Digital Audit: Jeep (Stellantis N.V.)

Audit Date: 30 June 2026

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Palantir Technologies - Core Enterprise Platform

Stellantis has maintained a commercial relationship with Palantir Technologies since 2016 ¹². A global enterprise deal announced in May 2022 deployed Palantir Foundry across all 14 Stellantis brands - explicitly including Jeep - and across all major business functions, covering manufacturing, supply chain, quality, sales and marketing, and after-sales service ¹. The partnership was renewed and expanded in March 2026 to run through 2031, with Palantir AIP added to the deployment scope in select business units ³⁴. AFSC Investigate’s corporate profile of Palantir explicitly names Stellantis - identifying it as the parent company owning Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and other brands - as one of Palantir’s high-profile enterprise clients ². Passblue, writing in October 2025, described Palantir as appearing “seemingly everywhere all at once” across both military and commercial sectors ⁵.

Palantir carries documented and active Israeli military ties ⁶⁷. In January 2024, Palantir announced a strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense covering its AIP, Gotham, Foundry, and GAIA platforms ⁷. The BDS Movement’s updated Palantir Company Complicity Profile (February 2026) documents Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s public statements of support for Israel’s military operations and records Palantir’s provision of AI infrastructure to Israeli military forces ⁶. The UN Special Rapporteur’s report A/HRC/59/23 (Albanese, July 2025) finds reasonable grounds to believe that Palantir provided automatic predictive policing technology, core defence infrastructure, and its AI Platform to enable real-time battlefield data integration for automated decision-making by Israeli forces in Gaza ⁸. The Stellantis–Palantir partnership renewal in March 2026 post-dates both the ICJ Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024 and the ICC arrest warrants issued in November 2024 ³⁴.

No public evidence identified that Palantir maintains data-access segregation preventing Stellantis manufacturing or supply-chain data processed through Foundry from being accessible to Israeli Ministry of Defense-facing Palantir operations.

Vayyar Imaging Ltd. - Israeli Equity Investment

Vayyar Imaging Ltd. (founded 2011, headquartered Yehud, Israel) is an equity portfolio company of Stellantis Ventures, confirmed by Vayyar’s recognition in the investment category of Stellantis’ December 2023 Venture Awards ⁹¹⁰¹¹. Vayyar supplies 4D imaging radar systems for in-cabin monitoring - encompassing seat belt detection, child presence detection, and occupant position classification - applicable across the Stellantis vehicle portfolio including Jeep ⁹¹⁰. Vayyar co-founder and CTO Naftali Chayat held several roles culminating as Chief Engineer in the IDF’s R&D Department, and CEO and co-founder Raviv Melamed held roles within the Israel Defense Forces focused on large-scale radar and communications projects ¹². Vayyar’s product portfolio additionally encompasses homeland security scanning applications marketed to government and security customers ¹². Vayyar’s $108M Series E round (June 2022) was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, GLy Capital, Atreides, Battery Ventures, Bessemer, More VC, Regal Four, and Claltech; Stellantis Ventures was not named among participants in that specific round announcement ¹³¹⁴. The exact timing and round of Stellantis Ventures’ entry into Vayyar are not disclosed in public Stellantis communications ⁹¹⁰. The scope of Vayyar sensor deployment in current production Jeep vehicles has not been confirmed in public disclosures ⁹.

Ituran Location and Control Ltd. - Israeli Connected-Vehicle Supplier

Ituran Location and Control Ltd. (headquartered Azor, Israel) was selected by Stellantis in 2025 to deliver the full-stack “Connect Fiat” connected-vehicle programme for the Fiat Strada in South America, with the contract confirmed and expanded as of February 2026 under an initial three-year term with an optional two-year extension ¹⁵¹⁶¹⁷. Ituran’s scope covers embedded hardware provision, connected vehicle services, backend technology operations, and the end-user mobile application ¹⁵. Ituran’s core telematics technology was originally developed for military use at Tadiran Telematics ¹⁸. Ituran operates in active coordination with Israeli police and the IDF on vehicle recovery operations within Israel ¹⁹. The confirmed partnership covers Fiat Strada vehicles in South America exclusively; no public evidence has been identified of this arrangement extending to Jeep-branded vehicles ¹⁵.

Israel Innovation Authority MoU - Framework Procurement Channel

FCA Italy S.p.A. (a wholly-owned Stellantis subsidiary) signed a framework Memorandum of Understanding with the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) on 7 April 2021 ²⁰²¹²². The MoU operates within the IIA’s R&D Pilot Collaboration with Multinational Corporations Programme, whose previous participants have included Intel, Audi, Renault, IBM, and Philips ²⁰. Focus areas named at signing include driving assistance, cybersecurity, and Industry 4.0 ²⁰. Prior to the MoU’s signature, Stellantis representatives stated that the company had already conducted confidential proofs-of-concept with Israeli startups and had scouted more than 30 Israeli startups over more than one year ²⁰. The specific Israeli startups identified or engaged under the MoU remain confidential per public sources ²⁰²³. No public announcement of the MoU’s suspension or termination following October 2023 has been identified ²⁰.

Karamba Security - Industry-Level Relationship

Karamba Security (Hod Hasharon, Israel; founded 2016) has advisory board members and executives with IDF intelligence unit backgrounds: Dani Harari, a former head of Israeli Unit 8200, serves on the advisory board, and Guy Sagy, a 25-year Unit 8200 cyber architect, was appointed CTO ²⁴. Karamba co-founder Assaf Harel and Stellantis CISO Bill Mazzara jointly presented guidance on ISO/SAE 21434 electric vehicle cybersecurity compliance, evidencing an industry-level working relationship ²⁵. No confirmed formal vendor contract or supply agreement between Stellantis/Jeep and Karamba Security has been identified in public sources ²⁵²⁴.

Non-Israeli Strategic Vendors

Stellantis announced a five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft in April 2026 for cloud infrastructure, AI, and cybersecurity, deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to approximately 20,000 employees and targeting a 60% reduction in datacenter footprint by 2029 ²⁶²⁷. Stellantis partnered with BlackBerry QNX and AWS for a virtual cockpit concept demonstrated at CES in January 2024 ²⁸. Stellantis expanded its collaboration with French AI company Mistral AI in October 2025 to accelerate enterprise-wide AI adoption across the group ²⁹.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

Facial Recognition & Biometric Access

Stellantis was granted a US patent on 1 July 2025 for a facial recognition vehicle access system applicable to Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and Chrysler vehicles, utilising cameras already installed for driver-assistance functions ³⁰. No production deployment announcement has been made, and no Israeli-origin biometric technology supplier is named in publicly available patent documentation relating to this system ³⁰.

In-Cabin Occupant Monitoring

Vayyar Imaging (Israeli, Yehud) supplies Stellantis with 4D radar technology for in-cabin occupant detection, covering child presence detection, seat belt monitoring, and occupant position tracking - constituting an active in-vehicle monitoring capability applicable across Stellantis vehicle lines including Jeep ⁹¹⁰¹². Stellantis Ventures holds a confirmed equity investment in Vayyar as of December 2023 ⁹¹⁰. Vayyar’s portfolio also encompasses homeland security screening applications marketed to government and security customers alongside its automotive division ¹².

Predictive Analytics, Workforce Surveillance & Social Media Monitoring

No public evidence identified of Stellantis or Jeep deploying Israeli-origin predictive policing software, sentiment analysis tools, social media monitoring platforms, or workforce surveillance systems. Palantir Foundry and AIP are confirmed as deployed within Stellantis for manufacturing, supply chain, and business analytics functions ³¹; no evidence has been identified that Israeli military-adjacent Palantir products (Gotham, GAIA) form part of the Stellantis enterprise deployment scope ³¹.

Retail & Dealership Surveillance

No public evidence identified of Stellantis or Jeep deploying Israeli-origin retail surveillance, customer analytics, or biometric identification systems in dealership environments.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Israeli Data Centres & Government Cloud

No public evidence identified of Stellantis operating, leasing, or co-locating data centre infrastructure within Israel. No public evidence identified of Stellantis participating in Project Nimbus or any Israeli government cloud or sovereign cloud initiative.

Connected Vehicle Data Architecture

Stellantis’s Mobilisights business unit, established in January 2023, manages data from more than 14 million connected vehicles across 14 brands including Jeep, and holds exclusive rights to licence vehicle data to third parties ³¹. Jeep and FCA Uconnect connected services collect vehicle and driving data, precise geolocation data, biometrics, and other sensitive personal information from vehicle occupants ³². Stellantis’s privacy documentation states that data may be stored, accessed, used, and disclosed outside the user’s jurisdiction, “including within the European Union, the United States of America or any other country where Stellantis’s Processors and sub-processors are located, or where their servers or cloud computing infrastructure may be hosted” ³². No Israeli data processors are identified by name in publicly available Stellantis or Jeep privacy documentation ³². Stellantis’s 2024 Annual Report records that Israel and Palestine were reclassified into the Enlarged Europe operating segment from January 2025 ³³.

Israeli Vendor Data Processing

Ituran (Israeli) operates backend technology infrastructure for the Connect Fiat telematics programme in South America; data processed by Ituran’s systems is subject to Israeli jurisdiction for those portions of Ituran’s operations physically located in Israel ¹⁵¹⁸. The scope of data processed under the Ituran arrangement is limited to Fiat Strada vehicles in South America as of February 2026, with no confirmed extension to Jeep-branded vehicles ¹⁵.

Cloud Migration

Stellantis is transitioning to Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud provider, targeting a 60% reduction in its datacenter footprint by 2029 as part of the April 2026 five-year Microsoft strategic partnership ²⁶²⁷.

Data Breach History

Stellantis disclosed a major data breach in September 2025 affecting customers’ personal data, involving approximately 18 million Salesforce records compromised by the ShinyHunters group and a subsequent ransomware attack by the Everest group resulting in approximately 1TB of FCA US customer data being exposed ³⁴. These breaches are unrelated to Israeli-nexus technology exposure but represent a material regulatory risk dimension for the Mobilisights connected-vehicle data architecture ³¹³⁴.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

Direct Military & Intelligence Contracts

No public evidence identified of direct contracts between Stellantis, Jeep, or any FCA-heritage subsidiary and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, the IDF, Shin Bet, Mossad, or any other Israeli intelligence or security body.

FCA–Israel Fuel Choices Initiative MoU (Pre-Stellantis, 2015)

A non-binding MoU was signed on 9 February 2015 between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Iveco, and Magneti Marelli on one side, and the Israel Fuel Choices Initiative - an initiative of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office - on the other, for co-operation on compressed natural gas vehicle technology ³⁵. This agreement predates the formation of Stellantis in January 2021 and no public announcement has been identified confirming its continuation under the Stellantis corporate structure ³⁵.

Indirect Defence Linkage via Palantir

Stellantis is a confirmed enterprise customer of Palantir Technologies, with Palantir Foundry deployed across all Stellantis brands and business functions and Palantir AIP added to the deployment in 2026 ³¹². Palantir’s January 2024 strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense covers its AIP, Gotham, Foundry, and GAIA platforms ⁷. Palantir’s CEO publicly stated that the company is “proud to support Israel in every way we can” ⁶. The UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 report A/HRC/59/23 finds that Palantir has provided automatic predictive policing technology, core defence infrastructure, and its AI Platform for real-time battlefield data integration and automated decision-making by Israeli forces ⁸. The Stellantis–Palantir contract was renewed and expanded in March 2026, after both the ICJ Advisory Opinion (July 2024) and the ICC arrest warrants (November 2024) ³⁴. No public evidence has been identified that Stellantis-derived data or analytics processed through Palantir Foundry are shared with or accessible to Israeli Ministry of Defense users of Palantir’s platforms.

Controlling Director with IDF/Intelligence Background

Daniel Ramot was appointed to the Stellantis Board of Directors as a non-executive director effective 15 April 2025 ³⁶³⁷. Ramot is an Israeli-American national born in Israel in 1975 ³⁸. He is a graduate of the IDF’s elite Talpiot programme, through which he met his Via Transportation co-founder Oren Shoval ³⁸. He served in the Israeli Air Force from 1996 to 2002, developing avionic systems for F-15 and F-16 combat aircraft ³⁶³⁸. Following his military service, Ramot co-founded Via Transportation, a global transit technology company operating in more than 35 countries; EXOR (the Agnelli family holding company and Stellantis’s largest controlling shareholder) is a long-standing investor in Via ³⁸. His nomination to the Stellantis board was proposed by EXOR in connection with this investment relationship ³⁷. No evidence has been identified of personal investments by Ramot in Israeli surveillance, cyber, or military-technology firms ³⁶³⁸.

Dual-Use Technology & Offensive Cyber

No public evidence identified of Stellantis or Jeep commercial technology being confirmed as deployed for Israeli military, intelligence, or law enforcement surveillance applications. No public evidence identified of Stellantis involvement in offensive cyber capabilities or weapons-technology supply chains.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

AI Provision to Israeli State Bodies

No public evidence identified of direct Stellantis or Jeep provision of AI or machine learning systems to any Israeli state, military, or security body.

FCA–Mobileye Autonomous Driving MoU (2017, Status Uncertain)

In August 2017, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced it would join BMW Group, Intel, and Mobileye in developing a scalable autonomous driving platform spanning Level 3 to Level 4/5 autonomy ³⁹. Mobileye is an Israeli company, acquired by Intel in 2017 and subsequently re-listed on NASDAQ in 2022 ³⁹. Following the FCA–PSA merger that created Stellantis in January 2021, Stellantis pivoted to developing proprietary in-house platforms including STLA Brain, STLA SmartCockpit, and STLA AutoDrive ⁴⁰. Available evidence indicates that Jeep Grand Cherokee L ADAS systems use Bosch and Aptiv components rather than Mobileye ³⁹. No confirmed production-level Mobileye supply relationship for any current Stellantis or Jeep vehicle line as of 2024–2026 has been identified.

Manufacturing AI & Automation

Stellantis deployed AI-enabled innovations across manufacturing facilities in September 2024, encompassing robotics, predictive maintenance, and workplace safety applications ⁴⁰. No Israeli-origin AI vendor is named in public Stellantis communications describing these manufacturing deployments ⁴⁰.

Enterprise AI Development Partners

Stellantis has partnered with Mistral AI (France) for enterprise AI adoption since at least October 2025 ²⁹, and with Microsoft for AI-integrated cloud services from April 2026 ²⁶. Palantir AIP was added to the Stellantis enterprise deployment in 2026 ³. No evidence has been identified that Stellantis AI models have been trained on or given access to data derived from Israeli or occupied-Palestinian-territory civilian surveillance systems.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Israeli R&D Facilities

No public evidence identified of Stellantis or Jeep operating R&D facilities, engineering offices, innovation laboratories, or technology accelerator programmes physically located within Israel.

Israel Innovation Authority MoU (2021)

FCA Italy S.p.A. signed a framework MoU with the Israel Innovation Authority on 7 April 2021, with the Italian Ambassador to Israel in attendance at the signing ceremony ²⁰²¹²². Signatories included IIA Chairman Dr. Ami Applebaum and Roberto Di Stefano (Stellantis e-Mobility), with Roberto Fedeli (FCA Research Center/CRF CEO) describing the MoU as formalising “current, fruitful relationships with the Israeli ecosystem” ²³. Priority technology domains covered include driving assistance, cybersecurity, and Industry 4.0 ²⁰. The agreement received contemporaneous coverage in the Times of Israel and Calcalist/CTech ⁴¹²³. Prior to the MoU’s signature, Stellantis had already engaged in confidential proofs-of-concept with Israeli startups and scouted more than 30 Israeli startups over more than one year ²⁰. The IIA’s equivalent programme has previously included Intel, Audi, Renault, IBM, and Philips as corporate partners ²⁰. The specific Israeli startups identified or engaged through the MoU remain confidential per public sources ²⁰²³.

Stellantis Ventures - Vayyar Imaging

Vayyar Imaging Ltd. (Yehud, Israel; founded 2011) is an equity investment of Stellantis Ventures, confirmed by Vayyar’s recognition in the investment category of the December 2023 Venture Awards ⁹¹⁰¹¹. Vayyar’s $108M Series E round (June 2022) was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies; Stellantis Ventures was not listed among participants in that specific round’s public announcement ¹³¹⁴. The timing of Stellantis Ventures’ initial entry into Vayyar and the specific round in which it participated are not disclosed in public Stellantis communications ⁹¹⁰.

Argus Cyber Security

Argus Cyber Security (Israel, subsequently acquired by Continental AG) is a documented supplier in the automotive cybersecurity industry ⁴². No confirmed commercial relationship between Stellantis/Jeep and Argus Cyber Security has been identified in public sources ⁴².

Israeli Distribution Network - Samelet

Samelet (formerly Mediterranean Car Agency, headquartered Petah Tikva) has served as the authorised importer and exclusive distributor for Jeep, Chrysler, Ram, and Dodge in Israel since 2016 ⁴³⁴⁴⁴⁵. Samelet operates a nationwide network of showrooms and service centres including presence in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and the Northern District ⁴³. A new CEO appointment at Samelet was reported by the Jerusalem Post in 2025, confirming continued management of Jeep alongside Fiat, Subaru, Ferrari, and Leapmotor brand operations ⁴⁵. No public evidence has been identified of Samelet operating authorised showrooms or service facilities specifically within Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The geographic location of Samelet’s Jerusalem showroom (documented address: Beit Lehem Road 146) relative to the pre-1967 Green Line - i.e., whether it is situated in West Jerusalem or occupied East Jerusalem - cannot be confirmed from publicly available address information ⁴³.

Palestinian Distribution - Palestine Automobile Company

The Palestine Automobile Company (PAC, owned by Arab Palestinian Investment Company/APIC) is the exclusive distributor for Stellantis brands - including Jeep, Chrysler, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Dodge, and Ram - in Palestinian-administered areas, operating branches in Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Beit Sahour, with authorised dealers in Hebron and Nablus ⁴⁶⁴⁷. The US Department of Commerce confirms Stellantis maintains exclusive dealers in the West Bank ⁴⁷. PAC operates in PA-controlled territory; no evidence has been identified of PAC operations within Israeli settlement zones ⁴⁶.

Patent & Intellectual Property

No public evidence identified of significant patent portfolios, licensing agreements, or joint R&D arrangements between Stellantis/Jeep and Israeli-domiciled research institutions, including the Technion, Hebrew University, or the Weizmann Institute.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

UN OHCHR Settlement Database

The UN OHCHR database of companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank (updated October 2025, encompassing 314 entities) does not list Stellantis, FCA, Jeep, or Chrysler ⁴⁸⁴⁹.

UN Special Rapporteur Report A/HRC/59/23 (Albanese, July 2025)

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories’ report “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” (July 2025) does not name Stellantis, Jeep, or FCA directly ⁵⁰⁸. The report does name Palantir Technologies, finding on reasonable grounds that Palantir provided automatic predictive policing technology, core defence infrastructure, and its AI Platform for real-time battlefield data integration and automated decision-making in Israeli military operations ⁸. As Stellantis is a confirmed Palantir enterprise customer for Foundry and AIP, this UN finding creates a documented indirect nexus between Stellantis’s enterprise technology supply chain and platforms found to have supported Israeli military operations ¹²⁸.

AFSC Investigate

AFSC Investigate’s profile of Palantir explicitly identifies Stellantis - as the parent company owning Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and other brands - as a high-profile Palantir enterprise client ². The AFSC profile documents Palantir’s January 2024 strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defence, executive support statements for Israeli military operations, and Palantir’s use for predictive targeting in Gaza ²⁶⁷.

OpenIntel Dossier

A third-party dossier on the Stellantis group published by OpenIntel (under the Maserati brand reference) records the Vayyar equity investment, the IIA MoU, and the Ituran and Samelet distributor relationships as elements relevant to an assessment of Stellantis’s Israeli ecosystem exposure ⁵¹. The dossier’s methodology and publication date are not specified in the publicly accessible page content ⁵¹.

Controlling Director Background - Daniel Ramot

Stellantis non-executive director Daniel Ramot - appointed effective 15 April 2025 - is a Talpiot programme graduate who served in the Israeli Air Force from 1996 to 2002, developing avionic systems for F-15 and F-16 combat aircraft ³⁶³⁸³⁷. His nomination was proposed by EXOR, Stellantis’s controlling shareholder, in connection with EXOR’s long-standing investment in Via Transportation, of which Ramot is CEO and co-founder ³⁸³⁷. No civil society organisation has been identified in publicly available reporting as specifically campaigning on Ramot’s board appointment as a point of concern ³⁶.

BDS Movement & Boycott Campaigns

No specific BDS Movement campaign targeting Jeep or Stellantis as a named priority corporate target has been identified across BDS Movement, USCPR, or Ethical Consumer listings. The BDS Movement’s updated Palantir Company Complicity Profile (February 2026) documents Palantir’s Israeli military ties and names Stellantis as an enterprise client but does not designate Stellantis or Jeep as an independent BDS campaign target ⁶.

Regulatory & Legal Actions

No regulatory inquiries, export control proceedings, sanctions investigations, or legal actions involving Stellantis or Jeep technology sales, services, or contracts with Israeli state entities have been identified in public sources.

Data Breach & Consumer Regulatory Record

Stellantis disclosed a major data breach in September 2025, confirming theft of customers’ personal data in incidents involving approximately 18 million Salesforce records compromised by the ShinyHunters group and a subsequent ransomware attack by the Everest group resulting in approximately 1TB of FCA US customer data being exposed ³⁴. These breaches are unrelated to Israeli-nexus technology exposure but represent a documented regulatory risk dimension for the Mobilisights connected-vehicle data operation ³¹³⁴.

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