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Defence
Weapons manufacturers, military contractors, and defence technology providers
Defence companies provide the most direct support for Israeli military operations, supplying weapons systems used against Palestinian civilians.
- Israeli presence: One of world's most developed defence industries with international partnerships
- Complicity: Contracts include technology transfer, joint production, and maintenance enabling occupation
- Legal exposure: Growing scrutiny under international humanitarian law and arms export regulations
- Leverage: Pension fund divestment, shareholder advocacy, and legal challenges to export licences
- Action: Support arms embargo campaigns and engage pension funds about defence holdings
Showing 15 companies in Defence
Priority Target 3 companies
Serious harm, and highly vulnerable to pressure. Start here.
NSO Group (recently updated)
Israeli developer of Pegasus spyware. Owned since autumn 2025 by a US investor group, but headquartered in Herzliya and licensed for export by Israel's Ministry of Defence.
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Candiru (Saito Tech Ltd) (recently updated)
Israeli spyware vendor registered as Saito Tech Ltd. Microsoft found its DevilsTongue software on the devices of more than 100 people in 2021, approximately half of them in Palestine. Sells only to governments, exports under Israeli Ministry of Defence licence, and was added to the US Entity List in November 2021. An American fund, Integrity Partners, bought its assets in 2025.
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Gilat Satellite Networks (recently updated)
Israeli satellite communications manufacturer headquartered in Petah Tikva, dual-listed on NASDAQ and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Makes ground-segment satcom: modems, transportable terminals, antennas and power amplifiers. Its Gilat Defense division, formed in February 2025, has taken repeat orders from Israel's Ministry of Defence - more than $8 million in July 2025, a further multimillion award in August 2025, and $9 million in February 2026.
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Target 1 companies
Lower severity, but highly vulnerable to pressure. Momentum builders that shift fastest.
Challenging 11 companies
Serious harm, but low vulnerability. The long game, through investors, pension funds and procurement.
Leonardo SpA (recently updated)
Leonardo is Italy's largest arms manufacturer, and the Italian state is its largest shareholder. It makes the 76mm main gun fitted to Israel's Sa'ar warships, and the jet and helicopter trainers on which the Israeli Air Force runs its pilot course. A UN investigator named the company four times in a June 2025 report on the economy of the genocide in Gaza. Leonardo told its own shareholders in 2026 that it kept shipping spare parts for those naval guns after October 2023.
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Elbit Systems (recently updated)
Israel's largest defence contractor. Supplies the Israeli military with drones, aerial munitions, artillery and land systems, and sells the same product lines to European, Asian and North American governments.
Drones
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Israel Weapon Industries (recently updated)
Israeli small arms manufacturer, wholly owned by the privately held SK Group. Makes the Tavor, X95, Negev, Galil, Uzi and Arad carried by Israeli forces, and exports through IWI US in Tennessee and the PLR Systems joint venture in India.
Weapons Systems
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General Dynamics Corporation (recently updated)
American weapons manufacturer, and the maker of Gulfstream business jets. Researchers traced the lot number stamped on MK-84 bomb shrapnel, recovered after a strike on Khan Younis refugee camp in October 2023, to its bomb plant at Garland, Texas. It sold that plant in April 2025, but still runs the US Army factories that make 155mm artillery shell bodies, and supplies the guns on Israel's fighter jets and the engine of its main battle tank.
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BAE Systems (recently updated)
BAE Systems is Britain's largest arms manufacturer, building warships, submarines, artillery and combat aircraft. At Samlesbury in Lancashire it makes the rear fuselage for the global F-35 fleet, and Israel's F-35s are part of that fleet. When Britain suspended around 30 arms export licences to Israel in September 2024 it exempted the F-35 programme, and the Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq spent a year in the British courts trying to close that exemption.
Weapons Systems
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The Boeing Company (recently updated)
Boeing makes the F-15 fighter and the Apache attack helicopter flown by the Israeli Air Force, the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb, and the JDAM tail kits that turn unguided bombs into guided ones. Human Rights Watch recovered remnants of both Boeing munitions from Israeli strikes in Gaza that killed 54 Palestinian civilians in May 2021. Almost every transfer runs through the US government as a Foreign Military Sale, paid for with American military aid, so the decisions belong to US officials and legislators.
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RTX Corporation (recently updated)
The world's largest aerospace and defence company, formerly Raytheon Technologies. Its Pratt & Whitney engines power Israel's F-15, F-16 and F-35 fighters, and its joint venture with the Israeli arms manufacturer Rafael was awarded $1.25 billion in November 2025 to supply Israel with Iron Dome interceptor missiles. Amnesty International recovered a bomb fin made by Raytheon from the rubble in Gaza in 2009. Its customers are governments, airlines and aircraft makers, so the pressure sits with investors and states.
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Israel Aerospace Industries (recently updated)
Wholly state-owned Israeli aerospace and arms manufacturer, one of the three largest Israeli arms companies. Builds Heron and Heron TP drones, Harop loitering munitions, Arrow 3 interceptors, Barak air defence and the Israeli military's Ofek reconnaissance satellites. Runs a helicopter testing facility at Atarot airport in occupied East Jerusalem and a factory in the occupied Syrian Golan. Exports were 65% of first-quarter 2026 sales, and its chairman describes Germany as the company's closest partner in Europe.
Drones
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Lockheed Martin Corporation (recently updated)
Lockheed Martin builds the F-35 stealth fighter, the Hellfire missile, the C-130J transport aircraft and, through its Sikorsky arm, the CH-53K helicopter. Israel was the first country to take the F-35 into combat, and a UN investigator found in June 2025 that Lockheed's F-35s and F-16s were integral to the aerial power Israel used against Gaza. The aircraft is built from parts made in Britain, the Netherlands, Italy and Denmark, so those governments' export decisions reach the programme.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation (recently updated)
American arms manufacturer, the world's third largest by sales. It builds the centre fuselage and radar fitted to every F-35, the fire-control radar and electronic warfare system on the F-16, and the Longbow radar for the Apache helicopter, the three aircraft types the Israeli military has used against Gaza. In December 2023 it sold 30mm cannons directly to the Israeli Ministry of Defence. It sells nothing to consumers, so the pressure sits with investors and governments.
Drones
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Rafael Advanced Defense Systems (recently updated)
Israel's state-owned weapons manufacturer: Iron Dome and Iron Beam air defence, Spike missiles, the Trophy tank protection system and the Orbiter 4 drone. The state intends to sell a minority stake from late 2026.
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