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PayPal MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-07
Military Score 0.00 /10 B PayPal - BDS-1000 708
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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is a Delaware corporation whose June 2026 filing describes a global digital-payments platform. 1

PayPal’s Israel user agreement identifies PayPal Israel Payments Services Ltd., company number 516478872, as a payment-service provider licensed and regulated by the Israel Securities Authority for Israeli residents and businesses. 2

PayPal’s Israel migration notice states that the service provider for Israeli customers was to change from PayPal Pte. Ltd. to PayPal Israel Payment Services Limited, subject to licensing. 3

No public evidence identified of a PayPal contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum, SIBAT directory entry, or defence-exhibition listing involving the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Israel Police, Border Police, or another Israeli security body.

The reviewed materials describe civilian payment services and do not establish a defence-procurement function for the Israeli payment entity. 3, 2

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

PayPal’s Israeli user agreement describes services enabling users to send and receive payments and to use business accounts for commercial purposes. 2

No public evidence identified of PayPal manufacturing or marketing tactical, military-specification, defence-grade, or purpose-built kinetic products.

No public evidence identified of Israeli military end-user certificates or export licences concerning PayPal products.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified of PayPal equipment or machinery being used in settlement construction, demolitions, the separation barrier, military installations, or other occupied-territory infrastructure.

The reviewed SEC subsidiary exhibit is not a complete group legal-entity register and cannot establish the presence or absence of smaller Israeli entities, agents, branches, local licences, or settlement-area activity. 4

No public evidence identified in the reviewed SEC filings and PayPal Israel legal materials locating a PayPal entity, branch, franchisee, or office in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights, or another occupied territory.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of PayPal supplying components, subsystems, specialist manufacturing, joint development, co-production, or licensed production to Elbit, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence prime.

The available evidence concerns payment services and charitable-payment channels rather than production or supply-chain integration with defence manufacturers. 2, 5, 6

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

A PayPal-hosted donation page identifies the recipient as “Thank Israeli Soldiers,” states that donations support IDF soldiers during and after service, and offers debit-card, credit-card, and recurring donations. 5

The associated recipient donation page directs donors outside the United States or Israel to donate through PayPal and identifies Thank Israeli Soldiers as the registered name of Fund for Israel’s Tomorrow, a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization with EIN 35-2374190. 7

These pages verify a PayPal-hosted or PayPal-directed donation channel for the named nongovernmental fundraiser, but they do not establish an IDF or Ministry of Defense contract. 5, 7

The cited donation pages do not disclose transaction amounts, dates, merchant-acquiring terms, PayPal fees, disbursement details, or the ultimate use of funds. 5, 7

No public evidence identified of PayPal providing contracted catering, transport, fuel, waste, facilities maintenance, telecommunications, freight, port handling, or other base services to Israeli military or security installations.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified of PayPal manufacturing, integrating, maintaining, or supplying lethal platforms, munitions, precursors, missile-defence systems, targeting or fire-control software, guidance electronics, radar, propulsion, or warhead components for Israeli forces.

The reviewed PayPal legal materials characterize the relevant service as a payments platform rather than a weapons-system or strategic-platform product. 2

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of governmental export-licence decisions, arms-embargo or sanctions enforcement, or litigation concerning a PayPal defence-supply relationship with Israeli military or security end users.

PayPal’s Israeli agreement states that PayPal Israel Payments Services Ltd. is licensed and regulated by the Israel Securities Authority as a payment-service provider. 2

The reviewed record does not independently establish the legal ownership chain between PayPal Pte. Ltd. and company number 516478872. 3, 2

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

PayPal Charitable Giving Fund’s 2024 Form 990 records a $429,496 cash grant, described as “general support,” to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, EIN 13-3156445. 6

The same filing identifies PayPal Inc. as the fund’s sole member, states that PayPal Inc.’s member representative appoints its directors, and states that PayPal Inc. donates personnel and services under an agreement. 6

The filing states that the fund maintains donor-advised funds, while the disclosed Friends of the Israel Defense Forces grant does not identify an underlying donor, donor recommendation, grant date, or the recipient’s subsequent use of the specific funds. 6

Accordingly, the filing verifies a PayPal Charitable Giving Fund grant and does not establish a direct PayPal Holdings procurement payment, a traceable donation by PayPal Holdings itself, or a particular end use. 6

PayPal announced that Enrique Lores became President and CEO effective 1 March 2026 and that David W. Dorman became Independent Board Chair effective 3 February 2026. 8

PayPal’s 2026 proxy reports that Vanguard had previously reported 10.05% beneficial ownership before a March 2026 amendment reported no PayPal beneficial ownership after an internal reorganization, while BlackRock was reported at 8.06%. 9

The supplied document-scoped scan recorded no PayPal mention in the specified OHCHR settlement-database materials, UN A/HRC/59/23, PAX’s 2024 report, Al-Haq’s 2024 report, and other enumerated library reports. 1, 9

That document-scoped result does not establish absence from all UN, NGO, procurement, litigation, or broader civil-society records. 1, 9

No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of a published NGO or academic investigation establishing PayPal as a military, security, or dual-use supplier to the Israeli state, or of a defence-activity-specific divestment decision, boycott campaign, or PayPal policy response.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633917/000163391726000082/pypl-20260630.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. https://www.paypal.com/il/legalhub/paypal/useragreement-full?locale.x=en_IL ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  3. https://www.paypal.com/il/cshelp/article/israel-legal-entity-migration---frequently-asked-questions-faqs - help1373?locale.x=en_IL ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633917/000163391726000024/exhibit2101subsidiarylistf.htm ↩

  5. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=HB9TZG9QB842C ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/web/PPGF/US/2024_PPGF_Form_IRS_990_for_public_inspection.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. https://tis.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/tis/donation.jsp?campaign=193 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633917/000119312526035860/d68718dex991.htm ↩

  9. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633917/000119312526145721/d59508ddef14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3