Industrial Goods & Electronics
Manufacturing, electronics, and industrial equipment suppliers with Israeli supply chain connections
Manufacturing and electronics companies maintain complex supply chains often including Israeli components, semiconductors, and precision equipment.
- Israeli presence: Significant manufacturing in precision electronics, semiconductors, and industrial equipment
- Complicity: Opaque supply chains obscure the extent of Israeli component sourcing and production
- Leverage: Manufacturing companies are sensitive to supply chain disruption and reputational risk
- Pressure points: Target visible consumer brands with industrial supply chain exposure
- Action: Research product supply chains and advocate for transparency and ethical sourcing policies
Priority Target 2 companies
Serious harm, and highly vulnerable to pressure. Start here.
Siemens AG (recently updated)
Siemens makes trains, factory automation and building technology. It supplies and maintains 141 double-deck trains for Israel Railways under a contract that can run to 2046, and they run on a line crossing into the occupied West Bank on privately owned Palestinian land. Aluminium parts for those trains came from a factory the UN lists, inside a settlement industrial zone in the occupied West Bank. Siemens design software is licensed in Israel to the defence ministry and to Israel's three largest arms manufacturers.
Volvo Group (recently updated)
Swedish manufacturer of trucks, buses and construction equipment, named by the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory in June 2025 (A/HRC/59/23) among heavy machinery makers whose equipment has been used since at least 2007 to raze Palestinian areas. Volvo Bus Corporation holds 26.5% of Merkavim Transportation Technologies, the Israeli maker of the armoured Mars Defender bus; the other 73.4% is held by Mayer's Cars and Trucks, Volvo's exclusive Israeli importer. Both Israeli companies are listed in the UN OHCHR settlements database; Volvo Group itself is not. Volvo says it has no operations or staff in Israel, sells through an independent dealer, and has limited control over long-lived machines that change owners.
Challenging 2 companies
Serious harm, but low vulnerability. The long game, through investors, pension funds and procurement.
GE Aerospace
US aerospace and defence company (formerly General Electric) manufacturing jet engines powering F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft operated by the Israeli Air Force. GE wind turbines also installed in controversial Golan Heights wind farms on occupied Syrian territory.
Caterpillar Inc. (recently updated)
World's largest manufacturer of construction equipment and maker of the D9, which the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory recorded on 30 June 2025 that Israel has evolved into 'automated, remote-commanded core weaponry of the military' (A/HRC/59/23). Caterpillar builds the D9 as civilian machinery and sells the units that reach Israel to United States government authorities, which transfer them under the Foreign Military Sales programme; the company told Norway's Council on Ethics that it has no direct commercial relationship with the Israeli military and that oversight of end use after delivery is difficult. Excluded from Norway's Government Pension Fund Global on 25 August 2025.