Does Adobe support Israel?

We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Adobe. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.

Filed under: Tech companies · Companies that support Israel

Background

Adobe has no recorded donations, public statements, or material support for Israel. Its Israeli footprint is modest: a sales subsidiary, Adobe Systems Israel Ltd. (Herzliya), still listed in its 2025 SEC subsidiary exhibit, and a small Tel Aviv R&D center that Adobe inherited through its 2018 acquisition of US company Marketo (which had bought Israeli startup Insightera in 2013) — Adobe closed that center in 2021 and moved the work to the US. No post-October 7 corporate statements, donations, or employee-match programs relating to Israel were found, and Adobe has no political action committee. The main controversy linking Adobe to the war is unrelated to support for either side: its Adobe Stock marketplace drew criticism in late 2023 for selling third-party AI-generated images of the Israel-Hamas war that circulated as if they were real photographs.

CTech (Calcalist) — Adobe closing Israeli R&D center SEC — Adobe FY2025 subsidiaries exhibit (EX-21.1) Business & Human Rights Resource Centre — Adobe Stock AI images

What we checked

• News & official statements — 2026-07-20
  Searched Adobe statements/donations on Israel and post-October-7 actions; none found. Coverage relates to the closure of its Tel Aviv R&D center in 2021 (CTech) and the unrelated Adobe Stock AI-image labeling controversy; no corporate support actions identified.
• Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-20
  Adobe Foundation (EIN 26-0233808, Wilmington DE) 990-PF filings FY2007-FY2025 reviewed via Nonprofit Explorer; summary data shows ~$14M FY2025 charitable disbursements but no grantee list; no Israel-linked grantees (FIDF, JNF, MDA, United Hatzalah, etc.) identified in available data.
• SEC filings — 2026-07-20
  55 full-text 'israel' hits (CIK 796343) are EX-21 subsidiary exhibits listing Adobe Systems Israel Ltd. (still listed as of the FY2025 exhibit dated 2025-11-28) — operations boilerplate; no investments, contracts, or support-indicating filings.
• Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-20
  No Adobe political committees found in FEC committee search; the company has no corporate PAC.
• Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-20
• usaspending — 2026-09-24
  Queried the USAspending.gov award API on 2026-09-24 for US federal contracts, grants and other awards to this company whose award text mentions Israel. It returned no awards.
• lobbying — 2026-09-24
  Searched the US Lobbying Disclosure Act database at lda.gov on 2026-09-24 for filings naming this company as the client whose reported lobbying issues mention Israel. No filings matched.
• ohchr — 2026-09-24
  Checked the UN OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, report A/HRC/60/19, on 2026-09-24. This company is not listed in it.
• whoprofits — 2026-09-24
  Searched the Who Profits company index on 2026-09-24 — the research centre that documents corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation. This company has no profile there.

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Sources & citations

Record last updated: 2026-09-24

• CTech (Calcalist) — Adobe closing Israeli R&D center calcalistech.com
• SEC — Adobe FY2025 subsidiaries exhibit (EX-21.1) sec.gov
• Business & Human Rights Resource Centre — Adobe Stock AI images business-humanrights.org