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ASML MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-23
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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

No public evidence identified, following bounded searches of ASML and ASML Israel alongside Hebrew and English IMOD, IDF, procurement, tender, export-control, and defence-prime terms, of a contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum of understanding, direct procurement relationship, physical-equipment supply, or maintenance supply between ASML/ASML Israel (2001) Ltd. and the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD), Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel Prison Service, Israel Police, Border Police, another Israeli security body, or an Israeli defence prime.1, 2, 3, 4, 5

ASML’s 2025 Form 20-F discloses that a limited portion of its suppliers, customers, and support teams are based in Israel, but does not identify those parties or describe them as defence, security, military-industrial, or other security beneficiaries.1

ASML Israel (2001) Ltd. is disclosed as an Israeli consolidated subsidiary; the subsidiary exhibit states that listed subsidiaries are directly or indirectly wholly owned except the separately identified eLith LLC.2

ASML’s published locations identify Israeli offices at Mevo Sivan Street 1, Kiryat Gat, and Ramat Gabriel Industry Area 5, Migdal Ha’emek.6

A 2013 Israeli government merger filing described ASML as active in Israel through ASML Israel (2001) Ltd.; current corporate disclosures confirm continuing disclosed Israeli group presence, but do not identify an Israeli defence or security beneficiary.2, 6, 3, 7

The IMOD’s public description identifies its Defense Procurement Administration as responsible for defence procurement, imported-goods shipment, customs and port processes, and arms-import permits; the reviewed page does not name ASML, which is a page-specific finding rather than a complete procurement-record clearance.5

SIBAT’s Israel at Eurosatory 2024 catalogue lists Israeli exhibitors including Elbit, IAI, and Rafael, but does not list ASML; this finding is limited to that June 2024 exhibition catalogue and is not a comprehensive supplier or procurement register.8

The bounded searches retrieved ASML, SEC, Israeli competition, IMOD, and SIBAT materials but no primary IMOD, IDF, SIBAT, Israeli procurement, export-licence, or defence-prime record naming ASML in an attributable transaction.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

ASML describes its business as hardware, software, and services enabling chipmakers to manufacture microchips, with reported 2025 system sales comprising EUV and DUV lithography systems and metrology and inspection systems.1, 9

The available materials describe semiconductor-manufacturing equipment rather than a disclosed tactical, ruggedised, military-specification, targeting, fire-control, weapons-effect, or weapons-specific product line.1, 9

ASML states that its business is subject to export controls and that certain advanced DUV immersion lithography systems require Dutch licences when exported outside the European Union.1

ASML’s public disclosures do not identify an Israel-specific export-licence application, Israeli security end-user certificate, licence grant, refusal, suspension, revocation, or military end use for its equipment.1

Globes reported in 2024 that ASML equipment had been ordered for Intel’s planned Kiryat Gat expansion.10 Intel describes Kiryat Gat as a manufacturing facility within its commercial integrated-device-manufacturing operations, and stated in February 2024 that its expansion was intended to produce advanced chips using EUV lithography.11, 12

The reported Intel-related equipment order does not establish a sale to an Israeli military or security end user, downstream military use of chips produced at that facility, or a defence-prime supply-chain relationship.10, 11, 12

Israel’s Patent Office reported ASML Netherlands B.V. among leading foreign patent applicants in 2020, with 69 applications; this records intellectual-property activity rather than military procurement, co-development, or a defence end user.13

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

ASML publicly lists offices at Mevo Sivan Street 1 in Kiryat Gat and in the Ramat Gabriel Industry Area in Migdal Ha’emek.6

ASML’s 2025 public country-by-country report lists ASML Israel (2001) Ltd. and Cymer B.V. – Netherlands PE under Israeli tax jurisdiction; it does not identify the permanent establishment’s location, staff, activity, customers, end users, or operational relationship to ASML Israel.7

The reviewed company disclosures do not identify an ASML office, facility, legal entity, dealer, distributor, franchisee, or licensee in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, or an Israeli settlement.1, 2, 6, 7

No public evidence identified of ASML equipment being used in settlement construction, demolitions, the separation barrier, checkpoints, detention facilities, Israeli military installations, or settlement infrastructure.1, 2, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16

No public evidence identified of ASML construction, maintenance, engineering, or facilities contracts for military bases, checkpoints, the barrier, detention sites, or settlement infrastructure.1, 2, 6, 4, 5

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of a verified ASML component-supply, technology-transfer, licensed-manufacturing, co-production, or joint-development relationship with Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Rafael, IMI, Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence prime.1, 2, 4, 17

ASML’s Form 20-F states that a limited portion of its suppliers, customers, and support teams are based in Israel, but does not name those parties or specify their end uses.1 The disclosure of unidentified Israeli suppliers, customers, and support teams is not evidence that an identified Israeli defence prime is an ASML customer or supplier.1

The 24 December 2024 IMOD Arrow-3 announcement identifies IAI as prime contractor and names Stark Aerospace, IAI’s ELTA and TAMAM divisions, Elbit, Tomer, and Rafael as production participants; it does not identify ASML.17 This disconfirms an ASML role only in that described Arrow-3 production arrangement, not in all potential defence-prime supply chains.17

The 16 January 2025 IMOD Iron Dome announcement identifies Rafael as primary contractor, with ELTA, mPrest Defense, and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency as specified production or co-development participants; it does not identify ASML.18 This is likewise programme-specific rather than a comprehensive supplier list.18

The U.S. International Trade Administration’s current Israel aerospace-and-defence guide identifies IAI, Rafael, and Elbit as leading sector participants, but does not name ASML; the source does not exclude undisclosed commercial relationships.19

ASML’s subsidiary filing identifies ASML Israel (2001) Ltd. as part of the consolidated group, but does not publicly identify its customers, contracts, product scope, distribution arrangements, employee count, directors, or end users.2

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

ASML’s public customer-support material states that its engineers in Israel install, maintain, and continuously improve lithography machines at customer sites.20

The support description does not name customers, installation locations, equipment configurations, serial numbers, security beneficiaries, or the performance status of particular installations; it therefore does not establish service at an IDF, IMOD, police, prison, Border Police, settlement, or other security installation.20

No public evidence identified of ASML contracts for base services, transport, catering, fuel, waste, telecommunications, freight forwarding, port handling, or military cargo in Israel or the occupied territories.1, 20, 4, 5

ASML’s disclosed Israeli locations are corporate offices, and the reviewed location material does not identify either as a military, security-force, settlement, or occupied-territory operation.6

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified that ASML is a prime contractor, licensed manufacturer, or verified direct supplier of lethal platforms, munitions, missile-defence systems, fighter aircraft, tanks, naval systems, guidance systems, fire-control systems, radar, propulsion, warheads, weapons-specific software, or related weapons-specific subsystems to Israeli defence end users.1, 9, 17, 18

ASML’s available corporate materials describe semiconductor-manufacturing systems and services rather than products designed for a weapons effect or targeting decision.1, 9

The evidence supporting commercial semiconductor-equipment operations in Israel, including the reported Intel Kiryat Gat equipment order, does not establish downstream military use of chips produced at that facility or an ASML role in a specific Israeli weapons system or strategic platform.10, 11, 12

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

ASML discloses a general export-control compliance framework and Dutch licensing requirements for specified semiconductor-manufacturing equipment.1

The Form 20-F does not disclose an Israel-specific export-licence decision or an Israel-related enforcement action, sanctions matter, arms-embargo issue, judicial review, or legal proceeding relating to supply to an Israeli security or military end user.1

No public evidence identified of a government decision granting, denying, suspending, or revoking an ASML export licence for supply to an Israeli military or security beneficiary.1, 4, 5

ASML Holding N.V. is a Netherlands-incorporated holding company headquartered in Veldhoven, and its Form 20-F explains that “ASML” may refer to the holding company and/or its consolidated subsidiaries depending on context.1

ASML reports that its protective-preference-share foundation operates independently; its current shares page identifies the foundation’s directors as Wim Pelsma, Sjoerd Vollebregt, Jos Streppel, and Arnold Croiset van Uchelen.21

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

The supplied document-scoped full-text pre-scan found no ASML mention in the UN Special Rapporteur report A/HRC/59/23, the 2023 OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in settlement activity, or the 2025 OHCHR update.14, 15, 22

The reported pre-scan result is document-scoped and does not establish database-wide absence or rule out material outside the reviewed reports.14, 15, 22

No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of an organised boycott, divestment, exclusion, litigation, OECD National Contact Point complaint, sanctions matter, export-control enforcement action, or company response specifically grounded in ASML defence-sector activities in Israel.1, 14, 15, 22

ASML’s Board of Management comprises Christophe Fouquet, Roger Dassen, Frédéric Schneider-Maunoury, Wayne Allan, Jim Koonmen, and Marco Pieters; the 2026 AGM materials recorded Pieters’ intended Board appointment as CTO from the April 2026 AGM and the reappointments of Dassen and Schneider-Maunoury.23, 24

ASML identifies Nils Andersen, Terri Kelly, An Steegen, Jack de Kreij, Birgit Conix, Warren East, Karien van Gennip, Mark Durcan, and Benjamin Loh as Supervisory Board members, and describes all current members as independent under the Dutch Corporate Governance Code.25

No public evidence identified, in the official biographies reviewed and bounded searches of named senior personnel, of a disclosed Israeli defence-prime directorship, IDF or IMOD role, or settlement-organisation role for ASML Board of Management or Supervisory Board members; this is a bounded-source result rather than comprehensive personal-background clearance.23, 25

ASML reports that BlackRock, Inc. held 6.83% and Capital Research and Management Company held 5.09% as of 18 February 2026, while aggregate holdings of current Board of Management and Supervisory Board members were 0.01%; no disclosed shareholder reaches the review’s 10% controlling-principal threshold.21

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/937966/000162828026011378/asml-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21

  2. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/937966/000162828026011378/exhibit81.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  3. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/legalinfo/9131/he/mergers_file_13022013.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. https://mod.gov.il/%D7%90%D7%92%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%94%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%A9-%D7%94%D7%91%D7%99%D7%98%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  5. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Exhibitions/DEFEA/Documents/ISRAEL%20at%20DEFEA%202025%20updated.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  6. https://www.asml.com/company/about-asml/locations ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  7. https://ourbrand.asml.com/m/44bf04d7ecacdbb6/original/asml-2025-public-country-by-country-report.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  8. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Exhibitions/Eurosatory/Documents/ISRAEL_at_EUROSATORY_2024.pdf ↩ ↩2

  9. https://www.asml.com/investors/annual-report/2025 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-intel-confirms-further-15b-investment-in-kiryat-gat-1001466126 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. https://www.intel.co.il/content/www/il/he/company-overview/intel-in-israel.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/updates-intel-10-largest-construction-projects.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  13. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/new-annual-reports/en/annual-reports_eng_main-annual-report-2020-eng.pdf ↩

  14. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/53/71 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  16. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19 ↩

  17. https://www.mod.gov.il/en/press-releases/press-room/israel-mod-and-iai-sign-major-deal-to-expand-procurement-of-arrow-3-interceptors ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  18. https://mod.gov.il/en/press-releases/press-room/israel-mod-signs-first-defense-procurement-contract-from-us-aid-package-with-rafael-to-expand-the-serial-production-of-iron-dome-interceptors ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/israel-aerospace-and-defense ↩

  20. https://www.asml.com/en/careers/teams/customer-support/customer-support-heroes-xuanmin ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  21. https://www.asml.com/en/investors/shares ↩ ↩2

  22. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  23. https://www.asml.com/en/company/governance/board-of-management ↩ ↩2

  24. https://ourbrand.asml.com/m/305bce8b2692a7a0/original/Agenda_incl_explanatory_notes_AGM-2026_ASML_FINAL.pdf ↩

  25. https://www.asml.com/en/company/governance/supervisory-board ↩ ↩2