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Does ABB Ltd support Israel?
Yes — ABB Ltd has documented support for Israel on record. Every claim below links to its source.
Filed under: Tech companies · Energy & oil companies · Companies that support Israel
Background
ABB is a Swiss-Swedish electrification and automation group. Its Israeli record documented here comes from ABB's own publications: a long-standing country organisation and venture investments in Israeli technology companies. Separately, the advocacy research groups AFSC Investigate and Who Profits list ABB over equipment they say is installed in occupied territory — an ABB electrical enclosure photographed at the Kalia solar field in the Jordan Valley, inverters supplied to a solar facility in the Negev, and security equipment at a Beitar substation feeding West Bank settlements. Those claims come from advocacy sources and could not be corroborated independently in this pass, so they are recorded as leads and are not listed as evidence. No donation, aid or public statement of political support for Israel by ABB, before or after October 2023, was found.
ABB news centre (official article) AFSC Investigate (advocacy, leads only) Who Profits (advocacy, leads only)
Timeline of documented support
Documented support
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations in Israel | 2020-02-25 | — | ABB's Israeli country organisation ABB runs a country organisation in Israel with its own Hebrew-language national website and a country managing director, and describes a presence going back more than eighty years. In a 2020 article published by ABB itself, Ronen Aharon, Country Managing Director for ABB in Israel, said: 'ABB has remained a steadfast partner in Israel's development and has a long and proud history of technology leadership in the country.' The same article traces that history from the first steam power station in Haifa, more than eight decades earlier, through the national water-carrier network built in the 1960s, and says ABB continues to supply major industrial, transport and infrastructure projects in Israel with automation and digital solutions. | |
| Investment / program | 2020-02-25 | — | TaKaDu, PointGrab and Grove Ventures (Israeli startups and an Israeli venture-capital firm) ABB Technology Ventures, ABB's strategic venture-capital arm, has invested in the Israeli startups TaKaDu (water-network monitoring) and PointGrab (smart-building occupancy sensors) and, in a further move into the Israeli ecosystem, in the Israeli venture-capital firm Grove Ventures, with a dedicated venture partner supporting its Israeli activity. ABB disclosed this while taking part in Israel Industry 4.0 week in Tel Aviv, where its venture head said Israel 'has a compelling presence of industrial technology startups'. Individual investment amounts were not disclosed. |
Frequently asked questions
Did ABB Ltd donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
We have no records of cash donations, but ABB Ltd has documented support of other kinds (Operations in Israel, Investment / program). See the records on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Every record on this page links to its source — news reports, official company statements, tax filings, or government records. 5 distinct sources are cited for ABB Ltd. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-07-30
- ABB news centre (official article) new.abb.com
- ABB Israel (official country website) new.abb.com
- ABB Technology Ventures (official) new.abb.com
- AFSC Investigate (advocacy, leads only) investigate.afsc.org
- Who Profits (advocacy, leads only) whoprofits.org