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Does Cisco support Israel?
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Yes — Cisco has documented support for Israel on record. Every claim below links to its source.
Filed under: Tech companies · Companies that support Israel
Background
Cisco's relationship with Israel is longstanding and primarily commercial/governmental: the company states it has invested more than $2 billion in Israel since 1995, has run multi-year "Digital Agenda" and digital-hub partnerships with the Israeli government, and has supplied servers and communications equipment to the Israeli Ministry of Defense since at least 2013. Who Profits, an advocacy research center, documents a far larger pattern of Cisco sales to the Israeli military and police and to technology hubs later built in West Bank and Golan settlements; we cite its specific, checkable claims above and flag where its characterizations (e.g. the "David's Citadel" data center, settlement hub locations) rest on Who Profits/Drop Site News reporting we could not independently corroborate elsewhere. A 2016 SEC exempt-solicitation filing (PX14A6G) by shareholder advocate Heartland Initiative, urging Cisco investors to back a settlement-risk resolution, repeats Cisco's own $2 billion investment figure but is the advocate's argument, not Cisco's; it is not used as evidence here beyond confirming the $2 billion figure Cisco itself published. Claims of a specific dollar total of Cisco's Israel-linked revenue (e.g. $283 million in FY2024, with $111 million characterized as "conflict impact") originate from a Drop Site News report on leaked internal documents and are not independently verified, so are not included as sourced figures. Separately, after October 7, 2023, Cisco (the corporation) gave direct cash grants to its ~800 Israel-based employees and its CEO issued a public statement of support; advocacy sources also claim Cisco's employee-matching-gifts program treats pro-Israel charities (e.g. Friends of the IDF) as eligible, but we found no source for this beyond an activist blog and did not include it as evidence.
Who Profits (corporate profile) Drop Site News SEC EDGAR — PX14A6G (Heartland Initiative, 2016-11-22)
Timeline of documented support
Documented support
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership | 2016-06 | — | Government of Israel Cisco and the Israeli government announced a three-year strategic partnership to accelerate Israel's national "Digital Agenda", signed — in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's words — as a "declarative memorandum of understandings", following a meeting between Netanyahu, Cisco Executive Chairman John Chambers and Cisco Israel general manager Oren Sagi. Its first project was to turn the eastern Negev into Israel's first "smart region", with a digital hub delivered through a partner ecosystem and "New Media Negev", a digital-media programme jointly funded with Sapir College. Cisco's announcement puts no monetary value on the partnership itself. Separately and retrospectively, the same release states that Cisco "has invested over $2 billion in Israel through acquisitions, direct and indirect investments" — 11 acquisitions, over 30 startups and four funds across what it calls a nearly 20-year history. That $2 billion is a cumulative commercial investment total claimed by Cisco as of June 2016, not a donation, and not a sum pledged or paid under this partnership. | One source |
| Government contract | 2017-01 | $261,400,000 | Israeli Ministry of Defense / Israel Defense Forces (via integrator Bynet Data Communications) Won the Israeli Ministry of Defense's tender to supply servers for the Israeli military and other security forces for three years, with an option for two more, reported by the Ministry at NIS 1 billion (separately reported elsewhere as roughly $250 million); the tender was funded by US foreign military aid to Israel and Cisco replaced HP as supplier. Delivery was integrated by Israeli company Bynet Data Communications. Who Profits and Drop Site News, citing leaked internal Cisco documents, report the servers were integrated into "David's Citadel," the Israeli military's underground ICT data center in the Naqab/Negev completed in 2020 — a characterization we could not independently verify beyond these two sources. | |
| Partnership | 2018-03 | — | Government of Israel / Ministry for the Development of the Negev, the Galilee and the Periphery (local hubs in Jerusalem, Hura, Dimona, Sapir and elsewhere) Partnered with the Israeli government to build a national network of Cisco-equipped "digital hub" community-tech centers, expanding from 10 operating hubs in March 2018 toward a announced target of 100 by the end of 2019; President Reuven Rivlin cited hubs spanning east and west Jerusalem, Hura, Dimona and Sapir. In February 2019 the Ministry for the Development of the Negev, the Galilee and the Periphery allocated NIS 90 million (government funding, not a Cisco outlay) to open 45 of these Cisco-equipped hubs under the "Klika" program. Who Profits reports that, as of September 2023, seven of the 36 hubs opened under that program were located in the occupied West Bank (Modi'in Illit, Beitar Illit, Kiryat Arba, Itamar, Sha'ar Binyamin) and the occupied Syrian Golan (near Sha'al/Odem and in Katzrin) — a characterization from Who Profits that we could not independently verify beyond its report. | |
| Employee support | 2023-10 | — | Cisco employees in Israel Provided grants of $9,500 per affected employee in Israel, increased to $19,000 for employees called to reserve military service. | One source |
| Public statement | 2023-10 | — | Cisco Israel teams and customers Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wrote, after visiting Cisco's Israel teams following the October 7 attacks, that the company had "launched humanitarian efforts to support those most vulnerable" while "ensuring continuity of critical communications and security services," and pledged Cisco would "remain steadfast in our commitment to supporting our teams, our customers and partners, and the communities we serve" in Israel. | One source |
Frequently asked questions
Did Cisco donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
We have no records of cash donations, but Cisco has documented support of other kinds (Partnership, Government contract, Employee support, Public statement). 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. 8 distinct sources are cited for Cisco. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-25
- Cisco Newsroom (official) newsroom.cisco.com
- The Jerusalem Post jpost.com
- Who Profits (corporate profile) whoprofits.org
- Drop Site News dropsitenews.com
- Cisco Newsroom (official) newsroom.cisco.com
- Calcalist Ctech calcalistech.com
- Chuck Robbins (LinkedIn, October 2023) linkedin.com
- SEC EDGAR — PX14A6G (Heartland Initiative, 2016-11-22) sec.gov