arms exports

Attendees inspect Israeli-made firearms at the Defense Tech Expo in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

Arms sales to Israel are slowing. But that’s only half the story

By continuing to purchase weapons from Israel, foreign states are sustaining the infrastructure, expertise, and financing it needs to wage its next war.

By Sahar Vardi August 19, 2026

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PODCAST: How Israel sells militarism at home and abroad

Sahar Vardi discusses the human and political costs of Israel's flourishing arms industry, and the deep societal shifts demilitarization would require.

By +972 Magazine March 27, 2026

Attendees at the Defense Tech Expo in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

Israel’s arms sales are surging. So why are its weapons expos smaller than ever?

Bypassing public exhibits, Israeli weapons firms are using subsidiaries to sell to European states — even those pledging an arms embargo due to the genocide.

By Sahar Vardi February 23, 2026

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz holds a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 7, 2025. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Germany never stopped arming Israel’s genocide

A new bilateral cybersecurity deal and the continued flow of weapons leave little ambiguity about Germany's stance: not accountability, but normalization.

By Hanno Hauenstein January 20, 2026

A speaker at the DefenseTech Summit at Tel Aviv University, December 10, 2024 (DefenseTech Summit)

With Gaza war and Trump’s return, Silicon Valley embraces a military renaissance

At Israel’s first DefenseTech Summit, corporate leaders and army officials openly touted their partnership in AI-driven warfare and surveillance.

By Sophia Goodfriend December 31, 2024

Palestinians inspect the remains of a house that was the target of a drone strike by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, September 4, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israel’s armed drones are heralding an era of automated killing

The army's use of UAVs has led to soaring exports and a mounting Palestinian death toll, yet there is no public debate over their legality or morality.

By Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown) September 19, 2023

The signature agreements between Morocco’s National Office for Electricity and Drinking Water and Israel's national water company, Mekorot, at La Mamounia Hotel in Marrakech, November 17, 2022. (Marc Israel Sellem/Jerusalem Post)

With Morocco normalization, Israel revives a dangerous Africa policy

Unable to reconcile its public diplomacy with colonialism at home, Israel has returned to courting key African partners through military-intelligence ties.

By Alex White August 17, 2023

The ISDEF22 arms exhibition in Tel Aviv, March 22, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

The start-up spy state

Israel's surveillance sector is marketing its repressive technology as offering innovative solutions to global problems — a tactic on display at its latest expo.

By Sophia Goodfriend April 6, 2022

A soldier of the Azov Battalion mans a heavy machine gun on a patrol near Mariupol, Ukraine. (Carl Ridderstråle/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Is Israel trying to hide arms exports to neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine?

Human rights activists are hoping to use the courts to expose Israeli arms exports and security know-how to neo-Nazi militias fighting in Ukraine. By Shuki Taussig Is Israel knowingly selling weapons to neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine? A group of Israeli human rights activists filed a petition to the Tel Aviv District Court last June to demand the government…

By The Seventh Eye June 19, 2019

Commander in Chief of the Myanmar military, Min Aung Hlaing, meets with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot during a trip to Israel, September 9, 2015. (SF Min Aung Hlaing’s Facebook)

Why do the U.S. and EU still let Israel sell arms to Burma?

Economic sanctions were lifted but an arms embargo remains. What good is an arms embargo if Washington and Brussels allow their ally Israel, along with world powers like China, to keep selling arms to Burma? By Eitay Mack In light of the atrocities being perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma, many in the…

By +972 Magazine October 19, 2017

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, November 30, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Hyper-nationalism and arms deals: A new chapter in Israel-India ties

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first official visit to Israel comes at a time of both rising economic cooperation growing nationalism in both countries. By Inbal Ben Yehuda Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived for a three-day visit in Israel on Tuesday. Alongside meetings with government officials, Modi will travel across the country and will…

By +972 Magazine July 4, 2017

Women from the Association of the Families of the Disappeared demonstrate in front of the palace of the government during the military rule of Pinochet. By Museum of Memory and Human Rights. CC BY-SA 3.0.

‘Investigate Israeli complicity with Pinochet’s crimes’

Family members of a Chilean man disappeared and murdered by the Latin American dictator want Israel to open a criminal investigation into officials who cooperated with the murderous regime. By John Brown* (translated by Tal Haran) Two Israeli women who immigrated from Chile are taking Israel’s attorney general to court, demanding that he open a…

By +972 Magazine March 2, 2017

A mass grave in Bosnia. (ICTY)

Supreme Court rules against exposing Israel’s role in Bosnian genocide

Citing potential damage to Israel’s foreign relations, the Supreme Court rejects a petition calling to reveal details of the government’s arms exports to the Serbian army during the Bosnian genocide. By John Brown* (Translated by Tal Haran) Israel’s Supreme Court last month rejected a petition to reveal details of Israeli defense exports to the former…

By +972 Magazine December 5, 2016