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Google ECONOMIC

ECONOMIC AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-08
Economic Score 7.40 /10 A Google - Complicity Index 924
Economic 7.40

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Supply Chain & Sourcing Relationships

No public evidence identified.

Product Origin, Labeling & Regulatory Compliance

Google’s mapping products document the geographic and cartographic treatment of Israeli settlements and Palestinian territories. Google Maps systematically omits Palestinian villages while displaying Israeli settlements in the West Bank 1. Google Maps displays settlements including Ma’ale Adumim, Ariel, Modi’in Illit, Beitar Illit, and Har Homa (East Jerusalem) with Israeli postal codes 1. Google Maps provides routing for Israeli settlers on West Bank bypass roads that are inaccessible to Palestinian residents 1. Google Street View coverage is present in Israeli settlements but significantly reduced or absent in Palestinian villages in Area B and Area C 1.

Google Hotels surfaces accommodation listings within Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem without geographic or legal disclosure distinguishing them from Israeli sovereign territory 2.

The Google Play Store is fully operational in Israeli settlements. The “Al Munasseq” (The Coordinator) app operated by the Israeli Civil Administration is available on Google Play with over one million downloads and requires Palestinian users to grant access to contacts, camera, location, and files 3.

Investment, Capital & Financial Exposure

Google completed the acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz in March 2026 for $32 billion - the largest-ever exit in Israeli technology history 4. Drop Site reported in April 2025 that all four Wiz co-founders served in IDF Unit 8200 5. CapitalG (Alphabet’s growth equity fund) led a $140 million Series D investment in Salt Security (Israeli API cybersecurity startup) in 2022, valuing the company at $1.4 billion 6. Salt Security’s founders are IDF veterans 6. Google participated in AI21 Labs’ $155 million Series C funding round in August 2023 7. May 2025 reporting said AI21 was raising a $300 million Series D with Google and Nvidia backing; the cited 2023 company release does not establish that later round closing or Google’s individual contribution 8.

Google Cloud launched the me-west1 region in Tel Aviv in October 2022 9. Google maintains Israeli R&D operations; the cited November 2022 report estimated about 2,000 total Israeli employees, not 2,000 engineers in 2024 or a verified post-Wiz workforce 10. A landlord’s September 2024 filing confirms that Google Israel Ltd signed a 25 June 2024 lease for about 60,000 square metres at ToHa2, for ten years from Q1 2027 subject to construction completion, with a five-year exit option and annual rent around ILS115 million 11.

No public evidence identified of direct holdings in Israeli sovereign bonds or Israel-focused investment funds by Alphabet.

Operational Presence & Market Activity

Google Israel Ltd. is the registered Israeli entity for commercial and R&D operations 10. Google Cloud Israel Ltd. is the registered Israeli entity for cloud business operations 10. Google’s current Israeli headquarters is located at Electra Tower, Yigal Alon St 98, Tel Aviv 10. The signed ToHa2 lease is scheduled to commence in Q1 2027 subject to completion, rather than establishing an already completed relocation 11.

Project Nimbus is a $1.2 billion cloud and AI services contract awarded to Google and AWS by the Israeli government (Ministry of Finance and Israeli Defense Ministry) in April 2021 12. The contract covers cloud migration for Israeli government ministries, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), and affiliated state bodies 12. The Israeli Ministry of Defense has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud and sought to expand access for “multiple units” to automation technologies 13. Project Nimbus includes weapons manufacturers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and Elta as entities subject to mandatory procurement through the Google/AWS framework; this does not establish purchases from both suppliers or individual contract values 14. As of the latest available reporting (through early 2026), Project Nimbus remains active with no public announcement of suspension or wind-down 2.

The IDF accessed Vertex AI for military operations post-October 2023 15. In November 2024, internal Google documents showed IDF requesting Gemini AI access for processing documents and audio 16.

Corporate Structure & Foundational Ties

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University in California and is incorporated in Delaware. Alphabet Inc. is legally domiciled in Delaware and operationally headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA. Google Israel Ltd. and Google Cloud Israel Ltd. are registered subsidiaries within Israeli jurisdiction. The UN Special Rapporteur report (A/HRC/59/23, June 2025) names Google among 48 corporate actors providing material infrastructure enabling Israeli military operations 17. The Settlement Division of the World Zionist Organization is documented as a Project Nimbus customer 2. Google facilitates employee donation matching to Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces (FIDF) and HaYovel (a Christian Zionist organization operating in Israeli settlements) via the Benevity platform 18.

Wiz was acquired in March 2026 4. Its own February 2024 announcement reported over 900 employees worldwide, not 900 in Israel; that historical global count does not establish a current Israeli workforce 19. Google’s June 2013 Waze acquisition announcement said the development team would remain in Israel 20. Google Cloud’s August 2023 announcement confirms a strategic partnership with the Israeli National Cyber Directorate involving Google Cloud and Mandiant, using Chronicle security operations, threat intelligence and AI for national and sector security operations centres 21.

Profit Repatriation & Economic Contribution

No country-level revenue figure for Israel has been publicly disclosed by Alphabet in its SEC filings. Project Nimbus internal projections suggested $3.3 billion in Israeli cloud revenue from 2023 to 2027 15. Google/Alphabet is assessed by Israeli industry as a critical anchor for the Israeli high-tech ecosystem, through its local R&D and acquisitions; no verified ranking as Israel’s second-largest employer was identified 4, 10. The UN Special Rapporteur report explicitly identifies Google, along with Microsoft, Amazon, HP, IBM, and Palantir, as corporate actors enabling Israel’s “economy of occupation to economy of genocide” through cloud and AI technology provision 17.

In April 2024, approximately 50 Google employees staged sit-in protests at Google offices in New York and Sunnyvale, protesting Project Nimbus 22. Google fired 28 employees in direct connection with the protests 22. The Nimbus-related NLRB case 02-CA-341152 was filed on 29 April 2024; its current docket is closed and records approval of a withdrawal request on 30 January 2026. That procedural entry is not an adjudication of the retaliation allegations 23.

Proposal 9, a shareholder resolution requesting a due diligence report on Alphabet’s customer use in conflict-affected areas, received approximately 4.5% support in 2025 24. A similar resolution (Proposal 11) was filed by Zevin Asset Management in 2026 25.

Project Nimbus confirmed continuing operations post-19 July 2024 (ICJ Advisory Opinion) and post-November 2024 (ICC arrest warrants) 2. The signed $32 billion Wiz agreement was announced on 18 March 2025 and completed on 11 March 2026 4, 26. The ToHa2 lease was signed on 25 June 2024, before the July advisory opinion, for a term scheduled to begin in Q1 2027 11.

Footnotes

  1. https://7amleh.org/ms/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/7400 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evendigitals.elmunasek&hl=en_US ↩

  4. https://abc.xyz/investor/news/news-details/2026/Google-Completes-Acquisition-of-Wiz-2026-ta7OaU2uA0/default.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-acquisition-tech-wiz-israel-gaza-8200 ↩

  6. https://www.capitalg.com/portfolio/salt-security ↩ ↩2

  7. https://www.ai21.com/blog/series-c-funding ↩

  8. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkuxkg6gle ↩

  9. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/new-google-cloud-region-in-israel-is-now-open ↩

  10. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skpvb5ors ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  11. https://mayafiles.tase.co.il/rpdf/1626001-1627000/P1626449-00.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-aws-win-12-billion-israel-nimbus-tender-for-cloud-services ↩ ↩2

  13. https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war ↩

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

  15. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/21/google-ai-israel-war-hamas-attack-gaza ↩ ↩2

  16. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-838681 ↩

  17. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf ↩ ↩2

  18. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/google-criticised-matching-donations-charities-supporting-israeli-soldiers-and-settlements ↩

  19. https://www.newswire.com/news/the-road-to-1-billion-in-arr-wiz-appoints-dali-rajic-to-president-22235455 ↩

  20. https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/google-maps-and-waze-outsmarting/ ↩

  21. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/cybershield-helping-governments-stand-united-against-cyber-attacks/ ↩

  22. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-fires-workers-protest-israel-contract-project-nimbus-rcna148333 ↩ ↩2

  23. https://www.nlrb.gov/case/02-CA-341152 ↩

  24. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000092189525001315/px14a6g14098010_05072025.htm ↩

  25. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000092189526000931/px14a6g21000160_01-28-2026.pdf ↩

  26. https://abc.xyz/investor/news/news-details/2025/Google-Announces-Agreement-to-Acquire-Wiz-03-18-2025/default.aspx ↩