Canary Mission operates like a digital blacklist. It has more than 5,000 dossiers of pro-Palestine students and activists, complete with photos, workplaces, and social media histories, all meant to hinder their future job prospects.

The site is run anonymously, but tax records from American foundations have linked it to an Israeli non-profit called Megamont Shalom. Until now, only its director, Jonathan Bash, had been publicly identified. Ricochet Media has now uncovered three additional members of Megamont Shalom, offering the clearest picture yet of the people behind the operation.

Most of the people listed on Canary Mission’s Canada section are women and people of colour.

Megamot Shalom, registered in 2016, is a non-profit in Israel with 11 employees. According to the organization’s publicly accessible tax documents, almost all of its budget, about a million American dollars annually, comes from donations abroad. Its mission is “Preserving and ensuring the national strength and image of the State of Israel.”

In 2018, The Forward and Haaretz identified Megamot Shalom’s director as Jonathan Jack Ian Bash, a British software engineer living in Jerusalem. In addition to overseeing the Israeli nonprofit, Bash is also listed as director of Body Clock Health Care Limited, a U.K. firm selling back pain treatment machines. Bash did not respond to Ricochet’s request for comment.

Megamot Shalom has four executive members. Lior Probak is the non-profit’s attorney and legal advisor. He’s a tax advisor and CPA who works at the law offices of Tel Aviv-based Dror Yitzhak & Co. Probak’s biography on the firm’s website notes him as a staff sergeant in the IDF. 

An email with Probak’s first name is listed under the contact for a recently defunct Israeli company, Video Fighters Ltd. Registered in the same year as Megamont Shalom, Video Fighters Ltd. aimed to promote “the image of the State of Israel in various media through the creation and production of videos, encouraging immigration to the Land of Israel, and strengthening Jewish identity.” Ricochet reached out to Probak and Dror Yitzhak & Co. for comment, and asked if the videos on Canary Mission’s website were produced by Video Fighters Ltd. We did not receive a response from either. 

Probak is also the attorney and legal advisor of The Israeli Health Tech Company Ltd. By searching for its current directors, Ricochet found that it runs under the name Israeli Society for HealthTech.

Both Video Fighters Ltd. and The Israeli Health Tech Company Ltd. list the same address on their tax records and are located an eight-minute drive from Megamont Shalom in Bait Shemesh, a city about 30 kilometres west of Jerusalem. 

Eli Gof-Gefen is Megamont Shalom’s accountant. He also goes under the name Eli Vine and appears to be affiliated with Gefen Sandmann Accountants in Beit Shemesh. One of the firm’s clients is the Ronen Hanania Soldiers Association, a non-profit dedicated to the welfare of IDF soldiers, including financial support, housing and food. Gof-Gefen is also listed as the accountant for Video Fighters Ltd. and The Israeli Health Tech Company Ltd. Both companies share the same address as Gefen Sandmann Accountants in Beit Shemesh. Gof-Gefen did not reply to our request for comment.

Hagai Amaton sits on Megamont Shalom’s Audit Committee. He’s a director at a Jerusalem-based accounting firm A. Yehudayoff & Co., where he specializes in auditing NGOs. Amaton is also a member of the Audit Committee of The Israeli Health Tech Company Ltd. and a defunct company called Re-Electing Ltd. Re-Electing Ltd. was registered in 2024 and provided practical and financial support to individuals leaving or questioning their religion. The company reported zero income and expenses in its first and only tax form this year.

A “Hagai Amaton” commented this on an article by a Palestinian journalist writing about the shooting of two close family friends: “Arab culture is murderous — that’s what Gaza and the murders among Israel’s Arab citizens have in common. Instead of complaining, start learning to quit.”

Ricochet has not been able to verify if it’s the same Hagai Amaton. Amaton, nor his workplace, responded to our request for comment. 

Ricochet was unable to identify the fourth board member of Megamont Shalom. 

Megamont Shalom is based in Beit Shemesh. When Ricochet searched the address on Google Maps, we saw a free-standing sand-yellow stone building with three floors. The top floor has a window with white metal bars along the side. Below it, an orange-and-white sign in Hebrew reads: For sale / for rent, office units, 20 to 100 square meters. Above the entrance, a larger white sign reads, “Municipality of Beit Shemesh.” It has two Israeli flags jutting out. The glass front door is propped open.

In 2018, The Forward sent a reporter there and got a photo. They found a padlocked metal door, two old chairs, and pigeon droppings. That image does not match Ricochet’s results, but the same sand-yellow stone and white metal bars are there. 

Known funders

*Michael Leven from the Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundation told the New York Times earlier this year that he has resumed funding to Canary Mission. He did not identify how much.

Funds that fuel settler violence in Israel

Ricochet Media’s investigative podcast There is a List has been uncovering how pro-Israel organizations in Canada surveil and silence pro-Palestine voices. The series exposes networks of online dossiers, media pressure campaigns, and charities that use tax-subsidized dollars to advance political agendas.

In its latest episode, The Charity Loophole, we trace the flow of Canadian charitable donations to Israel and how those funds may be supporting the occupation.

Miles Howe, an assistant professor of Critical Criminology at Brock University, studies how Canadian charitable dollars go to Israel through what he calls “Zionist philanthropy,” the movement of money that upholds Israel’s existence as a Jewish ethno-state.

“For every dollar that you can trace going to illegal settlements or the Israeli offensive forces, there are multiple dollars you have no idea where they’re even going,” Howe said.

With that in mind, he said, no charitable dollar sent to Israel right now can be considered neutral.

Listen to the latest episode of This is a List, a 5-part series about the surveillance and silencing of pro-Palestine voices in Canada. The show delves into the stories of Canadian students, academics, activists, journalists and healthcare workers targeted by the likes of Canary Mission. 

Tune in every Tuesday for a new episode. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.