Israeli 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

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

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

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to media in front of a killer drone during a security tour of the Palmachim Airbase, October 27, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

How AI is intensifying Israel’s bombardments of Gaza

With algorithms making warfare easier to sustain, automated weapons have turned Israeli assaults on besieged Palestinians into an annual event.

By Sophia Goodfriend June 6, 2023

The leaders of the 1967 Greek coup d'état: Brigadier Stylianos Pattakos, Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos and Colonel Nikolaos Makarezos. (Unknown/CC BY-SA 4.0)

The suppressed history of Israel’s support for the brutal Greek junta

Declassified files reveal the extent of Israel’s ties with the regime known for torturing and murdering thousands of its citizens in the 1960s-70s.

By Eitay Mack April 28, 2023

An explosion follows an Israeli airstrike on a building in Khan Younis, August 6, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90).

The Israeli arms companies that will profit from the latest assault on Gaza

Weapons and surveillance manufacturers have an interest in maintaining Gaza as a playground for any technology Israel wishes to test on Palestinians.

By Keren Assaf August 16, 2022

An Israeli military watchtower and cameras over Road 60, occupied West Bank, Jan. 30, 2006. (Activestills)

The watchful eye of Israel’s surveillance empire

Israeli cyber companies are at the forefront of a booming facial recognition market, threatening basic freedoms in Israel-Palestine and beyond.

By Jonathan Hempel May 3, 2022

Activists from Palestine Action hold up a banner on top of Elbit Systems factory in Oldham, northern England, August, 2021. (Palestine Action)

The UK welcomed an Israeli arms factory into our town. We shut it down

By forcing Elbit Systems to close one of its factories, we showed what direct action can achieve when governments remain indifferent to Israeli apartheid.

By Huda Ammori January 23, 2022

Myanmar's military marches in a parade in the city of Naypyidaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021. (Mil.ru/CC BY 4.0)

Myanmar’s genocidal military is still a friend to Israel

Public pressure has forced Israel to halt arms sales to the brutal military junta, but the state’s political support remains strong.

By Eitay Mack April 23, 2021

Members of the Armenian community of Jerusalem hold signs and Armenian flags as they protest in front of the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry against Israel's weapon sales to Azerbaijan, April 14, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

As tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh rise, Israel must halt arms sales to Azerbaijan

With fighting over the region renewed between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Israel should at the very least avoid contributing to the escalation.

By Eitay Mack October 9, 2020

A man wears a face mask for protection from coronavirus as he takes the train to Haifa, on March 17, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

For Israeli press, surveillance is only a problem when targeting Jewish citizens

Journalists were quick to condemn monitoring of COVID-19 patients in Israel but remain silent when that same technology is sold to repressive regimes.

By Eitay Mack and The Seventh Eye June 19, 2020

The Philippine Coast Guard presenting a shipment of 70 Israeli-made machine guns at the PCG National Headquarters Port Area on May 7, 2018. (Philippines Coast Guard)

Judge fines petitioners for challenging Israel’s arms sales to Philippines

A judge imposes a fine on petitioners who brought suit against the government in an attempt to end its arms exports to the Philippines, sending a clear message to those protesting Israel’s complicity with some of the world’s most repressive regimes. Judge Gilia Ravid of the Tel Aviv District Court issued a ruling Thursday on the petition filed by human…

By Orly Noy October 17, 2019

Former Philippine National Police Chief and current Senate of the Philippines Ronald dela Rosa seen holding an Israeli-made rifle. (Courtesy of Philippine National Police)

Philippine police are executing people with Israeli weapons

Israel continues to export arms and military training to Rodrigo Duterte’s regime, even after the ICC launched a preliminary investigation to look into suspicions of crimes against humanity there. By Eitay Mack For much of the past two years, Israel has been exporting weapons and military training to the Philippine security forces. As part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug…

By +972 Magazine August 19, 2019