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Does Broadcom support Israel?

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Support documentedupdated 2026-09-26

Yes — Broadcom has documented support for Israel on record. Every claim below links to its source.

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Background

Attribution matters with Broadcom: the Israeli acquisitions of 2009–2012 and the 2013 Tel Aviv University research fund were actions of Broadcom Corporation and its Broadcom Foundation. Avago Technologies completed its takeover of Broadcom Corporation on February 1, 2016 and adopted the Broadcom name; today's Broadcom Inc. inherited the Israeli operations and the product lines that grew out of them. Broadcom Inc.'s November 2023 acquisition of VMware — a company that had operated R&D centers in Israel — was a global deal, not an Israel-specific one. No Broadcom Inc. donations or statements relating to Israel after October 7, 2023 were found in news coverage or corporate-support aggregations, and its PAC shows no disbursements to pro-Israel committees. Broadcom's founder gives to Israel with his own money, which is not the company's record: Henry Samueli, who founded Broadcom in 1991 and chairs its board, and his wife Susan Samueli fund Israeli institutions in their own names. ynet reported a NIS 120 million gift in May 2023 to found a cancer research institute at Beilinson Hospital; Globes and ynet in April 2026 described that founding donation as $25 million and reported a further $50 million (about NIS 150 million) from the couple, bringing the total invested in the Samueli Institute to $93.5 million. Globes also puts a $20 million gift from the couple at Tel Aviv University. None of that is Broadcom money and none of it is counted as company support here. The company's Israeli footprint has shrunk as well as grown: two days after Broadcom's $18.9 billion purchase of CA Technologies closed in November 2018, CA began laying off hundreds of staff worldwide, dozens of them from its Israeli R&D arm in Kfar Saba and Herzliya, which a Broadcom spokesman in the United States confirmed without giving numbers.

SEC — Broadcom Limited press release on completion of Avago–Broadcom combination (Feb 1, 2016) Ynet (VMware's Israel workforce) Times of Israel ynet (Hebrew, 17 May 2023) — NIS 120m Samueli gift to Beilinson ynet (Hebrew, 30 Apr 2026) — further $50m Samueli gift Globes (Hebrew, 30 Apr 2026) — archived copy; globes.co.il blocks scripted access Anashim uMachshevim / pc.co.il (Hebrew, 8 Nov 2018) — CA layoffs in Israel; archived copy, live site blocks scripted access

Timeline of documented support

201020122014201620182009-12 — Acquisition: Dune Networks (Yakum, Israel)Acquisition2009-122010-11 — Acquisition: Percello Ltd. (Israel)Acquisition2010-112011 — Acquisition: Provigent (Israel)Acquisition20112012-04 — Acquisition: BroadLight (Ra'anana, Israel)Acquisition2012-042012-12 — Operations in Israel: Broadcom Israel R&D centers (Yakum and other sites)Operations in Israel2012-122013-11 — Donation: Tel Aviv UniversityDonation2013-112018-11 — Partnership: Tel Aviv UniversityPartnership2018-11

Documented support

TypeDateAmountRecipientSources
Acquisition2009-12$178,000,000Dune Networks (Yakum, Israel)
Broadcom Corporation (the legacy company whose name today's Broadcom Inc. carries) acquired Israeli data-center switch-fabric designer Dune Networks for an announced $178 million (its FY2009 10-K records $185.4 million excluding cash acquired) — its fourth acquisition in Israel. Dune's technology lives on in Broadcom's 'Dune' StrataDNX switch family, which includes the Jericho3-AI chips used in AI networking.
Acquisition2010-11$84,600,000Percello Ltd. (Israel)
Broadcom Corporation acquired Percello Ltd., an Israeli developer of femtocell system-on-chip solutions, for $84.6 million excluding $1.7 million of cash acquired, with up to $12.0 million more payable to Percello's former shareholders if the business hit certain sales levels in 2011 — the figures Broadcom gave in its own FY2010 annual report. Globes, which broke the deal in Hebrew on 27 October 2010, reported the price as $86 million under a headline of $88 million. Broadcom's head of strategic business development told Globes the company intended to expand its activity in Israel in the field. Globes counted the deal as Broadcom's sixth acquisition in Israel.
Acquisition2011$313,000,000Provigent (Israel)
Broadcom Corporation acquired Provigent, an Israeli developer of mixed-signal semiconductors for microwave backhaul with offices in Israel and Santa Clara, for approximately $313 million net of cash. The same year it also bought Israeli security-software firm SC Square for $42 million.
Acquisition2012-04$195,000,000BroadLight (Ra'anana, Israel)
Broadcom Corporation acquired Israeli passive-optical-network (PON) chipmaker BroadLight for about $195 million in cash net of cash assumed, plus up to $10 million tied to performance goals — reported as Broadcom's tenth acquisition in Israel.
Operations in Israel2012-12—Broadcom Israel R&D centers (Yakum and other sites)
By late 2012 Broadcom Corporation employed more than 800 people in Israel — its second-largest employment location worldwide, ahead of all of Europe combined — with over 95% in engineering roles, after roughly ten Israeli acquisitions (including Percello, bought in 2010). The Israeli development presence, centered on the Yakum office, carried over to Broadcom Inc. after Avago Technologies' 2016 purchase of Broadcom Corporation.
Donation2013-11-22—Tel Aviv University
The Broadcom Foundation — the company's charitable foundation, not the corporation itself — established a cyber-authentication research fund at Tel Aviv University, a two-year program reported at hundreds of thousands of dollars and described as the foundation's first program of its kind outside the United States. The agreement was signed in the presence of Broadcom chairman Henry Samueli.
Partnership2018-11—Tel Aviv University
Broadcom agreed to finance and build a laboratory building inside Tel Aviv University's campus, beside its Faculty of Engineering, on a build-operate-transfer basis that Globes reported as a first between a technology company and an Israeli academic institution: two thirds of the building holds Broadcom's own labs, the rest is used by the university, and the whole building passes to the university after 24 years (the standfirst of the same article says 25). Neither side would disclose what Broadcom is investing. The cornerstone was laid in November 2018. Globes reported that Broadcom would employ hundreds of people there, consolidating its Israeli staff from Airport City, Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Ra'anana and Yakum while keeping its Nazareth centre and its several dozen employees, and that the company has operated in Israel since 2000. The building is named for Broadcom founder and chief scientist Henry Samueli and his wife Susan, who gave the university $20 million of their own money — a personal gift, not the company's. The arrangement needed approval from the university, the Tel Aviv municipality and the higher-education planning and budgeting committee, and was handled on Broadcom's side by a vice-president who also chaired Ramot, the university's technology-transfer company.
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Did Broadcom donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?

We have no records of cash donations, but Broadcom has documented support of other kinds (Acquisition, Operations in Israel, Donation, Partnership). See the records on this page.

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Record last updated: 2026-09-26

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