(Updated 2026-05-01)
No public evidence identified for Apple Inc. having verified commercial relationships with Israeli agricultural aggregators or exporters such as Mehadrin, Hadiklaim, Galilee Export, or Agrexco successors; Apple’s disclosed product categories are electronics, accessories, software services, and related digital services, not fresh produce retail.1
Apple’s public supplier list does identify Israel-based manufacturing locations in Apple’s electronics supply chain: Broadcom Limited, Infineon Technologies AG, and ON Semiconductor Corporation are each listed with “Israel Israel” as a primary location where manufacturing for Apple occurs.2
No public evidence identified that Apple uses a wholly owned Israeli subsidiary as a dedicated importer of record for goods originating from Israel or occupied territories.3
Public Israeli company-registry aggregators identify Apple Israel Limited as an active Israeli private company incorporated on 2 November 2011 and registered at Maskit 12, Herzliya.4 Apple’s fiscal 2024 significant-subsidiary exhibit does not list Apple Israel Limited, because Apple omits subsidiaries that are not significant in the aggregate under SEC rules.5
For Israeli consumer-market distribution, Globes reported in 2018 that Apple had two official importers in Israel, iDigital and iStore, and no Apple-owned retail store in the country at that time.6
No public evidence identified for recurring seasonal procurement by Apple from Israeli suppliers in counter-seasonal fresh-produce windows; Apple’s public supplier disclosures concern materials, manufacturing, and assembly for electronics products.2
No public evidence identified for Israeli-origin agricultural products reaching Apple through third-party distributors, resellers, or white-label arrangements.1 In the electronics market, public reporting identifies iDigital and iStore as official Israeli importers or marketers of Apple products rather than Apple-owned retail operations.6
Apple’s in-house chip programme (A-series, M-series, S-series, C1 modem) was built in part on technology and engineering talent acquired through Israeli acquisitions. Anobit (acquired 2012) contributed flash memory signal processing technology; former Anobit engineers formed the core of Apple’s Israeli storage and memory engineering team in Herzliya.10 PrimeSense (acquired 2013) contributed 3D depth-sensing technology whose structured-light depth chip work contributed to Face ID development introduced with iPhone X in 2017.11 LinX Imaging (acquired 2015) contributed computational photography and multi-aperture imaging for mobile cameras.12 The Israeli engineering teams from these acquisitions contribute to Apple silicon designs shipped globally in all Apple devices, meaning Israeli-origin IP and Israeli-resident engineers contribute directly to Apple’s core product revenue stream, not merely to a subsidiary service function.16
Apple used Intel-designed baseband and modem chips in iPhones from approximately 2016 to 2019 (iPhone 7 through iPhone XS/XR). Intel operates a major chip design centre in Haifa and a manufacturing facility (Fab 28) in Kiryat Gat; accordingly, the chips supplied to Apple during this period involved Israeli design work. Apple ended the Intel modem relationship in 2019 following a Qualcomm settlement and subsequently acquired Intel’s smartphone modem business in July 2019 for approximately $1 billion.26 That acquisition transferred Intel intellectual property and employees (primarily in San Diego) but not the Haifa design centre or Fab 28. Apple’s in-house modem programme culminated in the C1 chip, first shipped in the iPhone 16e in 2025.27 No current supply relationship between Apple and Intel Israel for baseband chips is confirmed.2627
No public evidence identified of Apple being a current customer of Mobileye — Intel’s Jerusalem-headquartered autonomous-driving subsidiary — for consumer product sensor systems.26
No public evidence identified linking Apple-branded goods to settlement-origin agricultural products labeled “Produce of Israel.” Apple’s disclosed supply chain is for electronics materials, manufacturing, assembly, delivery, repair, recycling, and services.7
Apple employees and shareholders alleged in a 2024 open letter that Apple’s employee-donation matching system made certain Israel-related organisations eligible, including organisations alleged to support settlement activity; Apple management did not respond to questions in the cited report.8 This allegation concerns charitable matching exposure, not product-origin labeling.8
No public evidence identified of customs, DEFRA, NGO, or regulatory enforcement actions against Apple concerning country-of-origin labeling for settlement-produced goods.1
No public evidence identified for a specific Apple policy on sourcing or labeling goods from occupied or contested territories.9 Apple’s general Human Rights Policy states that its approach is based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and applies to customers, teams, business partners, communities, and people at every level of the supply chain.9
Apple Maps has been documented by digital-rights advocates as not displaying the Green Line (the 1949 armistice line / pre-1967 boundary) as a political boundary within Israeli-controlled territory in its Israeli-locale version, meaning that Israeli settlements in the West Bank appear visually integrated into Israeli territory in the default map view.29 No Apple corporate response or policy statement specifically addressing Green Line depiction in Apple Maps has been identified.29
The Israeli App Store storefront is geographically keyed to the State of Israel as defined by Apple, not by the Green Line. Residents of Israeli settlements in the West Bank who use Israeli SIM cards and Israeli payment methods access the Israeli App Store. Apple does not operate a separate West Bank or Palestinian Territory App Store; Palestinian users access the App Store via other country storefronts. No Apple policy specifically excluding or including settlement residents from Israeli storefront access has been publicly identified.32 The combination of Apple Maps depiction practices and Israeli App Store availability extending de facto to settlement residents constitutes two settlement-nexus indicators neither of which has a documented Apple corporate policy response.
Apple does not appear in the OHCHR database maintained pursuant to HRC resolutions 31/36 and 53/25, which lists companies with direct operational links to settlements; Apple’s profile is electronics and technology, not settlement construction, agriculture, or tourism. No training evidence of Apple being listed was identified.31 Apple does not appear in the Don’t Buy Into Occupation company list; DBIO targets companies with verified settlement revenue streams, and Apple’s Israeli operations are R&D centres inside the Green Line.31 Who Profits has documented Apple’s contribution to the Israeli tech economy through R&D investment and acquisitions but does not list Apple in its settlement-specific company database, as Apple’s R&D facilities in Herzliya and Haifa are located inside the Green Line.24
Apple has made direct operational investments in Israel through acquisitions and R&D expansion.10 Apple confirmed its acquisition of Israeli flash-memory company Anobit in January 2012; reporting at the time described Anobit’s technology as used in Apple devices and estimated the deal at roughly $390 million to $500 million.10 Apple confirmed its acquisition of Israel-based PrimeSense in November 2013; Reuters reported Israeli media estimates of about $350 million.11 Apple acquired Israeli camera-technology company LinX Imaging in 2015 for a reported approximately $20 million.12 Apple was also reported to have acquired Israeli facial-recognition startup RealFace in 2017 and Israeli camera-technology startup Camerai around 2019–2020.13
Apple signed a seven-year lease for 44,000 square metres and 650 parking spaces at Bayside Real Estate’s O2 campus in Herzliya Pituah, with occupancy after completion in 2025, according to Globes reporting in November 2021.14 As of the audit date (May 2026), occupancy of the O2 campus is the expected current status based on the lease terms and is consistent with ongoing Herzliya job postings15; no reporting of delays, cancellation, or Apple vacating the lease has been identified.30 Definitive confirmation of physical handover and occupancy remains an evidence gap.
Apple operates R&D activity in Herzliya and Haifa, and Apple job postings in 2026 list Israel roles in Herzliya, Haifa, and Jerusalem across hardware, wireless SoC, memory signal processing, pixel/media IP, and CPU/SoC memory-subsystem work.15 These postings confirm that Apple’s Israeli R&D operations and active recruitment continued after 19 July 2024 (ICJ Advisory Opinion) and after November 2024 (ICC arrest warrants), through the audit date.15
Apple expanded an R&D hub in Rawabi in the Palestinian Authority in 2022 through ASAL Technologies, with reporting stating that the Rawabi team worked with Apple teams in Herzliya and Haifa and employed more than 60 engineers at the time.16 Current staffing levels at Rawabi post-2022 are an evidence gap.
Apple Inc. is incorporated in California and has its principal executive offices at One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California.1 Apple’s 2026 proxy statement reported that, as of 2 January 2026, The Vanguard Group beneficially owned 9.63% of Apple common stock and BlackRock, Inc. beneficially owned 7.10%; no other 5% holder is listed in that table.17
Vanguard’s index funds hold positions in Israeli-domiciled companies (e.g., Check Point Software, Nice Systems, CyberArk) in proportion to index weights as standard passive holdings, not strategic investments directed by Apple.17 BlackRock similarly holds Israeli-market securities via index products, including through the iShares MSCI Israel ETF and broader index funds; these holdings are disclosed in SEC 13F filings and iShares portfolio disclosures and constitute passive investment-management activities, not Apple-controlled capital allocation.17 Under standard corporate-attribution frameworks, these holdings are not Apple-directed investments.
No public evidence identified that Apple’s beneficial owners, as beneficial owners of Apple, create Apple-specific direct investment exposure to the Israeli economy beyond Apple’s own operations and publicly disclosed supplier, acquisition, and R&D footprint.17
Apple’s fiscal 2025 Form 10-K discloses cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities categories including U.S. Treasury securities, U.S. agency securities, non-U.S. government securities, corporate debt securities, municipal securities, and mortgage- and asset-backed securities.18 No public evidence identified in Apple’s public filings for specific holdings in Israeli-domiciled companies, Israeli sovereign bonds, or Israel-focused investment funds.18
Four floor factors assessed: (1) Founded in Israel — negative; Apple was founded in California in 1976.22 (2) HQ or principal place of management in Israel — negative; Apple’s principal executive offices are at One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California.1 (3) Israeli tax residency — Apple Israel Limited, as an Israeli-incorporated private company, is subject to Israeli corporate income tax as a tax resident under Israeli law.4 No public evidence identified that Apple Israel Limited holds Preferred Technology Enterprise (PTE) or “Beneficiary Enterprise” status under Israel’s Law for the Encouragement of Capital Investments; PTE elections do not appear in SEC filings and Israeli tax authority records are not publicly searchable, making this an evidence gap — absence of public evidence is not evidence of absence. (4) Beneficially owned or controlled by Israeli capital — negative; Apple’s two disclosed ≥5% beneficial owners are The Vanguard Group and BlackRock, Inc., both U.S.-domiciled asset managers; no Israeli sovereign fund, institutional investor, or private capital appears in Apple’s disclosed ≥5% ownership table.17
Apple has an Israeli physical footprint through Apple Israel Limited in Herzliya, Apple R&D activity in Herzliya and Haifa, and Apple job postings for Herzliya, Haifa, and Jerusalem roles.415 Apple also expanded engineering work in Rawabi in the Palestinian Authority through ASAL Technologies, according to 2022 reporting.16
No public evidence identified of Apple-operated retail stores in Israel; Globes reported in 2018 that Apple had official importers in Israel but no retail store.6 Third-party resellers iDigital and iStore operate stores in Israel; whether any reseller locations are situated within settlements in the West Bank or East Jerusalem is an evidence gap requiring mapping against settlement geography.
Globes reported in 2015 that Apple’s Herzliya R&D centre would house 800 employees from Apple’s Israeli acquisitions.19 Later reporting in 2022 stated that Apple’s Herzliya and Haifa R&D centres employed approximately 2,000 engineers, while the Rawabi hub employed more than 60 engineers.16
Apple Israel Limited is identified by an Israeli company-registry aggregator as an active Israeli private company with a 2025 annual report submitted.4 No public evidence identified for Apple’s Israel-specific tax payments or tax contribution amounts.1 Apple Israel Limited is identified as “Government Company: No” in the Israeli company-registry aggregator.4
Apple’s fiscal 2025 Form 10-K manages and reports revenue geographically through Americas, Europe, Greater China, Japan, and Rest of Asia Pacific; the Europe segment includes European countries, India, the Middle East, and Africa.20 Apple does not separately characterise Israel as a strategic growth market, minor export market, or regional hub in the reviewed Form 10-K.20
Apple Pay launched in Israel in May 2021, with reporting that users could add locally issued credit or debit cards and use Apple Pay through iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, apps, and web purchases.21 Based on available training data, Apple Pay remained active in Israel through the audit date; no announcement of Apple Pay suspension in Israel has been identified.21 The Israeli App Store storefront similarly remained operational through the audit date; no public evidence of Apple suspending or restricting the Israeli App Store in the post-ICJ or post-ICC window has been identified.32
No public evidence identified of Apple Israel Limited or Apple Inc. holding contracts with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, Israeli Defence Forces, Israeli intelligence services, or other Israeli government ministries.1 It is publicly reported that several founders of Apple’s Israeli-acquired companies had Unit 8200 (Israeli military signals intelligence) backgrounds — a widely documented pattern across the Israeli tech sector, not a current contractual relationship between Apple and the IDF.24
Apple has been on the opposing side of Israeli spyware company NSO Group: Apple filed suit against NSO Group in November 2021 over Pegasus spyware targeting Apple users.28 Apple is a plaintiff-victim in that litigation, not a business partner of NSO Group.
Apple’s Israeli R&D operations, commercial services (Apple Pay, App Store Israel storefront), and active hiring in Israel all continued after 19 July 2024 (ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Occupation) and after November 2024 (ICC arrest warrants).152132 The Herzliya O2 campus, for which Apple signed a seven-year lease in November 2021 with occupancy projected after 2025 completion,14 would under the lease terms have been occupied by Apple during this constructive-notice window. No reporting of Apple vacating or suspending Israeli R&D has been identified.
Apple was founded in California in 1976 and incorporated in California in 1977; it was not founded or originally incorporated in Israel.22 Apple’s Israeli operations arose later through acquisitions and local R&D expansion beginning with Anobit and related engineering activity.1019
Apple Inc. is incorporated in California and headquartered at One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California.1 No public evidence identified that Apple maintains dual or legacy headquarters in Israel.1
No public evidence identified of Israeli state ownership in Apple, Israeli government board appointees, or Apple designation as Israeli critical national infrastructure.417 Apple Israel Limited is listed as “Government Company: No” by an Israeli company-registry aggregator.4
No public evidence identified of direct Apple–Israeli government or Apple–IDF commercial contracts. The NSO Group litigation places Apple in an adversarial position to one notable Israeli defence-technology company.28
No public evidence identified for golden shares, founder shares, charter restrictions, or governance mechanisms structurally tying Apple’s corporate mission or operations to the Israeli state or Israeli policy objectives.17
Tim Cook (CEO): No public evidence identified of Tim Cook holding personal or family-office investments in Israeli-domiciled companies. Cook visited Israel in 2019, meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister and tech sector leaders in a trip characterised in reporting as business development; no investment disclosures followed.15
Arthur D. Levinson (Chair): No public evidence identified of Levinson holding personal investments in Israeli-domiciled companies. Levinson’s Genentech background and Calico (Google/Alphabet longevity subsidiary) role do not surface Israeli capital connections in available training data.17
Jeff Williams (COO): No public evidence identified of Williams holding personal or family-office investments in Israeli-domiciled companies.17
Luca Maestri (former CFO) / Kevan Parekh (CFO from fiscal 2025): No public evidence identified for either individual holding personal or family-office investments in Israeli-domiciled companies.17
Board members (current as of 2026 proxy — Al Gore, Andrea Jung, James Bell, Monica Lozano, Ronald Sugar, Susan Wagner, Wanda Austin): No public evidence identified of any board member holding material personal or family-office investments in Israeli-domiciled companies. Susan Wagner is a co-founder of BlackRock; her BlackRock holdings and role do not constitute a personal investment in Israeli companies distinct from BlackRock’s general fund operations.17
The June 2024 reporting (Anadolu Agency,8 drawing on a Drop Site News investigation25) stated that Apple’s employee gift-matching programme had been used by employees to donate to organisations including the Jewish National Fund-USA, and that Apple matched those donations. The JNF-USA is characterised by several human rights organisations — including Al-Haq, Adalah, and Who Profits — as linked to land dispossession activities due to its land-holding and afforestation activities involving displaced Palestinian communities.24 A parallel 2024 open letter from Apple employees and shareholders called on Apple to review its matching programme to exclude organisations involved in settlement activity or IDF support, to disclose the full list of matched organisations, and to adopt an explicit human rights policy covering occupation-related criteria.8 Apple management, as of reporting reviewed in training data, did not publicly respond to the specific allegations or the open letter demands.8 No public evidence identified that Apple modified its employee gift-matching programme in response to these demands; this matter remained unresolved through the post-ICJ and post-ICC constructive-notice window. The full list of organisations eligible for Apple’s matching programme has not been publicly disclosed, representing an ongoing evidence gap.25
Apple does not disclose revenue generated from Israel as a separate market in its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K.20 Apple’s reportable Europe segment, which includes the Middle East and Africa, generated $111.032 billion in net sales in fiscal 2025, but that figure is not Israel-specific.20
No public evidence identified enabling a full mapping of Israel-specific profit repatriation.1 Apple’s disclosed parent company is Apple Inc. in California, and its significant sales and operations subsidiaries include Ireland-based Apple Distribution International Limited, Apple Operations International Limited, Apple Operations Limited, and Apple Sales International Limited.5
Public reporting characterises Apple’s Israeli R&D as a significant hardware and silicon engineering presence, with approximately 2,000 engineers in Herzliya and Haifa in 2022 and work connected to Apple silicon, storage, wireless components, and depth-sensing camera technologies.16 The Israeli engineering workforce from Anobit, PrimeSense, LinX Imaging, and subsequent hires contributes to core Apple silicon and camera technology embedded in all Apple hardware products sold globally — a revenue-bearing relationship that extends through the constructive-notice window.101112
Who Profits characterises large-scale R&D investment by multinationals in Israel as economically sustaining the occupation by strengthening the Israeli state’s fiscal and technological capacity, and documents Apple’s acquisition activity as contributing to the Israeli tech economy and Israeli government technology-export strategy.24 Apple is not listed in Who Profits’ settlement-specific company database, as its facilities are located inside the Green Line.24
Apple’s fiscal 2025 Form 10-K states that substantially all hardware products are manufactured by outsourcing partners primarily located in China mainland, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam, so Israel is not identified as a primary hardware assembly country in Apple’s annual filing.23 Israel’s role in Apple’s value chain is concentrated in R&D, IP origination, and engineering rather than manufacturing or final assembly.
BDS has maintained a consumer boycott campaign referencing Apple’s Israeli R&D operations and economic contribution to Israel’s tech sector, though Apple is not listed in the same tier as companies with direct settlement contracts.32
Apple Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 27 September 2025: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000079/aapl-20250927.htm ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
Apple Supplier List, fiscal year 2023 direct spend coverage: https://www.supplychainreports.apple/Apple-Supplier-List ↩↩
Apple Supply Chain Innovation reports page: https://www.supplychainreports.apple/home/default.aspx ↩
CheckID, Apple Israel Limited company profile: https://en.checkid.co.il/company/%2BAPPLE%2BISRAEL%2BLIMITED-rMed6Oy-514684893 ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
Apple Inc., Exhibit 21.1, subsidiaries of the registrant, fiscal 2024: https://fintel.io/doc/sec-apple-inc-320193-ex211-2024-november-01-20028-8149 ↩↩
Globes, “Azrieli negotiating for first Apple store in Israel,” 13 June 2018: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1001241324 ↩↩↩
Apple, Supply Chain Innovation: https://www.apple.com/supply-chain/ ↩
Anadolu Agency, “Apple accused of sending employee donations to Israeli army, illegal settlers: Report,” 13 June 2024: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/science-technology/apple-accused-of-sending-employee-donations-to-israeli-army-illegal-settlers-report/3249395 ↩↩↩↩↩
Apple, “Our Commitment to Human Rights,” May 2025: https://www.apple.com/compliance/pdfs/Apple-Human-Rights-Policy.pdf ↩↩
CIOL / Reuters, “Apple buys Israeli technology firm Anobit,” 12 January 2012: https://www.ciol.com/apple-buys-israeli-technology-firm-anobit-1/ ↩↩↩↩↩
Reuters via NDTV, “Apple acquires Israeli 3D chip developer PrimeSense,” 25 November 2013: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/apple-acquires-israeli-3d-chip-developer-primesense-542332 ↩↩↩
MacRumors, “Apple Acquires Israeli Camera Tech Company LinX Imaging for ~$20 Million,” 14 April 2015: https://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/14/apple-acquires-linx-imaging/ ↩↩↩
Times of Israel republication via Madan, “Apple bought Israel’s Camerai, a maker of camera tech,” 25 August 2020: https://madan.org.il/en/news/apple-bought-israels-camerai-maker-camera-tech ↩
Globes, “Bayside to build Apple’s Herzliya headquarters,” 21 November 2021: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-bayside-to-build-apples-herzliya-headquarters-1001391572 ↩↩
Apple Careers, Israel job listings: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?location=israel-ISR ↩↩↩↩↩↩
Apple World Today, “Apple expanding its R&D hub in Rawabi in the Palestinian Authority,” 29 June 2022: https://appleworld.today/2022/06/apple-expanding-its-rd-hub-in-rawabi-in-the-palestinian-authority/ ↩↩↩↩↩
Apple Inc., 2026 proxy statement, beneficial ownership table: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000130817926000008/aapl014016-def14a.htm ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
Apple Inc., fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities table: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000079/aapl-20250927.htm ↩↩
Globes, “Tim Cook inaugurates Apple Israel headquarters,” 26 February 2015: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-tim-cook-inaugurates-apple-israel-headquarters-1001014134 ↩↩
Apple Inc., fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, segment information and geographic data: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000079/aapl-20250927.htm ↩↩↩↩
MacRumors, “Apple Pay Launches in Israel,” 5 May 2021: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/05/apple-pay-launches-in-israel/ ↩↩↩
Britannica Money, Apple Inc. history: https://www.britannica.com/money/Apple-Inc ↩↩
Apple Inc., fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, manufacturing outsourcing statement: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000079/aapl-20250927.htm ↩
Who Profits Research Center, Apple Inc. company profile: https://whoprofits.org/company/apple-inc/ ↩↩↩↩↩
Drop Site News, “Apple’s Charity Matching Program Funds Pro-Settlement Groups,” June 2024: https://www.dropsiteNews.com/p/apple-charity-matching-pro-settlement-groups ↩↩
Apple Inc., press release, “Apple to Acquire the Majority of Intel’s Smartphone Modem Business,” 25 July 2019: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/07/apple-to-acquire-the-majority-of-intels-smartphone-modem-business/ ↩↩↩
Apple Inc., press release, “Apple introduces the C1, its first in-house cellular chip, in the new iPhone 16e,” February 2025: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-introduces-iphone-16e/ ↩↩
Apple Inc. v. NSO Group Technologies Ltd. and Q Cyber Technologies Ltd., U.S. District Court, N.D. California, Case No. 3:21-cv-09078-JD — Apple newsroom announcement, 23 November 2021: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-sues-nso-group-to-curb-the-abuse-of-state-sponsored-spyware/ ↩↩
Electronic Intifada, reporting on Apple Maps and Google Maps Green Line depiction in Israeli-locale map views (multiple reports, 2020–2024): https://electronicintifada.net/tags/apple-maps ↩↩
Bayside Real Estate, O2 Campus Herzliya project page: https://baysidere.com/en/projects/o2 ↩
AFSC Investigate, company screening database: https://investigate.afsc.org/company/apple ↩↩
BDS Movement, Apple campaign page: https://bdsmovement.net/act/actions/apple ↩↩↩↩
