Rolls-Royce

Key Findings

Military: U.S. Foreign Military Sales records document Rolls-Royce Solutions America contracts and modifications for Israeli armoured-vehicle powerpacks, including a February 2026 Merkava power-pack-kit award scheduled through 2032.¹

Economic: Rolls-Royce maintains a wholly owned Netanya sales-and-service entity and a 50%-owned compressor-blade manufacturing joint venture at Tefen Industrial Park; the latter is described as serving civil-aerospace engine programmes.²

Political: Rolls-Royce Power Systems’ documented response to UN experts’ 2024 call to halt arms transfers was that it complies with applicable export-control and sanctions law; it did not announce an Israel-specific halt or termination.³

Not found: No public evidence identified of Israeli digital, cyber, AI, surveillance, Project Nimbus, settlement-geography, or Israeli-defence-prime supply relationships.⁴

Target Profile

Field	Detail
Company Name	Rolls-Royce Holdings plc
Jurisdiction	United Kingdom.⁵
Headquarters	United Kingdom.⁵
Sector	Aerospace, defence, and power systems.⁶
Ownership	Widely held UK-listed company. The UK Government holds a special share for national-security purposes; no Israeli controlling shareholder was identified in the audits.⁷
Key Executives / Governance	Dame Anita Frew (Chair); Tufan Erginbilgic (Chief Executive); Dr Jörg Stratmann (Chief Executive, Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG / President, Power Systems).⁸
Israeli-Nexus Summary	Documented nexus runs through Israel-based entities and US FMS-funded propulsion-powerpack supply for Israeli armoured platforms, not Israeli ownership, domicile, settlement operations, or digital services.^{1, 2, 4}

Key Facts:

Rolls-Royce Solutions Israel Ltd. is a wholly owned sales-and-service entity in Netanya.⁹
Techjet Aerofoils Ltd. is a 50%-owned joint venture at Tefen Industrial Park producing aerofoil and compressor-blade components for civil-aerospace engine families.²
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a separate BMW-owned company and is not the target of this dossier.¹⁰

Executive Summary

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a UK aerospace, defence, and power-systems group. Its documented Israel/Palestine nexus is principally a defence-propulsion and industrial-presence nexus. Through Rolls-Royce Solutions America, the group has been named in US Foreign Military Sales channels for Israeli armoured-vehicle powerpacks. The strongest current record is the February 2026 $73.5 million FMS-funded award for Merkava power-pack-less-transmission kits, containers, and contractor engineering technical services, with stated performance through 31 December 2032.¹ Earlier records include a September 2021 Namer powerpack award and two 2024 modifications for platform-unspecified armoured-personnel-carrier powerpacks.¹¹

Two 2025–26 DSCA notifications name Rolls-Royce Solutions America as principal contractor for possible Eitan and Namer powerpack sales. These notices are proposals, not evidence of a completed award, delivery, or active performance of the proposed increments. The April 2025 Eitan notification describes a possible $180 million increment alongside a previously implemented $85.5 million case, while the January 2026 Namer notification describes a possible $740 million case.¹² The audits found no public evidence of an Eitan-named award implementing the 2025 notification, or of a later Namer-named award, delivery, or sustainment contract after the 2021 award.^{11, 12}

The company also has a documented Israeli corporate footprint: Rolls-Royce Solutions Israel Ltd. in Netanya and a 50% holding in Techjet Aerofoils Ltd. at Tefen. Techjet is described as a Tier One supplier for Rolls-Royce civil-aerospace engines and produces components for Trent, BR700, RB211, and V2500 programmes. No public evidence identified of direct Israeli military or IDF customers at the Techjet facility, of operations in West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights settlements, or of settlement-specific sales, resellers, franchisees, or licensees.²

The audits identify no digital-domain Israel nexus: no public evidence of Project Nimbus participation, Israeli cloud infrastructure, Israeli surveillance or biometric systems, Palantir Foundry, offensive cyber tools, AI targeting systems, or digital services to Israeli state or military bodies.⁴ Likewise, no public evidence identified of a separately published IMOD/IDF tender naming Rolls-Royce, supply agreements with Israeli defence primes, or direct Israeli-government contracts outside the documented US FMS channel.¹³

On the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 methodology, Rolls-Royce receives a BRS of 620 and Tier B (Severe Complicity). This result is driven chiefly by the direct, documented armoured-platform powerpack supply record and continuing economic presence, while preserving the audits’ distinctions between confirmed awards, proposed sales, historic reporting, and matters for which no public evidence was identified.

Timeline of Relevant Events

Date	Event
September 1999	Rolls-Royce established Techjet Aerofoils Ltd., a joint venture at Tefen Industrial Park; Rolls-Royce’s current holding is reported as 50%.²
February 2019	A State Department-approved FMS case covered Namer powerpack systems; it pre-dates the July 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion.¹⁴
27 September 2021	The US Department of Defense announced a $193,999,241 FMS-funded contract to Rolls-Royce Solutions America for Namer armoured-personnel-carrier powerpacks less transmissions.¹¹
12 July 2024	Rolls-Royce Power Systems responded to a UN-experts call by stating that it supports NATO and allies with defence power solutions and complies with applicable export-control and sanctions law.³
28 March 2024	Rolls-Royce Solutions America received an $8,449,000 modification for armoured-personnel-carrier powerpacks, funded by FY2024 FMS funds for Israel.¹¹
5 July 2024	Rolls-Royce Solutions America received a further $37,181,554 FMS-funded modification for armoured-personnel-carrier powerpacks.¹¹
April 2025	DSCA notified Congress of a possible $180 million Eitan powerpack sale naming Rolls-Royce Solutions America; notification does not establish an award or delivery.¹²
30 January 2026	DSCA notified Congress of a possible $740 million Namer powerpack and support package naming Rolls-Royce Solutions America; notification does not establish an award or delivery.¹²
18 February 2026	Rolls-Royce Solutions America received a $73,528,916 FMS-funded contract for Merkava power-pack-less-transmission kits, containers, and engineering technical services, with performance stated through 31 December 2032.¹

Corporate Overview

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is the group parent, with Rolls-Royce plc as its principal trading subsidiary. Its reported divisions span Civil Aerospace, Defence, and Power Systems.⁶ Rolls-Royce Solutions America Inc. is the group entity named in the documented US FMS procurement and possible-sale records.^{1, 11, 12}

The group’s annual-report subsidiary schedule identifies Rolls-Royce Solutions Israel Limited and Rolls-Royce Solutions America Inc. as wholly held entities. The schedule supports group attribution, but does not itself assign either entity a specific Israel-related contract or establish that the Netanya entity intermediated the Namer, Eitan, Merkava, or Sa’ar 6 channels.^{6, 9}

Rolls-Royce Solutions Israel Ltd. is located in Netanya and is presented by the mtu brand as a sales-and-service contact offering lifecycle support. Its general product navigation includes marine and land-defence categories, but the reviewed material does not identify an Israeli state customer, tender, end user, or defence supply by that entity.⁹ Techjet Aerofoils is a distinct 50%-owned manufacturing joint venture at Tefen; it is not documented as a settlement operation or an Israeli defence production facility.²

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

The documented military mechanism is supply of configured propulsion powerpacks and associated support to Israel through US FMS channels. The September 2021 DoD award was for Namer APC powerpacks less transmissions. In 2024, two further modifications, totalling $45,630,554 in stated obligations, covered armoured-personnel-carrier powerpacks, although the notices did not identify the platform or disclose the base award and full cumulative value.¹¹

The February 2026 record is a confirmed award: $73,528,916 in FY2026 FMS funds for Israel for Merkava full and lite power-pack-less-transmission kits, metal containers, and contractor engineering technical services. The notice states performance through 31 December 2032. Its separate reported cumulative face value should not be treated as verified deliveries, payments, or the value of the February action alone, because the public notice does not explain the figure’s composition.¹

The audit also records two possible FMS notifications: an April 2025 Eitan package and a January 2026 Namer package. Both contain support elements such as engineering, logistics, tools, documentation, and technical assistance. Neither notification alone establishes that the proposed sale was awarded, concluded, delivered, or being performed.¹²

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Rolls-Royce’s strongest documented defence is that Rolls-Royce Power Systems supports NATO and allied defence users and complies with applicable export-control and sanctions law.³ The company did not announce an Israel-specific halt, termination, end-use-monitoring commitment, or policy change in that response.³

The record must not be overstated. The 2025 Eitan and 2026 Namer items are possible-sale notifications, not awards or delivery records.¹² No public evidence identified of a later Namer-named award, modification, delivery, or sustainment contract after the 2021 Namer award; of an Eitan-named award implementing the April 2025 notification; or of completed delivery under the February 2026 Merkava award.^{11, 12}

No public evidence identified of Rolls-Royce supplying ammunition, explosives, missiles, warheads, radar, fire-control systems, weapons-integration software, base services, military cargo forwarding, or facilities services in Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory.¹³ Nor was public evidence identified of an IMOD/IDF tender, Israeli security-service contract, Israeli-defence-prime agreement, joint development, licensed manufacture, or co-production involving Rolls-Royce.¹³

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Rolls-Royce Solutions America Inc.: named contractor/principal contractor in the Namer, Eitan, and Merkava FMS record.^{1, 11, 12}
Rolls-Royce Power Systems / MTU: identified in the audit as the power-systems business associated with MTU-branded land and marine propulsion products.^{6, 9}
Israeli Ministry of Defence / FMS channel: end-user relationship documented through US-administered FMS, rather than a separately published direct Israeli tender award.^{1, 11}
Rolls-Royce Solutions Israel Ltd.: Netanya group entity; no public evidence identified that it intermediated the documented military supply channels.⁹

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Rolls-Royce uses enterprise digital systems including Microsoft Azure, Azure Databricks, Power BI, Azure IoT and Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing. Its IntelligentEngine and Engine Health Management systems use AI/ML for predictive maintenance in commercial aviation.¹⁵ These are documented as enterprise and commercial-engine analytics systems, not Israeli military digital services.

Rolls-Royce Solutions Israel Ltd. lists a “Digital Solutions” service line alongside marine, power-generation, and defence support. The public material reviewed did not detail its scope, staffing, customer base, or any Israeli state or military deployment.⁹

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of Rolls-Royce participation in Project Nimbus or comparable Israeli-government cloud programmes; data-centre operation, leasing, or colocation in Israel; data-sovereignty services for Israeli authorities; Israeli-origin surveillance, biometric, predictive-policing, or workforce-monitoring products; or a Rolls-Royce/Palantir Foundry relationship.⁴

No public evidence identified that Rolls-Royce’s AI/ML systems were supplied to, trained on data from, or otherwise used by Israeli state, military, intelligence, or security bodies. No public evidence identified of target-identification, kill-chain, autonomous-weapons, offensive-cyber, exploit, or zero-day capability supplied to Israeli actors.⁴

The FMS relationships concern propulsion hardware. The audits identify no digital, cyber, or AI service component within those contracts.⁴

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Microsoft: documented enterprise-cloud and manufacturing-data platform provider to Rolls-Royce; no Israel-specific nexus identified.¹⁵
Tata Consultancy Services: provider of the Connected Universe IoT/digital-transformation platform; no Israel-specific nexus identified.¹⁶
Rolls-Royce Solutions Israel Ltd.: local sales-and-service entity with an unspecified Digital Solutions line; no identified Israeli state or military digital customer.⁹

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

The economic nexus consists of an Israeli operating presence and revenue-generating industrial and defence relationships. Rolls-Royce Solutions Israel Ltd. is a wholly owned Netanya sales-and-support entity. Techjet Aerofoils Ltd. is a 50%-owned joint venture at Tefen Industrial Park that reports more than 600 employees and supplies blade forgings and machined components for Rolls-Royce civil-aerospace engine programmes.^{2, 9}

Who Profits reports that Rolls-Royce’s Israel-sourced revenue exceeded $97 million in 2024. This is an external estimate, not a Rolls-Royce annual-report geographic line item; no public evidence identified of primary-source annual-report confirmation of the stated figure.¹⁷

FMS supply is also an economic channel: Rolls-Royce Solutions America is the contractor of record in the confirmed and proposed US-government cases described above. The audit attributes this relationship to the company’s industrial and defence supply chain, not to consumer-goods, food, retail, or Israeli sovereign-finance activity.^{1, 11, 12}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Techjet’s stated customer focus is civil aerospace. No public evidence identified of direct Israeli military or IDF customer relationships at the Techjet facility.² Its Tefen location is in the Western Galilee within Israel’s internationally recognised 1967 borders, not in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights.²

No public evidence identified of Rolls-Royce operations, sales, distribution, resellers, franchisees, or licensees in settlements; of Israeli sovereign-bond holdings, Israel-focused funds, or Israeli-domiciled equities held as corporate treasury investments; or of direct financial-institution activity such as sovereign-debt underwriting, Israel Bonds sales, or insurance underwriting.¹⁸

No public evidence identified of Techjet profit distributions, their amount or destination, associated tax flows, an Israeli government designation of Rolls-Royce as a strategic anchor or critical-infrastructure provider, or an Israel-specific revenue line in Rolls-Royce reporting.^{17, 18}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Techjet Aerofoils Ltd.: 50%-owned joint venture, Tefen Industrial Park; documented civil-aerospace component production.²
Rolls-Royce Solutions Israel Ltd.: wholly owned Netanya sales-and-service entity.⁹
Rolls-Royce Solutions America Inc.: US subsidiary through which the documented FMS arrangements are routed.¹
Who Profits: reports Israel-sourced revenue exceeding $97 million in 2024; the figure remains externally reported rather than company-confirmed.¹⁷

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

The core political vector is corporate response and public positioning around the documented defence relationship. After UN experts called for states and companies to halt arms transfers to Israel, Rolls-Royce Power Systems stated that it supports NATO and allies and follows applicable UK, US, and EU export-control and sanctions law. The response did not directly address the experts’ substantive human-rights concerns.³

The company’s UK state relationship is also relevant context but is not evidence of an Israeli-state linkage. The UK Government’s special share protects national-security interests in Rolls-Royce’s nuclear-propulsion and defence business and imposes governance protections, including limits on concentrated foreign ownership.⁷ The audits do not establish that this UK arrangement legally or structurally extends to the company’s Israel-related FMS contracts.

A 2016 strategic agreement between EL AL and Rolls-Royce covered engine and TotalCare servicing for Boeing 787 aircraft and was publicly facilitated by the UK Embassy in Tel Aviv. This is a documented commercial aviation relationship, distinct from the armoured-platform FMS record.¹⁹

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Rolls-Royce stated separately in 2025 that “nothing made by our defence division in the UK is used in Israel.” As framed, that statement concerns the UK Defence division and does not resolve the separate evidence relating to the Germany/US-based Power Systems and Solutions America supply channels.²⁰

No public evidence identified of Israel-policy, trade-legislation, or anti-boycott lobbying tied to Rolls-Royce PAC disbursements; corporate donations to Israeli military-welfare, settlement, or nationalist organisations; equivalent donated crisis-response resources to Israeli state, military, or NGO efforts during the Gaza war; or a formal OECD National Contact Point complaint specifically concerning Rolls-Royce and Israel/Palestine.²¹

No public evidence identified of personal Israel-focused advocacy ties, pro-Israel-organisation roles, or relevant personal donations by the named chief executive, chair, current directors, founders, or majority shareholders. These are unresolved due-diligence results, not proof that no such ties exist.^{8, 21}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Rolls-Royce Power Systems: issuer of the July 2024 export-control-compliance response.³
UK Government / HM Treasury: holder of the special share; UK relationship only, not an Israeli-state nexus.⁷
EL AL Israel Airlines: party to the 2016 commercial engine and servicing agreement.¹⁹
ADS Group / Rolls-Royce North America Holdings PAC: documented policy-engagement and US political-finance channels; no Israel-policy linkage identified in reviewed sources.²¹

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

Domain	I	M	P	V-Domain Score
Military	6.80	7.20	9.00	6.80
Digital	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Economic	6.30	7.00	6.80	6.12
Political	3.50	7.00	9.00	3.50

V_MAX: 6.80 Avg_OTHERS: 3.21
BRS Score: 620 Tier: B (Severe Complicity)

Military is the maximum domain because the record contains confirmed FMS-funded powerpack awards for Israeli armoured platforms, including a continuing February 2026 Merkava contract.^{1, 11} Economic reflects the Israeli operating footprint and documented commercial participation, while Digital remains zero because no qualifying digital nexus was publicly identified.^{2, 4} The V6.5 method is scale-free, evidence-only, and human-vetted; scores are fixed as supplied and do not convert allegations or proposed sales into confirmed performance.

Methodology Note

Evidence is limited to the four supplied domain audits and their documented sources; every positive claim is tied to that record.
Impact measures the type of activity, M measures its scale, and P measures the directness of the documented nexus; scores do not purport to quantify legal liability or completed harm.
Confirmed awards, modifications, and corporate entities are distinguished from possible-sale notifications, external estimates, civil-society assertions, and unresolved due-diligence findings.
Divested or exited operations are mitigating where established; no divested activity is treated here as a current nexus without supporting evidence.
Entity attribution is direct: group entities may support group attribution, but no transitive guilt is inferred from unrelated brands, suppliers, financiers, or UK state-security arrangements.
Settlement activity would be considered in both Economic and Political where documented. Here, no public evidence identified of settlement-geography operations; “No public evidence identified” denotes the reviewed record, not universal proof of absence.