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Boeing

Defense & Aerospace 42 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-09-22 METHOD V6.5
BDS-1000 Score 842 /1000 A Tier A - Extreme
Military ↗ 9.50 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 4.32 Political ↗ 4.79
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Key Findings

  • Military: Boeing is named as prime or principal contractor in notified or announced Israeli F-15 and munitions procurements; the 2024 U.S. notification was a possible sale, while Israel announced a signed 25-aircraft F-15 agreement in November 2024.1, 2
  • Military: Amnesty International identified recovered Gaza-strike fragments as Boeing-associated JDAM components and reported identification of a Boeing-made GBU-39 bomb; Amnesty’s characterisations of attacks as unlawful are not judicial findings against Boeing.3, 4
  • Economic: Boeing reports reciprocal-procurement and supplier-development arrangements with Israeli industry, including a stated nearly US$1 billion aerospace-industry effect over three years.5
  • Not found: No public evidence identified of Boeing facilities or operations in settlements or other occupied territories, Israeli-government cloud services, or Israeli military IT, intelligence, biometric, or surveillance contracts.6, 7

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameThe Boeing Company
JurisdictionDelaware, United States.8
HeadquartersPrincipal executive offices in Arlington, Virginia, United States.8
SectorAerospace and defence; operating segments include Commercial Airplanes, Defense, Space & Security, and Global Services.9
OwnershipPublic company. As reported in Boeing’s 2026 proxy, Vanguard (9.0%), FMR LLC (7.0%), and BlackRock (6.8%) were disclosed beneficial owners; no shareholder in that table held 10% or more.10
Key Executives / GovernanceRobert Kelly Ortberg, President and CEO; Steven M. Mollenkopf, independent Board Chair; Jesus Malave Jr., CFO; Stephanie F. Pope, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President/CEO; Brett C. Gerry, Chief Legal Officer; Jeffrey S. Shockey, Government Operations, Global Public Policy and Corporate Strategy.10, 11
Israeli-Nexus SummaryDocumented nexus centres on Israeli military aircraft and weapons procurement, missile-defence industrial cooperation, reciprocal procurement with Israeli suppliers, and a Tel Aviv commercial presence; no public evidence identified of settlement operations or Israeli state digital-service contracts.1, 5, 6, 7

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Boeing’s documented Israel/Palestine nexus is principally military-industrial. The company is identified in U.S. and Israeli government records concerning F-15 aircraft, F-15I upgrades, Small Diameter Bombs, JDAM guidance kits, and associated prospective or proposed support. The August 2024 DSCA notification described a possible Foreign Military Sale of up to 50 F-15IA aircraft and upgrade kits for 25 F-15Is, naming Boeing as prime contractor; it did not itself establish final contract execution or completed delivery. Israel’s Ministry of Defense subsequently announced a signed US$5.2 billion agreement for 25 F-15IA aircraft, with an option for 25 more and deliveries projected from 2031.1, 2

Boeing also documents longstanding industrial ties with Israeli aerospace firms and government procurement channels. It states that a 2018 umbrella agreement with Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry directs at least 35% of the value of Israeli-government defence procurements toward Israel-based companies and suppliers. Boeing reported nearly US$1 billion in aerospace-industry strengthening over three years and cited broader reciprocal-procurement benefits, although the reviewed materials do not identify all recipients, sites, values, or the current status of individual commitments.5, 15 Boeing and Israel Aerospace Industries are described as jointly producing Arrow II and developing Arrow III, with final Israeli assembly and integration attributed to IAI.16

Civil-society reporting supplies evidence concerning particular munitions used in Gaza, but requires careful attribution. Amnesty International reported forensic identification of JDAM-related components associated with Boeing after two October 2023 Gaza strikes, and separately reported that its weapons experts identified a Boeing-made GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb in photographs of fragments after the 9 January 2024 Tal al-Sultan, Rafah strike. Amnesty assessed the reported attacks as unlawful or likely unlawful and called for investigations; these are Amnesty assessments, not judicial determinations of Boeing liability.3, 4

The record does not support several broader claims. No public evidence identified of Boeing construction or logistics operations in occupied territory; facilities, dealers, distributors, or service sites in settlements; participation in Project Nimbus; cloud, data-residency, surveillance, biometric, intelligence, or administrative-IT contracts for Israeli state or security bodies; or Israel/Palestine-specific anti-BDS policies, political donations, or military-welfare funding.6, 7, 17 On the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 assessment, these documented military, economic, and political vectors yield a BRS of 842, Tier A (Extreme Complicity).

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
1969Boeing states that it opened an office in Israel.18
2002Boeing states that its cooperation with Israel Aerospace Industries on Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 dates to 2002.18
14 May 2018Boeing and Israeli company Assembrix announced a memorandum of agreement concerning secure additive-manufacturing design-data distribution; the announcement does not establish enterprise-wide deployment or continued activity.19
2018Boeing states that it entered an umbrella agreement with Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry concerning reciprocal procurement for Israeli-government defence procurements.5
2021Boeing states that the Israeli Air Force selected the KC-46 tanker.18
22 July 2022Boeing Israel and the Israel National Cyber Directorate announced a civil-aviation cybersecurity cooperation agreement. The announcement did not disclose products, system access, data flows, implementation, consideration, or duration.20
October 2023Amnesty reported forensic identification of JDAM components associated with Boeing following two Gaza strikes; Amnesty called for investigations and its conclusions are not judicial findings against Boeing.3
9 January 2024Amnesty reported identifying a Boeing-made GBU-39 bomb from photographed fragments after the Tal al-Sultan, Rafah strike; it described the attack as likely unlawful.4
13 August 2024DSCA notified Congress of a possible US$18.82 billion FMS case for up to 50 F-15IA aircraft and modifications to 25 F-15Is, naming Boeing as prime contractor.1
7 November 2024Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced a US$5.2 billion agreement for 25 Boeing F-15IA aircraft, with an option for 25 additional aircraft and projected deliveries beginning in 2031.2
7 February 2025DSCA notified Congress of a possible US$6.75 billion Israeli munitions package including GBU-39/B bombs and JDAM configurations, identifying Boeing as a principal contractor.21
March 2026Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced approval to advance acquisition of a second F-15IA squadron from Boeing. This records an approval stage, not a completed contract.22
May 2026Boeing announced delivery of the first KC-46 tanker to the Israeli Air Force and identified Ido Nehushtan as Boeing Israel country president.23

Corporate Overview

The Boeing Company is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Its reporting group includes the company and its subsidiaries, and its operating segments include Commercial Airplanes, Defense, Space & Security, and Global Services.8, 9 Its significant-subsidiary exhibit lists, among others, Boeing Distribution Services, Boeing Global Holdings Corporation, Insitu, Boeing Defence UK, Boeing Defence Australia, Boeing Europe, and Spirit AeroSystems entities; because the exhibit excludes entities that are not significant individually or in the aggregate, it cannot establish the absence of a smaller Israeli registration.14

Boeing identifies a Tel Aviv office as “Boeing International Corporation, Israel” and describes its Tel Aviv presence as serving customers and suppliers. It also lists Rishon LeZion as a Boeing Distribution Services location. Neither cited source establishes the legal ownership, legal form, workforce, data-processing function, or precise operational role of those locations.12, 13

The documented relationship is not one of Israeli ownership or control: no public evidence identified of an Israeli parent company, Israeli state-held golden share, controlling shareholder, Israeli tax residency, or an Israeli shareholder holding 10% or more of Boeing common stock.8, 10 Boeing describes commercial and military customer and supplier relationships, reciprocal procurement, and cooperation with Israeli aerospace industry, including IAI missile-defence work.5, 16

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

Boeing’s strongest documented vector is direct defence procurement. DSCA’s August 2024 notice named Boeing Corporation, St. Louis, as prime contractor for a possible Israeli FMS package covering up to 50 F-15IA aircraft and modification kits for 25 existing F-15I aircraft, with proposed engineering, technical, logistics, training, maintenance, transportation, and airlift support. The notification estimated the package at US$18.82 billion and projected deliveries beginning in 2029.1

Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced in November 2024 that it had signed a US$5.2 billion agreement for 25 F-15 aircraft, with an option for 25 more, after negotiations involving the Ministry’s U.S. mission, Boeing, and the Israeli Air Force.2 In February 2025, DSCA also notified Congress of a possible US$6.75 billion Israeli munitions package that identified Boeing as a principal contractor and included GBU-39/B SDB-I weapons and JDAM guidance-kit configurations.21

Boeing publicly markets JDAM and Small Diameter Bomb systems as precision-guided munitions. Amnesty reported evidence associating Boeing JDAM components and a Boeing-made GBU-39 bomb with reported Gaza strikes, while expressly locating legal assessments in Amnesty’s reporting rather than in a judicial finding against Boeing.3, 4, 24 Boeing additionally states that it delivered the first KC-46 tanker to the Israeli Air Force in May 2026.23

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The August 2024 and February 2025 DSCA records are congressional notifications for possible FMS sales. They document a U.S. approval and notification process, not necessarily final contract execution, delivery, Boeing’s delivery decision, or actual end use for every notified item.1, 21 The later November 2024 Israeli announcement establishes a 25-aircraft agreement, distinct from the up-to-50-aircraft U.S. notification.2

Amnesty’s findings concern weapons-fragment identification and Amnesty’s legal assessments of reported strikes; they are not a court judgment, regulatory finding, or adjudicated finding of corporate liability against Boeing.3, 4 No public evidence identified of Boeing base catering, fuel, waste, port handling, freight forwarding, or comparable logistical contracts for Israeli military, prison, border-police, or detention facilities, nor of Boeing construction activity in occupied territory.6

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Boeing’s Global Services segment provides digital solutions and analytics to commercial and defence customers generally. In 2018, Boeing and Assembrix announced a memorandum permitting Boeing to use Assembrix software to manage and protect intellectual property shared with design and manufacturing vendors in additive manufacturing. The stated purpose was secure design-data distribution within a manufacturing “digital thread.”9, 19

In July 2022, Boeing Israel announced a cooperation agreement with the Israel National Cyber Directorate on civil-aviation cybersecurity, including knowledge sharing, threat identification, risk-and-mitigation methodology, and development of civil-aviation cyber-defence solutions. The announcement named Gaby Portnoy, Ido Nehushtan, and Brian Connelly as signatories or participants.20

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The Assembrix announcement does not establish enterprise-wide implementation, hosting location, data residency, controlled-data handling, duration, or whether the relationship remains active.19 The civil-aviation cybersecurity announcement does not disclose consideration, products, system access, data flows, implementation, duration, or continuing activity after 2022.20

No public evidence identified of Boeing operating Israeli data centres; participating in Project Nimbus; providing cloud, sovereign-cloud, data-residency, administrative-IT, communications-infrastructure, intelligence, offensive-cyber, exploit, surveillance, biometric, AI, or autonomous decision-support services to Israeli state, military, or intelligence bodies.7, 17 No public evidence identified of a Boeing digital-technology regulatory inquiry, export-control proceeding, sanctions investigation, or organised campaign concerning provision of digital technology to Israeli state entities or occupied-territory operations.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Boeing states that its 2018 umbrella agreement with Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry directed at least 35% of the value of Israeli-government defence procurements to Israel-based companies and suppliers. In 2020, it reported that cooperation projects had strengthened Israel’s aerospace industry by nearly US$1 billion over three years.5 Boeing’s backgrounder also described more than 45 suppliers across Israel and US$3.5 billion in economic benefit through reciprocal procurement, while not identifying the suppliers, dates, ownership, or continuing status of individual relationships.15

Boeing and IAI are documented collaborators on Arrow missile-defence projects. Boeing’s Israel product page states that Boeing and IAI jointly produce Arrow II and develop Arrow III for Israel’s Ministry of Defense; it attributes approximately 35% of Arrow II components to Boeing’s Huntsville facility and final assembly and system integration in Israel to IAI.16

Boeing has a documented Tel Aviv office and a listed Rishon LeZion distribution-services location. It describes Israel as an important aerospace market and partner, but the sources reviewed do not establish an Israeli acquisition, factory, data centre, Israel-specific revenue, Israeli tax payments, profit-repatriation data, local real-estate holdings, or an Israeli R&D centre.12, 13, 15

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The reciprocal-procurement record establishes Boeing’s own reported aggregate economic effects, not a complete map of recipients, financial flows, sites, ownership, or current individual commitments.5, 15 Non-listing of an Israeli entity in a significant-subsidiary exhibit cannot establish that no smaller registration exists, because the exhibit is selective.14

No public evidence identified of Boeing holding Israeli sovereign debt, Israel Bonds, disclosed Israel-focused fund positions, Israeli Preferred Technology Enterprise status, Israeli tax residency, or a Boeing office, warehouse, locally controlled subsidiary, or facility in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights.8, 17 No public evidence identified of consumer-product labelling activity or identified sales, service, distributor, or supplier locations in settlements.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

Boeing’s political and state-partnership nexus is documented primarily through official procurement relationships and corporate statements surrounding them. In the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s November 2024 F-15 announcement, Boeing Israel President Ido Nehushtan said Boeing took pride in its longstanding relationship with Israel and would continue working through U.S. and Israeli government military-procurement channels.2

Israel’s Ministry of Defense described the 2024 F-15 transaction as deepening U.S.-Israel defence cooperation. In March 2026, it announced approval to advance a second F-15IA squadron from Boeing, including a proposed package of integration, sustainment, spare parts, and logistics support.22 Boeing also maintains a U.S. federal corporate PAC, but the cited FEC and Boeing advocacy materials do not identify its contributions as Israel- or Palestine-specific.25

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The Ministry’s description of defence cooperation and Boeing’s participation do not establish a Boeing corporate position on Palestinian civilian harm or the conflict generally. No public evidence identified of a Boeing public statement addressing Palestinian civilian harm, a ceasefire, or wider Israel/Palestine human-rights issues.2

The March 2026 second-squadron record is an approval-stage announcement, not proof of a completed contract.22 No public evidence identified of Boeing financial donations to FIDF, JNF/KKL, settlement organisations, reservist funds, military-welfare bodies, settlement-event sponsorship, or conflict-period free services or logistics. No Boeing-specific OECD National Contact Point case was verified in the bounded review; that does not establish that no complaint has ever been filed.26

No public evidence identified of Boeing facilities, dealerships, resellers, supplier sites, or service locations in settlements, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights. The supplied document-scoped review found no Boeing listing in the 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database update and no Boeing mention in A/HRC/59/23; those are document-specific findings, not proof of no relationship or activity elsewhere.27, 28

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military9.507.009.009.50
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic5.505.509.004.32
Political5.506.109.004.79

Military sets V_MAX because the record documents Boeing’s role in Israeli F-15 procurement and proposed munitions transactions, as well as reported Boeing-associated weapons-fragment identification. The other-domain scores reflect documented industrial and state-procurement ties while preserving the absence of verified digital-state-service and settlement-operation evidence. The method is scale-free, evidence-only, and human-vetted; it does not treat unsupported, transitive, or unresolved claims as established fact.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/files/mas/Press%20Release%20-%20Israel%2024-01%20CN.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  2. https://www.mod.gov.il/en/press-releases/press-room/israel-mod-acquires-25-advanced-f-15-aircraft-for-52-billion ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  3. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/israel-opt-us-made-munitions-killed-43-civilians-in-two-documented-israeli-air-strikes-in-gaza-new-investigation/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/israel-opt-new-evidence-of-unlawful-israeli-attacks-in-gaza-causing-mass-civilian-casualties-amid-real-risk-of-genocide/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  5. https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2020-06-24-Boeing-Boosts-Israeli-Aerospace-Industry-by-1B-in-Three-Years ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  6. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  7. https://www.mod.gov.il/en/departments/applications-and-technology-department ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  8. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000162828026004357/ba-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  9. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000162828026004357/ba-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000119312526096787/d39411ddef14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. https://www.boeing.com/company/general-info/corporate-governance ↩

  12. https://www.boeing.co.il/boeing-offices-in-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  13. https://services.boeing.com/bgsmedias/sys_master/pdf/pdf/h5c/h49/8915117768734/BDSI-Overview-Flyer.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000162828026004357/a202512dec3110kex21.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://www.boeing.com/content/dam/boeing/boeingdotcom/company/key_orgs/boeing-international/pdf/israelbackgrounder.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  16. https://www.boeing.co.il/products-and-services/defense-space-security/missile-defense-systems/arrow-ii-arrow-iii ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  17. https://www.boeing.co.il/news/2022/israel-to-collaborate-with-boeing-on-advancing-cybersecurity-in-civil-aviation ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  18. https://www.boeing.com/content/dam/boeing/boeingdotcom/company/key_orgs/boeing-global/pdf/israelbackgrounder.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2018-05-14-Boeing-Assembrix-to-Collaborate-on-Secure-3D-printing ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  20. https://www.boeing.co.il/news/2022/israel-to-collaborate-with-boeing-on-advancing-cybersecurity-in-civil-aviation ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  21. https://www.dsca.mil/Press-Media/Major-Arms-Sales/Article-Display/Article/4060920/israel-munitions-guidance-kits-fuzes-and-munitions-support ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  22. https://mod.gov.il/en/press-releases/press-room/idf-to-receive-two-new-fighter-squadrons ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  23. https://www.boeing.com/features/2026/05/boeing-delivers-first-kc-46-to-the-israel-air-force ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  24. https://www.boeing.com/defense/weapon-systems/precision-guided-munitions ↩

  25. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00142711/ ↩ ↩2

  26. https://www.oecd.org/en/networks/national-contact-points-for-responsible-business-conduct/database.html ↩ ↩2

  27. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19 ↩ ↩2

  28. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2