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This flash report investigates four commercial wind farm projects currently under development in the occupied Syrian Golan, exposing the involvement of the private sector in their construction and operation.

يبحث هذا التقرير في أربعة مشاريع تجارية لمزارع إنتاج الرياح، التي هي قيد التطوير حاليا في الجولان السوري المحتل، كاشفًا تورط القطاع الخاص في بناءها وتفعيلها.

Signed in 1994 by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Paris Protocol, which regulates the financial relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, de-facto formalized the structural advantages of the Israeli economy over the Palestinian one. The agreement resulted in the creation of a Palestinian captive economy that is exploited by both the Israeli state and private corporations.

In this update, Who Profits provides an overview of the Jerusalem cable car project, highlighting in particular the role of the tourism sector in facilitating Israeli colonial expansion and the involvement of one French corporation, CNA -Cable Neige Amenagement, in the project.

In this flash report, Who Profits investigates recent plans by the Israeli Ministry of Defense to build an additional hi-tech separation wall around the besieged Gaza Strip. The flash report will focus on the role of the private sector, exposing some of the private corporations that amass profits as well as marketable experience from strengthening the Israeli apparatus of control over Gazans.

In this flash report, Who Profits examines the ‘Mabat 2000’ visual surveillance program implemented in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem by the Israeli state and for-profit. Launched in the year 2000, ‘Mabat 2000’ – an acronym in Hebrew which stands for "technological & surveillance center," and also a word which means “gaze” – is the Israeli police’s most comprehensive visual surveillance project in the Old City, saturating every street and alleyway with Close-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras. Who Profits documented the involvement of the public Israeli conglomerate, C. Mer Group, in the installment, maintenance and implementation of software used for ‘Mabat 2000’. In addition, the involvement of four corporations in the provision of surveillance hardware was documented: VideoTec, a private Italian company; Dahua Technology, a publicly traded Chinese company; Sony Corporation, a publicly traded Japanese conglomerate, and Evron Systems, a private Israeli company.

By 2025, a network of light rail trains will connect all major Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem, fragmenting Palestinian communities and transporting settlers with comfort and ease.

On 18 March 2018, Dexia announced the sale of its 58.9% stake in Dexia Israel Bank, an Israeli bank that gives loans and other financial services to municipalities of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.