Affinity Partners
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Affinity Partners is an American investment firm, based in Miami, Florida. It was formed in 2021 by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, who also served as a senior advisor during Trump's first presidency. The firm has a focus on investing in American and Israeli companies. Its sources of funding are overwhelmingly from the Saudi Arabian government.[1]
Follow the money
Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar have invested in an Israeli company linked to Israel’s military as part of their involvement with the investment fund of Jared Kushner, underscoring the tangled political and economic interests between Kushner, Israel and Gulf monarchies. The link comes from a $150m stake Kushner's Miami-based Affinity Partners purchased in the auto services unit of Israel's Shlomo Group, a part owner of Israel Shipyards, the only domestic shipbuilder for the Israeli navy which constructs Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boats.
Illegal settlements
Jared Kushner, husband of Ivanka Trump, has just doubled his stake to 10 percent ownership in a financial firm, Phoenix Financial Ltd, a major Israeli finance and insurance firm, founded shortly after Israel’s establishment, making him the company’s largest shareholder that stands to gain from turbocharging illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory and just before the announcement of a cease-fire deal that Kushner may have helped advise on.[2]
Israeli startups
Jared Kushner’s new private-equity fund plans to invest millions of dollars of Saudi Arabia’s money in Israeli startups, according to people familiar with the investment plan, in a sign of warming ties between two historic rivals.
Affinity Partners, which has raised more than $3 billion, including a $2 billion commitment from the kingdom’s sovereign-wealth fund, has already selected the first two Israeli firms to invest in, these people said. An Affinity Partners financial disclosure showed that 99 percent of the funds given to the firm were from foreign investors.[3]
