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Check Point🇮🇱

Cybersecurity & VPN 118 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-08-26 METHOD V6.4
BDS-1000 Score 823 /1000 A Tier A - Extreme
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 6.10 Economic ↗ 9.00 Political ↗ 7.00
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Key Findings

  • Political/Brand: Check Point’s founding narrative, leadership, and public messaging are deeply enmeshed with Israeli state cyber institutions - the company is a founding member of the IAI-led Israeli Cyber Companies Consortium (IC3), was the first vendor to implement the Israel National Cyber Directorate’s national cyber-defence methodology, and its 30 October 2023 corporate blog adopted the IDF’s “Iron Swords” operation name while omitting any reference to Palestinian civilian casualties.1, 2, 3
  • Economic: Check Point is Israeli-incorporated, Tel Aviv–headquartered, and is investing ~NIS 500 million in a new Tel Aviv campus on land where the state-owned Israel Electric Corporation is the long-term lessee, while co-founder Gil Shwed (24.6% owner) is a 2018 Israel Prize laureate.4, 5
  • Digital/Personnel: Check Point’s controlling leadership cohort - CEO Nadav Zafrir (former Commander, Unit 8200), Executive Chairman Gil Shwed, and CTO Jonathan Zanger (former Unit 8200 R&D lead) - carries an exceptional density of Israeli military-intelligence service, and the company has acquired numerous Israeli, Unit-8200-founded cybersecurity startups.6, 7, 8
  • Not found: No named contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Shin Bet, or Mossad has been identified; no evidence of lethal weapons, munitions, or dual-use military hardware production; Check Point does not appear in the OHCHR settlement-business database or the Who Profits database.9, 10, 11

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameCheck Point Software Technologies Ltd.
JurisdictionIsrael (incorporated; Israeli Companies Registry ID 520042821); listed on NASDAQ (CHKP), no separate foreign parent 12
Headquarters5 Ha’Solelim Street, Tel Aviv 6789705, Israel; primary US operations in San Carlos, California 13
SectorCybersecurity / Information Technology (software, cloud security, security appliances)
OwnershipPublic company (NASDAQ: CHKP); largest named shareholder is co-founder Gil Shwed (~24.6%); institutional holders include Vanguard and BlackRock 4, 14
Key Executives / GovernanceNadav Zafrir, CEO (from Dec. 2024), former Commander of IDF Unit 8200; Gil Shwed, co-founder and Executive Chairman, Unit 8200 veteran, 2018 Israel Prize laureate; Marius Nacht, co-founder, IDF Talpiot programme, retired IAF Captain; Dorit Dor, Check Point Fellow, Unit 8200 veteran, 1993 Israel National Defense Prize recipient; Jonathan Zanger, CTO (from July 2025), former Unit 8200 R&D lead; Yoav Chelouche, Lead Independent Director, former co-chair of Israel Advanced Technology Industries 6, 7, 15, 16
Israeli-Nexus SummaryIsraeli-founded, Israeli-incorporated, Tel Aviv-headquartered cybersecurity vendor led by a cohort of former Israeli military-intelligence officers, structurally integrated into Israeli state cyber-defence initiatives, with no documented direct military-hardware or lethal-systems supply chain

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Check Point Software Technologies is an Israeli-founded, Israeli-incorporated, and Tel Aviv-headquartered cybersecurity company whose nexus to the Israeli state is documented primarily through corporate origin, leadership biography, institutional participation, and public messaging rather than through direct weapons production or occupation-linked commerce. The company’s founding technology was developed by Gil Shwed during his service in IDF Unit 8200, and its subsequent executive and board cohort - including CEO Nadav Zafrir (former Unit 8200 Commander), CTO Jonathan Zanger (former Unit 8200 R&D lead), and Fellow Dorit Dor (Unit 8200 veteran and Israel Defense Prize recipient) - reflects an unusually dense concentration of Israeli military-intelligence pedigree at the top of the company 6, 7, 8, 15.

The strongest documented vectors are political and economic. Politically, Check Point is a founding member of two IAI-led national consortia (IC3 and IAC3) established under Israeli Ministry of Economy auspices, was the first company to embed the Israel National Cyber Directorate’s national cyber-defence methodology into its commercial products, and adopted the IDF’s official “Iron Swords” operation terminology in corporate communications about the Gaza war without corresponding reference to Palestinian civilian harm - a contrast with its more even-handed public language on the Russia-Ukraine war 1, 3, 22. Economically, Check Point is deeply embedded in the Israeli state and economy: it is investing roughly NIS 500 million in a new Tel Aviv campus on land where the state-owned Israel Electric Corporation is the long-term lessee, it has been named among firms targeted by the Israel Innovation Authority’s royalty-bearing R&D grant programme, and its controlling shareholder Gil Shwed is a 2018 Israel Prize laureate 4, 23, 24.

What is not supported by the audit evidence is any direct military-industrial or occupation-commerce nexus. No named contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Shin Bet, or Mossad has been identified in any source reviewed; the sole confirmed named Israeli government client is the civilian Ministry of Environmental Protection 9, 25. Check Point produces no mil-spec hardware, is absent from advocacy databases tracking direct arms suppliers (AFSC, PAX), and does not appear in the UN OHCHR settlement-business database or the Who Profits database 10, 11, 26. Claims that Check Point is “the security gatekeeper” for Project Nimbus are explicitly characterized in the audits as inferential and unconfirmed by any named contract 27.

The resulting BRS of 823 (Tier A, Extreme) is therefore driven not by weapons manufacturing or settlement infrastructure but by the convergence of an Israeli corporate domicile, an economically material and scale-heavy embedding in the Israeli state/economy, and sustained political-brand alignment with Israeli state cyber-defence institutions and messaging - while the Military domain scores zero across all sub-indicators.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
1993Check Point founded in Ramat Gan/Tel Aviv by Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht, and Shlomo Kramer; core firewall technology developed during Shwed’s IDF Unit 8200 service 28, 6
2008Check Point establishes an information-security research institute at Tel Aviv University, jointly governed and financed 29
2016Check Point co-founds IC3, led by Israel Aerospace Industries under Israeli Ministry of Economy auspices 2
June 2016Turkish military General Staff stops using Check Point firewall solutions, per later parliamentary confirmation 30
March 2017IC3 wins contract (reported “tens of millions of dollars”) for a national cyber-defence centre in an unnamed Latin American country; Check Point supplies threat prevention and forensic tooling 31, 32
November 2018Check Point co-founds IAC3 with IAI and others, under Israeli Ministry of Economy backing, for aviation-sector cybersecurity 21, 33
December 2019Turkey’s Ministry of Treasury and Finance awards a public tender for Check Point software licences to local distributor Trio Entegrasyon 30
2018Gil Shwed receives the Israel Prize in Technology and Innovation 34
30 October 2023Check Point corporate blog publishes “Evolving Cyber Dynamics Amidst the Israel-Hamas Conflict,” adopting IDF “Iron Swords” terminology 1
30 October 2023CEO Gil Shwed discloses on Q3 earnings call that ~5% of global headcount received IDF reserve call-up notices post-7 October 35
27 November 2024Turkish Defense Minister confirms 2016 military discontinuation of Check Point firewalls amid parliamentary scrutiny 30
December 2024Nadav Zafrir (former Unit 8200 Commander) becomes CEO; Gil Shwed becomes Executive Chairman 7, 15
March 2025Check Point and Israel Canada win Tel Aviv municipal tender for the Kremenetski/Bitsaron site (~NIS 800m total; Check Point ~NIS 500m) 36, 4
July 2025Jonathan Zanger (former Unit 8200 R&D lead, ex-Trigo CTO) appointed Check Point CTO 8
25 September 2025Check Point announces FedRAMP authorization of Infinity Platform for Government 37
2025–2026Check Point acquires several Israeli startups (Cyberint, Veriti, Cyclops, Cyata, Rotate, Deepchecks), many founded by Unit 8200 veterans 38, 39

Corporate Overview

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli-incorporated public company (Israeli Companies Registry ID 520042821) listed on NASDAQ under ticker CHKP, with no separate foreign parent corporation 12. Its global headquarters and primary R&D centre are located in Tel Aviv, with a secondary Israeli presence in Be’er Sheva’s “Cyber Spark” cluster adjacent to Ben-Gurion University; the company employs roughly 6,000–6,825 people globally, with the majority of engineering and R&D staff based in Israel (~2,000 R&D personnel) 19, 40. Product lines are organized around four commercial software pillars - Quantum, Harmony, CloudGuard, and Infinity - with no hardware manufacturing beyond commercial security appliances 41.

The company has an extensive history of acquiring Israeli-founded cybersecurity startups, several founded by former Unit 8200 personnel, including Dome9 (2018), Odo Security (2020), ForceNock (2020), Avanan (2021), Spectral (2022), Atmosec (2023), Perimeter 81 (2023), Cyberint (2024), Veriti (2024), and Cyclops, Cyata, Rotate, and Deepchecks (2025–2026) 42, 38. Check Point maintains a Turkish subsidiary (Check Point Yazılım Teknolojileri Pazarlama AŞ, established 2002) whose board consists of Israeli nationals resident in Israel 43. No public evidence identified of Check Point operational branches, resellers, or facilities within West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights settlements 11.

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No named contract between Check Point and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police has been identified in any source reviewed 9. The company’s most significant documented defence-adjacent relationship is founding membership in the IAI-led IC3 and IAC3 consortia, through which Check Point supplies commercial threat-prevention, access-control, and forensic-tooling software as one component of larger national-level cyber-defence and aviation-security projects 2, 21. Check Point products were confirmed integrated into Israel’s National Cyber Directorate’s methodology framework at the national level 3. Its US government channel partner Carahsoft markets Check Point explicitly to DoD and intelligence-community customers 44. Turkish military use of Check Point firewalls was confirmed to have ceased in June 2016 30. Leadership carries dense IDF military-intelligence pedigree: CEO Nadav Zafrir (founder of IDF Cyber Command, Commander of Unit 8200, retired Brigadier General), Executive Chairman Gil Shwed (Unit 8200), co-founder Marius Nacht (IDF Talpiot, retired IAF Captain), and Fellow Dorit Dor (Unit 8200, Israel National Defense Prize 1993) 6, 7, 15, 45.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Check Point is a software-only company producing no mil-spec or ruggedised hardware 46. It does not appear in advocacy databases tracking direct arms suppliers, including AFSC’s “Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide” list or PAX’s “The Companies Arming Israel and Their Financiers” 10. No public evidence identified of involvement in Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, combat aircraft, tank, or warship programmes, nor of supplying guidance electronics, fire-control systems, or munitions of any kind 47. No public evidence identified of export-licence grants, denials, or reviews specific to sales to Israeli military end-users 48. The heavy-machinery, logistics-sustainment, and munitions sub-domains are structurally inapplicable to Check Point’s software profile, with uniformly negative findings 49, 50.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Israel Aerospace Industries (IC3/IAC3 consortium lead) 2; Israel National Cyber Directorate 3; Carahsoft (US DoD/IC reseller) 44; Turkish General Staff (former end-user, discontinued 2016) 30; Nadav Zafrir, Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht, Dorit Dor, Shlomo Kramer (military-intelligence-linked founders/executives) 6, 7, 15, 45.

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Check Point is a founding, structurally embedded participant in Israel’s national cyber-defence ecosystem, being the first vendor to implement the Israel National Cyber Directorate’s “Cyber Defense Methodology” in its commercial products 3. Its confirmed named Israeli government client is the Ministry of Environmental Protection, deploying Quantum SD-WAN and Infinity Portal 25. Leadership includes multiple Unit 8200 veterans in technical roles, including CTO Jonathan Zanger (former Unit 8200 R&D lead, former CTO of Israeli computer-vision retail biometrics firm Trigo) 8. Check Point’s own customer-story materials confirm it secures the AWS migration of Ramat-Gan Municipality, described therein as “a participant in Israel’s Nimbus cloud computing project” 51. Check Point’s core technologies (DPI, SSL/TLS inspection, SASE) are inherently dual-use and support Lawful Interception interfaces compliant with CALEA/ETSI standards 52.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Check Point is explicitly NOT named as a primary contractor or subcontractor on Project Nimbus in any public tender documentation; the claim that it is “the security gatekeeper” for Nimbus is characterized by the audit as inferential and unconfirmed 27. Wiz, not Check Point, won Israel’s major 2024 government cloud-security tender 53. No public evidence identified of direct commercial integration with BriefCam or AnyVision/Oosto, nor of Check Point reselling Israeli predictive-policing or social-media-monitoring tools 54. No public evidence identified of offensive cyber-weapon development, AI models trained on surveillance-derived Palestinian or Israeli population data, or involvement in autonomous lethal systems 55. No public evidence identified of a documented technology integration with Trigo’s biometric retail platform despite the Zanger personnel linkage 56. Check Point is not listed in the OHCHR settlement-business database, the Albanese report’s identified sections, or the Who Profits database 11.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Israel National Cyber Directorate 3; Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection 25; Ramat-Gan Municipality (Nimbus participant) 51; Jonathan Zanger / Trigo 8; NHS Scotland (non-Israeli confirmed customer, for comparison) 57.

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Check Point is Israeli-incorporated and Tel Aviv-domiciled, meaning global profits flow into Israel as the corporate parent rather than being repatriated abroad 58. The company is constructing a new 100,000 sq. m Tel Aviv campus (~NIS 500 million) as part of an ~NIS 800 million tender on land where the state-owned Israel Electric Corporation is the long-term lessee 4, 23. Check Point has been named among firms targeted by the Israel Innovation Authority’s royalty-bearing R&D grant programme (typically 3-5% revenue royalties) 24. It employs ~2,000 R&D staff in Israel and completed multiple 2025-2026 acquisitions of Israeli startups (Cyclops, $85m; Cyata; Rotate; Deepchecks) 38, 39. Controlling shareholder Gil Shwed (24.6%) is a 2018 Israel Prize laureate 4, 34.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of Check Point sourcing from Israeli agricultural exporters/aggregators, settlement-origin products, or country-of-origin labeling issues - the company’s software/appliance business model is structurally inapplicable to these sub-domains 59, 60. No public evidence identified of state ownership stakes, golden shares, or government board appointees 61. Check Point is not listed in the OHCHR settlement database, the “Don’t Buy Into Occupation” list, or Who Profits 62. Israel-specific revenue is not separately disclosed; Israel is bundled within EMEA (~46% of $2.57bn total revenue) 18.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Israel Canada (campus co-developer) 4; Israel Electric Corporation (site lessee) 23; Israel Innovation Authority 24; Gil Shwed (controlling shareholder) 4, 34; Cyclops, Cyata, Rotate, Deepchecks (2025-26 Israeli acquisitions) 38, 39.

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

Check Point’s 30 October 2023 corporate blog post adopted the IDF’s official “Iron Swords” operation framing and, alongside its 18 October 2023 companion post, catalogued attacks on Israeli targets without referencing Palestinian civilian casualties or Gaza humanitarian conditions - a contrast to the company’s more attributive, harm-acknowledging language regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 1, 22. Check Point is a founding member of IC3 and IAC3, both established under Israeli Ministry of Economy auspices with IAI as lead 2, 21. The company is a sponsor/participant at Cybertech Global Tel Aviv, co-organized with the government-backed Israel Export Institute, at which Dorit Dor has spoken and which has featured PM Netanyahu and President Herzog 63, 64. Gil Shwed received the 2018 Israel Prize, describing cybersecurity as “strongly intertwined with the state of Israel and Israeli society” 34. Lead Independent Director Yoav Chelouche formerly co-chaired Israel Advanced Technology Industries (IATI), an industry body engaging Knesset and government policy channels 65. On the 2019 Turkish government tender for Check Point licences and the earlier Turkish military end-use, Turkish parliamentary lawmakers separately raised concerns about the company’s Israeli military-intelligence-linked leadership 30.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Check Point is NOT listed in the OHCHR settlement-business database, the Who Profits database, or (in sections reviewed) the Albanese “economy of genocide” report 11, 62. No public evidence identified of a Check Point corporate PAC, FEC-tracked lobbying expenditure, or anti-BDS legislative lobbying; a single 2008 LD-2 filing (unrelated to Israel/Palestine policy, concerning “foreign ownership of a US cybersecurity company”) is the only located lobbying record 66. No public evidence identified of corporate donations to FIDF, JNF/KKL, or other military-welfare organizations, nor of HR actions against employees over pro-Palestinian speech 67. No primary-source BDS Movement listing naming Check Point as an official target was identified, though PSC (UK) and LGPS Divest list the company on civil-society boycott-adjacent profiles 68, 69. SEC settlement discussions (2024) concern SolarWinds-related disclosure practices, unrelated to Israel export/sanctions matters 70.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Israel National Cyber Directorate 3; IC3/IAC3 (IAI-led) 2, 21; Cybertech Global Tel Aviv / Israel Export Institute 63; Gil Shwed / Israel Prize 34; Yoav Chelouche / IATI 65; Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Corporate Watch, LGPS Divest (civil-society scrutiny) 68, 69, 71; Turkish parliament / Trio Entegrasyon 30.

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital6.107.008.006.10
Economic9.008.009.009.00
Political7.007.007.507.00

V_MAX is driven by the Economic domain, reflecting Check Point’s Israeli incorporation, its material capital investment in a Tel Aviv campus involving a state-owned lessee, its participation in the Israel Innovation Authority’s royalty-bearing grant scheme, and its continual acquisition of Israeli technology assets. The Political and Digital domains both score materially above the Military domain (which is zero across all indicators), producing a composite Tier A (Extreme) classification under the scale-free methodology, in which Impact (activity type), Magnitude (scale), and Proximity (directness) are scored per domain from evidence-only findings across the four vetted domain audits.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://blog.checkpoint.com/security/evolving-cyber-dynamics-amidst-the-israel-hamas-conflict/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220118005269/en/Checkmarx-Joins-Israeli-Cyber-Companies-Consortium-IC3-Led-by-IAI-to-Provide-Industry-leading-AppSec-Capabilities-to-National-Cyber-Defense-Organizations ; https://checkmarx.com/press-releases/checkmarx-joins-israeli-cyber-companies-consortium-ic3-led-by-iai-to-provide-industry-leading-appsec-capabilities-to-national-cyber-defense-organizations/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  3. https://www.gov.il/en/pages/checkpoint ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  4. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-check-point-israel-canada-buying-nis-800m-tel-aviv-site-1001505288 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Shwed ↩

  6. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2017-04-21/ty-article/who-makes-millions-off-israels-top-cyber-spy-agency/0000017f-db2e-d3a5-af7f-fbae453c0000 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  7. https://www.crn.com/news/security/2024/check-point-completes-first-ever-ceo-transition-as-nadav-zafrir-assumes-top-role ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  8. https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2025/7/2/former-trigo-cto-jonathan-zanger-heads-to-check-point-software-as-new-chief-technology-officer ; https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2025/07/21/jonathan-zanger-named-cto-at-check-point-to-boost-ai-cybersecurity/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  9. https://afsc.org/gaza-genocide-companies ; https://paxforpeace.nl/publications/the-companies-arming-israel-and-their-financiers/ ; https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001015922/000117891325000867/zk2532836.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. https://afsc.org/gaza-genocide-companies ; https://paxforpeace.nl/publications/the-companies-arming-israel-and-their-financiers/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. https://www.whoprofits.org ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  12. https://en.checkid.co.il/company/CHECK+POINT+SOFTWARE+TECHNOLOGIES+LTD.-yl3JBZW-520042821 ↩ ↩2

  13. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1015922&type=20-F&dateb=&owner=include&count=10 ↩

  14. https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/investor/2024-CHKP-proxy-statement.pdf ↩

  15. https://www.stocktitan.net/news/CHKP/gil-shwed-takes-on-the-role-of-executive-chairman-of-the-board-of-145x96trwek7.html ; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-24/israel-cybersecurity-giant-check-point-names-nadav-zafrir-as-ceo ; https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-check-point-names-nadav-zafrir-as-new-ceo/ ; https://www.reuters.com/technology/israels-check-point-software-aims-go-it-alone-cyber-security-sales-rise-2025-07-30 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoav_Chelouche ↩

  17. https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-CHKP/financials-revenue ↩

  18. https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-CHKP/financials-revenue ↩ ↩2

  19. https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/investor/20F-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2

  20. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015922/000117891325000867/zk2532836.htm ; https://en.checkid.co.il/company/CHECK+POINT+SOFTWARE+TECHNOLOGIES+LTD.-yl3JBZW-520042821 ↩

  21. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-firms-ministry-set-up-consortium-to-tackle-aviation-cyberthreats/ ; https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/36374 ; https://asianaviation.com/israels-technology-companies-join-forces-for-the-aviation-industry-ministry-of-economy-iai-and-leading-cyber-companies-announce-consortium-to-develop-cyber-security-solutions-for-commercial-avia/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  22. https://blog.checkpoint.com ↩ ↩2

  23. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-check-point-israel-canada-buying-nis-800m-tel-aviv-site-1001505288 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  24. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-sets-up-plan-to-keep-large-tech-firms-ahead-of-the-curve/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  25. https://www.checkpoint.com/tw/customer-stories/israeli-ministry-of-environmental-protection ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. https://www.ohchr.org/en/business/bhr-database ↩

  27. https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/google-amazon-nimbus-israel-weapons-arms-gaza ↩ ↩2

  28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Shwed ↩

  29. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2008/05/telaviv-u-and-check-point-establish-infosec-research-institute.aspx?admgarea=topic.security ↩

  30. https://nordicmonitor.com/2025/03/cybersecurity-company-check-point-becomes-a-political-target-in-turkey-amid-israeli-hamas-conflict/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  31. https://www.shephardmedia.com ↩

  32. https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/29005 ; https://www.defesanet.com.br/en/e_laad2017/noticia/25255/IC3---Israeli-Cyber-Companies-Consortium-to-establish-a-National-Cyber-Center-in-Brazil/ ; https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-cyber-consortium-lands-multi-million-dollar-latin-america-deal/ ; https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/digital-battlespace/ic3-announces-cyber-centre-deal/ ; https://i-hls.com/archives/75750 ↩

  33. https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/36374 ; https://asianaviation.com/israels-technology-companies-join-forces-for-the-aviation-industry-ministry-of-economy-iai-and-leading-cyber-companies-announce-consortium-to-develop-cyber-security-solutions-for-commercial-avia/ ↩

  34. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Shwed ; https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-founder-ceo-gil-shwed-awarded-israels-top-honor-israel-prize-high-tech-innovation/ ; https://www.timesofisrael.com/check-point-ceo-awarded-first-israel-prize-for-tech/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  35. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/check-point-software-technologies-ltd-124947162.html ; https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/check-point-software-technologies-ltd-nasdaqchkp-q3-2023-earnings-call-transcript-1214205/ ↩

  36. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-check-point-to-build-tel-aviv-campus-1001510668 ↩

  37. https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-software-achieves-fedramp-authorization-empowering-u-s-federal-agencies-with-ai-powered-cyber-security/ ↩

  38. https://www.securityweek.com/check-point-announces-trio-of-acquisitions-amid-solid-2025-earnings-beat ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  39. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hku7df9jfg ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  40. https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/investor/20F-2024.pdf ↩

  41. https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/investor/20F-2024.pdf ↩

  42. https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-software-to-acquire-cyberint-to-transform-security-operations-and-expand-managed-threat-intelligence-solutions/ ; https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-check-point-acquires-israeli-startup-veriti-cybersecurity-1001511448 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_Point#Acquisitions ; https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-software-technologies-to-acquire-perimeter-81/ ; https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-software-technologies-to-acquire-atmosec/ ↩

  43. https://nordicmonitor.com/2025/03/cybersecurity-company-check-point-becomes-a-political-target-in-turkey-amid-israeli-hamas-conflict/ ↩

  44. https://www.checkpoint.com ↩ ↩2

  45. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/11/israel-unit-8200-team8.html ↩ ↩2

  46. https://corporateoccupation.org/2019/11/25/check-point-software-ex-israeli-military-spooks-profiting-from-the-cyber-security-industry/ ↩

  47. https://afsc.org/gaza-genocide-companies ; https://paxforpeace.nl/publications/the-companies-arming-israel-and-their-financiers/ ↩

  48. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001015922/000117891325000867/zk2532836.htm ↩

  49. https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/ps_ohchr_settlement/ ↩

  50. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001015922/000117891325000867/zk2532836.htm ↩

  51. https://www.checkpoint.com/customer-stories/ramat-gan-municipality/ ↩ ↩2

  52. https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/investor/20F-2024.pdf ↩

  53. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-check-point-acquires-israeli-startup-veriti-cybersecurity-1001511448 ↩

  54. https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2025/7/2/former-trigo-cto-jonathan-zanger-heads-to-check-point-software-as-new-chief-technology-officer ; https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2025/07/21/jonathan-zanger-named-cto-at-check-point-to-boost-ai-cybersecurity/ ↩

  55. https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/investor/20F-2024.pdf ↩

  56. https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2025/7/2/former-trigo-cto-jonathan-zanger-heads-to-check-point-software-as-new-chief-technology-officer ; https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2025/07/21/jonathan-zanger-named-cto-at-check-point-to-boost-ai-cybersecurity/ ↩

  57. https://www.checkpoint.com/customer-stories/nhs-scotland ↩

  58. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015922/000117891325000867/zk2532836.htm ; https://en.checkid.co.il/company/CHECK+POINT+SOFTWARE+TECHNOLOGIES+LTD.-yl3JBZW-520042821 ↩

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  63. https://www.cybertechisrael.com/partners ; https://www.cybertechisrael.com/sites/cybertlv2022/files/2026-01/Catalog_Cybertech%20Tel%20Aviv%202026.pdf ↩ ↩2

  64. https://www.jns.org/middle-east-2-0-cybertech-global-tel-aviv-2024/ ↩

  65. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Advanced_Technology_Industries ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoav_Chelouche ↩ ↩2

  66. https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/a1bd5f1c-7690-4b94-a149-85541cfcb645/print/ ↩

  67. https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/a1bd5f1c-7690-4b94-a149-85541cfcb645/print/ ↩

  68. https://palestinecampaign.org/psc-company/check-point-software-tech/ ↩ ↩2

  69. https://lgpsdivest.org/psc-company/check-point-software-tech/ ↩ ↩2

  70. https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/check-point-sec-settlement-solarwinds/702398/ ↩

  71. https://corporatewatch.org/check-point-software-ex-israeli-military-spooks-profiting-from-the-cyber-security-industry/ ↩