Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement
GrapheneOS Foundation is an active Canadian federal not-for-profit corporation incorporated on 17 March 2023, and the official registry lists Khalykbek Yelshibekov, Daniel Micay, and Dmytro Mukhomor as directors 1. GrapheneOS describes itself as an independent, donation-funded non-profit project that is not strongly associated with a particular company 2, 3, 4.
No public evidence identified of a GrapheneOS Foundation, GrapheneOS project, or named principal holding an Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or other Israeli-security-body contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum of understanding, or procurement relationship.
No public evidence identified of GrapheneOS in SIBAT-related searches, Israeli defence-trade listings, or searches pairing the project with Elbit Systems, Rafael, or Israel Aerospace Industries.
Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants
GrapheneOS presents its software as an open-source mobile operating system whose code is owned by individual developers and released under OSI-approved licences 2. Public availability of that software alone does not establish a direct sale, military end-user relationship, or military-specific supply arrangement 2.
No public evidence identified that GrapheneOS markets a ruggedised, tactical, mil-spec, defence-grade, or Israeli-security-force-specific variant. Its published materials do not present GrapheneOS as a military-targeting, fire-control, weapons-integration, or kinetic-effects product 2.
No public evidence identified of Israeli military end-user certificates, export-licence applications, export-control decisions, or contract-modified GrapheneOS builds for Israeli defence or security end users.
Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure
GrapheneOS’s described product is mobile operating-system software rather than heavy equipment, construction machinery, engineering services, or infrastructure systems 2.
No public evidence identified of GrapheneOS equipment or services being used for settlement construction, demolitions, the separation barrier, checkpoints, military installations, or related infrastructure in the occupied Palestinian territory or Golan Heights.
No public evidence identified of direct or intermediary construction, engineering, maintenance, or logistics contracts involving GrapheneOS and those sites.
Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes
No public evidence identified of GrapheneOS supplying components, software subsystems, raw materials, specialist manufacturing, licensed technology, or co-development services to Elbit, IAI, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another identified Israeli defence prime.
No public evidence identified of a GrapheneOS-developed system designed to produce targeting decisions or weapons effects. General-purpose mobile-OS availability would not, without evidence of a military-specific implementation, establish a defence-prime supply relationship 2.
GrapheneOS states that multiple companies collaborate with the project, but its published history does not identify them or designate any as a parent, subsidiary, affiliate, franchisee, licensee, or defence-sector customer 3.
Logistical Sustainment & Base Services
No public evidence identified of GrapheneOS providing catering, transport, fuel, facilities, telecommunications, freight, port handling, or other sustainment services to IDF bases, detention facilities, or Israeli security installations.
No public evidence identified of GrapheneOS service activity at installations in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights, or Negev.
The available official materials identify GrapheneOS Foundation as the account holder for listed donation channels and describe the Foundation’s purpose as receiving and distributing donations, rather than providing base or logistics services 3, 4.
Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms
No public evidence identified.
No public evidence identified that GrapheneOS is a prime contractor, licensed manufacturer, integrator, maintainer, or component supplier for Israeli lethal systems, munitions, missile defence, aircraft, tanks, naval systems, or ballistic-missile platforms.
No public evidence identified of GrapheneOS supply of guidance, radar, fire-control, propulsion, warhead, or weapons-integration subsystems to Israeli forces or defence manufacturers.
Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History
No public evidence identified of an export-licence grant, denial, suspension, revocation, enforcement action, sanctions matter, court challenge, or judicial-review proceeding concerning GrapheneOS defence supply to an Israeli military or security end user.
The supplied document review found no GrapheneOS mention in the 2025 UN Special Rapporteur report From economy of occupation to economy of genocide, including the identified military, surveillance, and heavy-machinery material; this is a document-scoped negative finding rather than evidence of database-wide absence 5.
The supplied review also found no GrapheneOS mention in the checked OHCHR settlement-business database materials, including the 2023 database and 2025 update; this remains document-scoped only 6, 7.
The Canadian registry identifies a not-for-profit structure and directors, but does not identify share capital, shareholders holding 10% or more, a CEO, or a chair designation in the reviewed record 1.
Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations
The supplied canonical-library review found no GrapheneOS mention in the checked full texts of the 2023 and 2025 OHCHR materials, the 2025 UN report, PAX’s June 2024 report, Al-Haq’s July 2024 report, and other enumerated local reports; this is report-scoped and does not establish that no material exists elsewhere 5, 6, 7.
The first targeted search batch did not identify a GrapheneOS-specific AFSC Investigate company record or a GrapheneOS-specific Who Profits result 8. AFSC describes its database as covering companies connected to specified occupation-related violations rather than every company operating in Israel 8.
No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment, exclusion, or corporate-response campaign specifically alleging GrapheneOS defence-sector activity in Israel or Palestine.
Targeted searches concerning the three listed directors did not produce supportable primary-source evidence of Israeli-defence directorships, military-fund donations, public co-belligerency statements, or related corporate acts; this is a bounded-search result rather than a comprehensive absence finding 1.
GrapheneOS states that Daniel Micay founded the project in late 2014 and that the former sponsoring company is no longer associated with GrapheneOS 3. The official project GitHub profile lists Toronto, Ontario, Canada and confirms control of grapheneos.org 9.