Oracle

Key Findings

• Political: CEO Safra Catz publicly stated “For us, it’s the U.S., Israel, and then the rest of the world. We don’t hide it,” directed “Oracle stands with Israel” onto company screens in 180+ countries after October 7, 2023, and told employees who disagreed with the company’s “mission to support the State of Israel” that Oracle might not be the right company for them.^{1, 2}
• Digital/Military: Oracle Israel is the sole-supplier database backbone for Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority “Rotem-Reut” border-control and “Matash” Palestinian worker-permit systems, and holds continuous multi-decade Ministry of Defense, Air Force, and Military Intelligence Directorate contracts, including the classified “Project Menta” and a September 2024 cloud-hosting partnership with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems for AI targeting/geospatial systems IMILITE and FIRE WEAVER.^{3, 4}
• Economic: Oracle built and operates a 50-meter underground, missile-hardened cloud data center in Jerusalem (~NIS 1.2 billion / reported $319M), donated seven tons of military equipment to IDF units operating in Gaza in January 2024, and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison has personally donated $26M+ to Friends of the IDF since 2014.^{5, 6, 7}
• Not found: No public evidence identified of Oracle manufacturing weapons, munitions, or platforms; Oracle was disqualified from and lost the Project Nimbus tender; and no evidence confirms Oracle appears on the UN OHCHR settlement-business list.^{8, 9}

Target Profile

Key Facts:

• Underground Jerusalem cloud data center (~14,000 sqm, 50m below ground, ~NIS 1.2 billion / ~$319M reported cost), opened 2021^{5, 3}
• Sole-supplier position for Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority border/permit database systems since 2006³
• Disqualified from and lost the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus government cloud tender (awarded to AWS/Google)^{8, 10}
• September 2024 cloud-hosting partnership with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems for AI defense systems^{11, 4}

Executive Summary

Oracle Corporation is a U.S.-headquartered, Delaware-incorporated enterprise software and cloud company whose Israeli-nexus rests overwhelmingly on the multi-decade activities of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Oracle Israel Ltd., combined with unusually explicit public alignment by top executives. Unlike physical-goods or extractive companies, Oracle’s connection to Israel/Palestine is mediated almost entirely through database licensing, cloud hosting, and enterprise IT services sold to Israeli state institutions, rather than through weapons manufacture, land use, or agricultural sourcing.

The strongest documented vectors are digital and political. Oracle Israel has held continuous Ministry of Defense, Israeli Air Force, and Military Intelligence Directorate contracts since at least 2001, including a NIS 140 million licensing renewal (2015), a classified multi-year “Project Menta” data-engineering program with the Air Force (2021–), and a procurement-automation partnership with IDF Unit 81.^{8, 12, 2} In September 2024, Oracle and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced a partnership hosting Rafael’s IMILITE geospatial-intelligence and FIRE WEAVER “sensor-to-shooter” systems on Oracle cloud infrastructure - the first cloud provider to host these combat systems.^{11, 4, 13} Oracle databases also constitute the sole-supplier backbone of Israel’s population-control infrastructure: the “Rotem-Reut” border system (in use since 2006, deployed at West Bank/East Jerusalem checkpoints and Allenby Bridge) and the “Matash” Palestinian labor-permit system.^{3, 14} Oracle Israel additionally provides servers to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank supporting a construction-monitoring system tied to settlement-adjacent permitting.^{8, 14}

Politically, Oracle’s leadership has taken an unusually overt public stance. CEO Safra Catz - Israeli-American by birth - stated “For us, it’s the U.S., Israel, and then the rest of the world. We don’t hide it,” directed “Oracle stands with Israel” messaging onto company screens in 180+ countries after October 7, 2023, and reportedly told employees who disagreed with Oracle’s “mission to support the State of Israel” that they might not belong at the company.^{1, 2, 15} Internal reporting documents a 68-employee open letter describing fear of retribution, removal of Medical Aid for Palestinians and UNRWA from Oracle’s donation-matching platform, and termination of an employee over a Palestinian-flag Slack post.² Executive Chairman Larry Ellison has personally donated over $26 million to Friends of the IDF since 2014 and was a named donor to the Elad-linked City of David excavation in Silwan, East Jerusalem.^{7, 16}

What is not supported by evidence is equally important. Oracle does not manufacture weapons, munitions, or military platforms; it holds no identified role in Iron Dome, Arrow, or F-35 supply chains.¹⁷ Oracle competed for but lost Israel’s Project Nimbus government cloud tender after being disqualified on security grounds, and its subsequent court challenge failed.^{8, 10, 18} No public evidence identified confirms Oracle appears on the UN OHCHR settlement-business database, and no current Oracle-Elbit supply relationship is confirmed in post-2020 sources.⁹ No evidence was found of Oracle providing physical construction, logistics, or base-sustainment services to Israeli military facilities beyond software and server hosting.

Weighing sustained, high-directness digital/defense infrastructure contracts against explicit, sustained political alignment and the absence of a weapons-manufacturing or settlement-construction nexus, the audits support a BRS of 865 (Tier A, Extreme), driven by the Political ceiling score of 9.00 and reinforced by a Digital score of 8.00.

Timeline of Relevant Events

Corporate Overview

Oracle Corporation is a Delaware-incorporated, NYSE-listed multinational headquartered in Austin, Texas, founded in 1977. It is not an Israeli-founded company and its board/governance is disclosed through standard SEC DEF 14A filings.²⁶ Oracle Israel Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary opened in the 1990s, is headquartered in Petah Tikva with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Ra’anana, and R&D sites in Petah Tikva and Beersheba, employing approximately 380–400 people across its two R&D sites as of 2023–2024 reporting.^{8, 22, 23} Oracle Israel operates as a standard-form foreign operating subsidiary rather than a dual-headquarters structure.

Oracle’s Israel-based engineering capacity was substantially built through acquisition: Ravello Systems (2016, ~$500M, cloud virtualization, ~400-person team folded into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure engineering) and Crosswise (2016, ~$50M, big-data/ad-tech, founded by two Unit 8200 alumni).^{16, 27, 28, 5} No public evidence identified of a formal Oracle R&D partnership with the Technion, Hebrew University, or Weizmann Institute. No public evidence identified of Israeli beneficial ownership or control of Oracle Corporation itself; Ellison is reported (via secondary, not independently re-verified sources) to hold ~40% of shares.

Oracle is distinct from Panaya Ltd., an Infosys (India) subsidiary with no ownership tie to Oracle, despite product-category adjacency - a distinction the audits explicitly flag to avoid wrong-entity attribution.

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

Oracle Israel supplies software, database, and cloud infrastructure directly to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Air Force, Ground Forces, and Israel Police, spanning a 2001 NIS 100M+ ERP tender, a 2012 Exadata deployment for the Air Force (~NIS 10M), and a 2015 NIS 140M licensing renewal.⁸ The IDF Military Procurement Directorate (Unit 81) ran a three-year Oracle-enabled procurement program completed in 2022, and Oracle partnered with the Israeli Air Force on the classified “Project Menta” data-engineering project from 2021.¹² Oracle formed a September 2024 partnership with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to host Rafael’s IMILITE imagery/geospatial-intelligence and FIRE WEAVER sensor-to-shooter systems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including Oracle Government Cloud, National Security Regions, and Roving Edge Infrastructure.¹¹ Oracle also provides servers to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank for a construction-monitoring system, located in a “military environment.”⁸

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Oracle competed for but did not win Israel’s Project Nimbus cloud tender (NIS 4 billion/$1.2 billion), which was awarded to AWS and Google.²⁹ Oracle does not manufacture or supply heavy machinery, construction equipment, or weapons platforms.⁸ No public evidence identified of Oracle components in Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, F-35, Merkava, or Sa’ar-class systems. No public evidence identified of a current Oracle-Elbit supply relationship in post-2020 sources, nor of a direct supply relationship with Israel Aerospace Industries. No public evidence identified of BIS export license applications for Israeli military end-users, and SEC 8-K/10-K filings contain no Israel-specific risk disclosures tied to the ICJ opinion or ICC arrest warrants.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Israeli Ministry of Defense; Israeli Air Force; Israel Police; IDF Unit 81; Rafael Advanced Defense Systems; Israeli Civil Administration (West Bank). Sourced via Who Profits, BDS Movement complicity profile, Oracle press releases, and COAT reporting (the latter’s Elbit/Tadiran claim unconfirmed post-2020).^{8, 11, 7, 12}

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Oracle operates a 50-meter underground cloud-region data center in Har Hotzvim, Jerusalem - built with Israeli integrator Bynet Data Communications, overseen by Israel’s national cyber administration and the Shin Bet, engineered to withstand a car bomb - the first hyperscaler in-country cloud region in Israel (2021).^{8, 10} Oracle software is the sole-supplier backbone of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority “Rotem-Reut” border-control system (Oracle 11.2 database, since 2006, 25 crossing points including West Bank/East Jerusalem checkpoints and Allenby Bridge) and the “Matash” Palestinian worker-permit system, with over 380 Oracle licenses held by the Authority as of November 2023.³ Internal Slack disclosures reported by The Intercept describe “Project Menta” and the Unit 81 procurement program, plus “Words of Iron,” a pro-Israel social-media content initiative built with Israeli government ministries from November 2023.² The September 2024 Rafael partnership hosts AI-based combat systems IMILITE and FIRE WEAVER.^{4, 13} Oracle and Palantir announced an April 2024 partnership spanning defense/intelligence cloud regions; Palantir’s own Israel-facing deployments are documented in press coverage, but Oracle’s direct role in those deployments is unconfirmed and treated as an unconfirmed adjacency.^{21, 23}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Oracle was rejected from Project Nimbus after disqualification over information-security shortcomings (lack of VDI support, insufficient AI/ML capability, inadequate encryption) and lost its subsequent Jerusalem District Court challenge.^{18, 11}. No public evidence identified of Oracle deploying Israeli-origin facial-recognition, biometric, or predictive-policing tools in its own retail or enterprise products. No public evidence identified of Oracle developing offensive cyber capabilities or zero-day exploits for Israeli state actors. No public evidence identified that Oracle’s AI models were trained on surveillance-derived datasets from Israel/OPT. Oracle’s presence on the UN OHCHR settlement-business database could not be confirmed, and the UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 “economy of genocide” report discusses Nimbus, Palantir, and Google/Amazon without naming Oracle in reviewed sections.^{25, 20}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Israel Population and Immigration Authority; Israeli Air Force; IDF Unit 81; Rafael Advanced Defense Systems; Palantir Technologies; Bynet Data Communications; Shin Bet. Sourced via DataCenterDynamics, Times of Israel, Calcalist, Haaretz, The Intercept, and Oracle press releases.^{8, 10, 3, 2, 4}

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Oracle Israel Ltd. functions as a direct technology supplier to Israeli state institutions rather than a physical-goods supply-chain participant, with continuing, multi-year contracts across IMOD, Air Force, Military Intelligence, and the Population and Immigration Authority through 2024–2025.^{8, 10} Oracle built its underground Jerusalem data center (~NIS 1.2 billion, reported variably as $319M or $1.2bn - a discrepancy this audit flags rather than resolves) and Catz affirmed commitment to a second, deeper facility during a January 2024 wartime visit.^{8, 7, 12, 6} Oracle acquired Ravello Systems ($500M) and Crosswise ($50M) in 2016, both Israeli firms now integrated into Oracle’s Israel R&D structure; Crosswise was founded by two IDF Unit 8200 alumni.^{9, 30, 4}. Larry Ellison has donated $16.6M to FIDF (2017, reported as FIDF’s largest single gift) and $500,000 to fortify a Sderot community center (2007).^{31, 32, 33}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Later 2024 reporting indicated Oracle shelved the larger 30-megawatt version of its second Israeli data center, citing wartime risk and higher costs relative to the UAE - though Oracle Israel’s country leader publicly disputed this, stating “our business in Israel remains strong.”²⁴ No public evidence identified linking Oracle to Israeli agricultural exporters (Mehadrin, Hadiklaim, etc.) or any settlement-origin physical product, consistent with its software/cloud business model. No public evidence identified of Oracle underwriting Israeli sovereign debt or Israel Bonds, nor of disclosed portfolio positions in Israeli arms manufacturers. No public evidence identified confirming Oracle Israel holds Preferred Technology Enterprise tax-designation status. A claim that Jeff Yass is an Oracle “major shareholder” is treated as unverified and excluded from confirmed findings.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Ravello Systems; Crosswise; Israel Population and Immigration Authority; Friends of the IDF; Larry Ellison; Safra Catz. Sourced via Who Profits, Globes, Calcalist, Times of Israel, and FIDF gala reporting.^{8, 7, 12, 9, 4, 31}

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

Oracle’s public political posture toward Israel is unusually explicit and sustained at the executive level. CEO Safra Catz directed “Oracle stands with Israel” onto company screens in 180+ countries after October 7, 2023, paired with a $1M Magen David Adom donation and uncapped employee-matching campaign.^{20, 1} Catz stated “For us, it’s the U.S., Israel, and then the rest of the world. We don’t hide it,” and told employees disagreeing with Oracle’s “mission to support the State of Israel” that they might not be at the right company; she separately referred to pro-Palestinian rights groups as “brainwashing organizations.”^{2, 15, 1} Head of Sales Shmulik Hauser stated “supporting Israel is in our DNA - even if it costs us clients.”¹ Internally, 68 employees signed a January 2024 open letter describing fear of retribution; Medical Aid for Palestinians and UNRWA were removed from Oracle’s donation-matching platform without reinstatement; and an employee was terminated over a Palestinian-flag Slack post.^{2, 34} Oracle personnel built “Words of Iron” with Israeli government ministries to elevate pro-Israel social-media content, and co-ran a February 2024 hackathon on “rehabilitating Israeli settlements near Gaza.”² Ellison was a named donor to the Elad-linked City of David excavation beneath Silwan, East Jerusalem, whose parent organization is described as a settler group.¹⁶ Oracle spent $11.6M on federal lobbying in 2025; Catz joined a June 2024 Capitol Hill meeting with senators advocating continued weapons shipments to Israel.^{32, 22, 23}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Oracle’s 2022 Ukraine statement used general “peace/against illegal war” language and included operational suspension in Russia/Belarus - no public evidence identified of an equivalent Oracle statement specifically addressing Palestinian civilian harm or ceasefire calls. No public evidence identified of a formal Oracle sponsorship of a state “Brand Israel” PR campaign, distinct from the informal “Words of Iron” cooperation. No public evidence identified tying Oracle’s federal lobbying disclosures specifically to Israel-policy or anti-BDS legislation. No public evidence identified confirming Oracle Corporation itself is named on the UN OHCHR settlement-business list. The FIDF and City of David donations are documented as personal Ellison/family contributions rather than Oracle corporate-treasury spending.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Safra Catz; Larry Ellison; Leon Panetta; Elad/City of David Foundation; Friends of the IDF; Israeli government ministries (Words of Iron). Sourced via The Intercept, Responsible Statecraft, BDS Movement, Who Profits, and Oracle corporate statements.^{2, 14, 16, 20, 1}

Complicity Index Score (V4)

• V_MAX: 9.00 Avg_OTHERS: 6.90
• BRS Score: 865 Tier: A (Extreme)

V_MAX is driven by Political (9.00), reflecting sustained, high-magnitude, high-directness executive-level political alignment - explicit corporate statements, internal suppression of dissent, and Ellison’s settlement-linked and FIDF philanthropy - which the audits document more comprehensively and with less ambiguity than any other domain. Digital (8.00) closely reinforces this through Oracle’s sole-supplier position in Israeli population-control and border infrastructure and its hosted defense AI systems. The method applies a scale-free Impact (activity type) × magnitude/proximity model, drawn exclusively from the four vetted domain audits, yielding a Tier A (Extreme) classification.

Methodology Note

• Every claim in this dossier is drawn exclusively from the four domain audits (Military, Digital, Economic, Political); where those audits state “No public evidence identified,” this dossier carries that finding forward rather than inferring involvement.
• Scoring is scale-free: Impact (I) reflects the type of activity (e.g., political messaging vs. direct military contracting), Magnitude (M) reflects the scale of the activity, and Proximity (P) reflects directness of the nexus to Israeli state/military/settlement institutions.
• Temporal rule: divested, exited, or disputed/shelved operations (e.g., the reported shelving of Oracle’s second Israeli data center) are noted with their own caveats and not treated as ongoing unless the audits confirm continuation.
• Entity attribution follows a no-transitive-guilt standard: claims about affiliated but distinct entities (e.g., Panaya/Infosys, unconfirmed Elbit ties, unverified Jeff Yass shareholding) are excluded or explicitly flagged as unverified rather than folded into Oracle’s record.
• Settlement-adjacent operations (Civil Administration servers, Matash permit system) are treated as dual-relevant to Economic and Political where the underlying audits document both an economic supply relationship and a political/administrative dimension.
• “No public evidence identified” is used verbatim wherever the underlying audits found nothing on a given sub-question, preserving the evidentiary record rather than implying absence of activity beyond what was checked.