronomists for the Jordan Valley, the occupied Syrian Golan and the occupied West Bank.
In 2016-2017, the company participated in an agricultural experiment in almond trees in an orchard in Ramat Magshimim settlement in the Syrian Golan, testing the impact of its humic acids fertilizer Oded.
In 2014, company fertilizers were used in an agricultural experiment conducted by the Jordan Valley R&D Center on the use of pesticides in bell peppers in Tomer settlement.
ICL Group, formerly Israel Chemicals Ltd., is an Israeli multinational manufacturing company engaged in the production, manufacture and marketing of potash, phosphate, fertilizers, and chemicals for the agriculture, energy, industry, and health & personal care markets. In addition, the company supplies white phosphorus for the production of ammunition for the US Department of Defense. The company is also engaged in the extraction of salts, minerals and phosphate in Spain, the United Kingdom, and China.
Through its fully owned subsidiaries, the Group is engaged in the extraction of occupied natural resources in the occupied West Bank and provides services to settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Syrian Golan.
Exploitation of Occupied Natural Resources
ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Dead Sea Works Ltd. is engaged in the extraction of minerals from the Dead Sea, including from its northern Basin in the occupied West Bank. The company is one of the world’s largest producers and suppliers of potash products, in addition to a range of chemical products. The company has 37 extraction ponds covering an area of 146.7 square kilometers in the Dead Sea, in addition to associated processing facilities.
Dead Sea Works holds a concession from the Israeli government to utilize the natural resources of the Dead Sea until March 31, 2030. The concession covers an area of 652 square meters and allows the company to construct and expand pumping stations, roads, wells, drillings and other facilities in the Dead Sea. The company pays royalties and lease payments to the Israeli government.
DSW extracts salt, metal magnesium, magnesium chloride, potash, and bromide from the Northern Basin of the Dead Sea, which is located in the occupied West Bank. The company has pumping stations and a feeding canal located in the Northern Basin from where it pumps brine into evaporation ponds located in the Southern Basin.
In 2025, ICL pumped approximately 476 million cubic meters of water from the Northern Basin into its evaporation ponds, producing approximately 3.57 million tons of potash from the Dead Sea, as well as 150,000 tons of bromine, 17,800 tons of metal magnesium, 185,000 tons of salt and 112,000 tons of solid magnesium chloride. As of December 31, 2025, the company had 97.7 million tons of potash reserves compared to 122.7 million tons as of December 31, 2024, a decrease of 25 million tons due to ongoing extraction operations.
Naqab
ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Rotem Amfert Negev (also known as ICL Rotem), is engaged in the mining of phosphate rock from phosphate deposits in the Naqab region. The company operates two phosphate mining fields in the Naqab area, the Rotem Field and the Zafir Field (Oron-Zin). The company holds a concession for phosphate mining in the Naqab for a total period of over sixty years. In December 2024, the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure renewed the company’s mining concession in an area spanning 177.8 square kilometers until 31 December 2044.
For more on industrial development projects in the Naqab, see Who Profits’ report Tools of Dispossession in the Naqab: Development and Military Projects.
Services to Settlements
In June 2019, products manufactured by ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd., were documented in several agricultural settlements in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, including the settlements of Naama, Mehola and Na’aran.
ICL Group’s customer retention services include regional agronomists for the Jordan Valley, the occupied Syrian Golan and the occupied West Bank.
In 2016-2017, the company participated in an agricultural experiment in almond trees in an orchard in Ramat Magshimim settlement in the Syrian Golan, testing the impact of its humic acids fertilizer Oded.
In 2014, company fertilizers were used in an agricultural experiment conducted by the Jordan Valley R&D Center on the use of pesticides in bell peppers in Tomer settlement.
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ICL Group Ltd.
איי.סי.אל גרופ בע"מ
Head office: Millennium Tower, 23 Aranha St., Tel Aviv, 61202 Israel Tel.: +972-36844400
ICL Group, formerly Israel Chemicals Ltd., is an Israeli multinational manufacturing company engaged in the production, manufacture and marketing of potash, phosphate, fertilizers, and chemicals for the agriculture, energy, industry, and health & personal care markets. In addition, the company supplies white phosphorus for the production of ammunition for the US Department of Defense. The company is also engaged in the extraction of salts, minerals and phosphate in Spain, the United Kingdom, and China.
Through its fully owned subsidiaries, the Group is engaged in the extraction of occupied natural resources in the occupied West Bank and provides services to settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Syrian Golan.
Exploitation of Occupied Natural Resources
ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Dead Sea Works Ltd. is engaged in the extraction of minerals from the Dead Sea, including from its northern Basin in the occupied West Bank. The company is one of the world’s largest producers and suppliers of potash products, in addition to a range of chemical products. The company has 37 extraction ponds covering an area of 146.7 square kilometers in the Dead Sea, in addition to associated processing facilities.
Dead Sea Works holds a concession from the Israeli government to utilize the natural resources of the Dead Sea until March 31, 2030. The concession covers an area of 652 square meters and allows the company to construct and expand pumping stations, roads, wells, drillings and other facilities in the Dead Sea. The company pays royalties and lease payments to the Israeli government.
DSW extracts salt, metal magnesium, magnesium chloride, potash, and bromide from the Northern Basin of the Dead Sea, which is located in the occupied West Bank. The company has pumping stations and a feeding canal located in the Northern Basin from where it pumps brine into evaporation ponds located in the Southern Basin.
In 2025, ICL pumped approximately 476 million cubic meters of water from the Northern Basin into its evaporation ponds, producing approximately 3.57 million tons of potash from the Dead Sea, as well as 150,000 tons of bromine, 17,800 tons of metal magnesium, 185,000 tons of salt and 112,000 tons of solid magnesium chloride. As of December 31, 2025, the company had 97.7 million tons of potash reserves compared to 122.7 million tons as of December 31, 2024, a decrease of 25 million tons due to ongoing extraction operations.
Naqab
ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Rotem Amfert Negev (also known as ICL Rotem), is engaged in the mining of phosphate rock from phosphate deposits in the Naqab region. The company operates two phosphate mining fields in the Naqab area, the Rotem Field and the Zafir Field (Oron-Zin). The company holds a concession for phosphate mining in the Naqab for a total period of over sixty years. In December 2024, the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure renewed the company’s mining concession in an area spanning 177.8 square kilometers until 31 December 2044.
For more on industrial development projects in the Naqab, see Who Profits’ report Tools of Dispossession in the Naqab: Development and Military Projects.
Services to Settlements
In June 2019, products manufactured by ICL Group’s fully owned subsidiary, Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd., were documented in several agricultural settlements in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, including the settlements of Naama, Mehola and Na’aran.
ICL Group’s customer retention services include regional agronomists for the Jordan Valley, the occupied Syrian Golan and the occupied West Bank.
In 2016-2017, the company participated in an agricultural experiment in almond trees in an orchard in Ramat Magshimim settlement in the Syrian Golan, testing the impact of its humic acids fertilizer Oded.
In 2014, company fertilizers were used in an agricultural experiment conducted by the Jordan Valley R&D Center on the use of pesticides in bell peppers in Tomer settlement.
Ownership
The company is publicly traded on the New York and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchanges under the ticker symbol: ICL.
(TASE, NYSE: ICL)
Major shareholders include: Israel Corporation Ltd. (43.93%), Migdal Insurance (6.87%), Phoenix Financial (7.71%), Altushler-Shaham Investment House (5.01%).
President and CEO: Elad Aharonson.
Subsidiaries
Fully owned Israeli subsidiaries: ICL Israel Ltd., Dead Sea Works Ltd., Dead Sea Bromine Company Ltd., Rotem Amfert Negev Ltd., Mifalei Tovala Ltd., Dead Sea Magnesium Ltd., Bromine Compounds Ltd., Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.
Fully owned international subsidiaries: Iberpotash S.A., Fuentes Fertilizantes S.L., ICL Europe Cooperatief U.A., ICL Europe B.V., ICL IP Terneuzen B.V, ICL Finance BV, Everris International B.V., ICL Puriphos B.V., ICL-IP America Inc, ICL Specialty Products Inc, Everris NA, Inc., Growers Holdings, Inc., BK Giulini GmbH, ICL Holding Germany GmbH, ICL Bitterfeld GmbH, Prolactal GmbH, Cleveland Potash Ltd., Everris Ltd., ICL America do Sul, ICL Investment Co. Ltd., ICL Aditivos E Ingredientes LTDA, ICL Asia Ltd., ICL Trading (HK) Ltd., Scora S.A.S., France.
Additional subsidiaries: Yunnan Phosphate Haikou Co. Ltd. (50%).
Partners
SproutX Inc, General Mills, Shenzhen Dynanonic Co., AMP Holdings, Kernal UA
* This section refers to the company's general business partners
Company Response
Settlements
Mechola | Na’ama | Niran (Na’aran) | Ramat Magshimim | Tomer