{"id":534648,"date":"2026-07-10T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/534648\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:39:08","slug":"qatari-investors-block-volkswagens-planned-defence-deal-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/534648\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatari investors block Volkswagen&#8217;s planned defence deal with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Volkswagen\u2019s plans for a defence partnership with Israel\u2019s Rafael have been vetoed by the German automaker\u2019s Qatari investors, media reported.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Qatar\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, Volkswagen\u2019s third-largest shareholder, rejected the management\u2019s proposal to manufacture missile components and military vehicles at the company\u2019s Osnabruck plant, the Bild newspaper reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The move comes after Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume said in March that the company will stop manufacturing Volkswagen Group vehicles at Osnabruck starting in 2027 and confirmed talks with several defence firms about shifting the plant for military vehicles production. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Blume provided no further details at the time.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The proposal has sparked significant controversy in Germany. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volkswagen\u2019s plans for a defence partnership with Israel\u2019s Rafael have been vetoed by the German automaker\u2019s Qatari investors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-534648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}