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Does CyberArk support Israel?

CyberArk Software Ltd.

Support documentedupdated 2026-09-26

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

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Background

CyberArk is an Israeli company by origin, incorporation and workforce rather than a foreign company that chose to support Israel. It was founded in Petah Tikva in 1999 by Udi Mokady and Alon N. Cohen, listed on NASDAQ as CYBR in 2014, built its research and development almost entirely in Israel — a headquarters campus in Petah Tikva and a second centre in Be'er Sheva, with 1,062 of 3,793 employees in Israel at the end of 2024 — and was bought by the American firm Palo Alto Networks for about $25 billion in a deal completed on February 11, 2026, the second-largest acquisition in cybersecurity and one of the biggest exits Israel has ever seen. Most of its documented giving inside Israel is civilian, and much of it was reported only in Hebrew: an equity donation at the 2014 IPO to Tmura, the Israeli Public Service Venture Fund, which raised more than $700,000 for educational initiatives; years of donations and employee volunteering for ELIYA, the association for children with blindness or visual impairment, including the gift of a multisensory dark room to its Petah Tikva centre in June 2023; official sponsorship of the Olympic judoka Gili Sharir from June 2021, put by the reporting outlet at tens of thousands of shekels; and, in June 2025, technology-based education ventures for the rehabilitation of the Western Galilee launched with the philanthropist Raya Strauss Ben Dror at a joint outlay of about NIS 4 million. After the October 7, 2023 attack, CEO Matt Cohen published a solidarity statement on the company blog and the company funded reintegration workshops for staff returning from reserve duty; Hebrew reporting later that month named the wartime recipients — Magen David Adom, ZAKA, the Lev Echad association for residents of the Gaza-border communities, and associations that support IDF combat units — and said the company was also funding travel by relatives of hostages held in Gaza to European capitals. No payment to the Israeli military itself or to any Israeli government body is documented, and the company appears on no boycott movement's priority target list; in its own SEC filings the traffic runs the other way, with CyberArk Labs receiving research funding from the Israeli Innovation Authority. Since February 2026 the company has had an American owner, and nothing on this page should be read as an act of Palo Alto Networks — including the layoffs of about 500 CyberArk staff, a few dozen of them in Israel, that Palo Alto Networks announced a day after the deal closed.

SEC — CyberArk Software Ltd. Form 20-F for 2024 CyberArk — Community Social Responsibility (archived capture, April 22, 2026; the live page now redirects to Palo Alto Networks) The Times of Israel — In second-biggest exit in Israeli history, Palo Alto buys CyberArk for $25 billion ICE (Israel) — This is the cyber company joining the effort to bring the hostages home Globes — The cyber giant's donation to the Western Galilee (archived capture, July 19, 2025; globes.co.il blocks automated requests) Geektime — A day after the acquisition: Palo Alto is laying off hundreds of CyberArk employees (archived capture, February 13, 2026; geektime.co.il blocks automated requests)

Timeline of documented support

199820022006201020142018202220261999 — Operations in Israel: State of Israel (headquarters, R&D base, employment, tax base)Operations in Israel19992014 — Donation: Tmura — The Israeli Public Service Venture FundDonation20142021-06 — Sponsorship: Gili Sharir — athlete on Israel's national judo teamSponsorship2021-062023-06 — In-kind support: ELIYA — Israeli non-profit for children with blindness or visual impairment, Petah Tikva centreIn-kind support2023-062023-10 — Public statement: Not applicable — public statement by CEO Matt CohenPublic statement2023-102023-10 — Donation: Magen David Adom; ZAKA; the Lev Echad association, which works for residents of the Gaza-border communities; associations that support IDF combat units; and awareness travel by relatives of hostages held in GazaDonation2023-102024-10 — Employee support: CyberArk employees in Israel called up for military reserve duty, and their familiesEmployee support2024-102025-06 — Donation: "Beit AI", a technology education centre in Nahariya, and the "Imagination Lab" at the Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council, run with the Athena FundDonation2025-062026-02 — Acquisition: Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (buyer) — CyberArk Software Ltd. shareholders (sellers)Acquisition2026-022026 — Donation: ELIYA (spelled ELIA on CyberArk's own page) — Israeli non-profit for children who are blind or visually impairedDonation2026

Documented support

TypeDateAmountRecipientSources
Operations in Israel1999—State of Israel (headquarters, R&D base, employment, tax base)
CyberArk was founded in Israel in 1999 by Udi Mokady and Alon N. Cohen and has remained an Israeli company throughout: it is incorporated under the laws of the State of Israel, registered with the Israeli Registrar of Companies under number 51-229164-2, and its principal executive offices are at 9 Hapsagot St., Park Ofer B, Petach-Tikva, with a US office in Newton, Massachusetts. In the annual report for 2024 (Form 20-F filed with the SEC in March 2025) the company disclosed 3,793 employees and subcontractors worldwide, of whom 1,062 were located in Israel — the second-largest concentration after the United States — and stated that it conducts its research and development "primarily in Israel," spending $243.1 million on R&D in 2024. It operates a second Israeli R&D centre in Be'er Sheva alongside the Petah Tikva headquarters. The same filing notes that its CyberArk Labs research team takes part in AI-related research "supported and funded by the Israeli Innovation Authority" — that is, a case of the company receiving Israeli state funding, not giving it. Attribution note: this is the company's own operational footprint in Israel, not a donation to any Israeli body.
Donation2014—Tmura — The Israeli Public Service Venture Fund
At the time of its NASDAQ initial public offering in 2014, CyberArk donated shares of its stock to Tmura, the Israeli Public Service Venture Fund, an organisation founded in 2002 to channel equity and option donations from Israeli high-tech companies into Israeli nonprofits. On the company's own account, those donated shares raised more than $700,000, which Tmura used to fund educational initiatives for young people in Israel. Source note: the CyberArk community page carrying this statement is cited here as an archived capture taken on April 22, 2026, because the live address now redirects to a Palo Alto Networks product page. Attribution note: this was a corporate donation of equity by CyberArk itself; the money was disbursed by Tmura, not by CyberArk, and no amount is claimed here beyond the company's own 'more than $700,000' figure.
Sponsorship2021-06-29—Gili Sharir — athlete on Israel's national judo team
CyberArk became the official sponsor of the Israeli judoka Gili Sharir, then 21, who competed for Israel in the under-63kg category at the Tokyo Olympics that opened on July 23, 2021. The Israeli outlet ICE reported the sponsorship on June 29, 2021 and put its value at "tens of thousands of shekels" (עשרות אלפי שקלים); no exact figure was given, so no amount is recorded on this row. The deal was launched at a ceremony at CyberArk's offices attended by Chen Bitan, head of CyberArk Israel, Ruti Shaked, the company's global HR vice-president, and Zohar Tadmor Eilat, HR vice-president for CyberArk Israel. Bitan called it "an amazing connection between CyberArk as a globally leading Israeli company and judo in Israel," and Sharir said at the ceremony that it was "the first time I have a sponsor who is not dad and mom." The sponsorship was still running in October 2022, when ICE reported that Sharir fronted a CyberArk recruitment campaign for its Petah Tikva and Be'er Sheva sites, described her as the company's official sponsee "for over a year," said CyberArk had supported her since June 2021, and quoted her saying CyberArk were "the first to believe in me and for me they are like family." Attribution note: this is corporate sponsorship of an individual athlete, not a donation to a state body or to a sports federation, and both reports come from the same outlet, ICE, so this is one outlet twice rather than two independent witnesses.
Donation2026—ELIYA (spelled ELIA on CyberArk's own page) — Israeli non-profit for children who are blind or visually impaired
CyberArk's own community page — cited here as an archived capture taken on April 22, 2026, because the live address now redirects to a Palo Alto Networks product page — states that the company supports ELIYA, the Israeli non-profit for children who are blind or visually impaired, with a financial donation and with employee volunteering "for the last three years," and that its wider community programme provides paid time off for volunteering and financial support to local community organisations. The Israeli outlet ICE reported in June 2023 that CyberArk had "adopted" ELIYA for the previous seven years. The two accounts disagree on how long the relationship has run, and neither gives a start date, so none is inferred here; the date on this row is the date on which the company's description was verified, not the start of the programme.
In-kind support2023-06-12—ELIYA — Israeli non-profit for children with blindness or visual impairment, Petah Tikva centre
On June 12, 2023 the Israeli outlet ICE reported that CyberArk had donated a "dark room" to the Petah Tikva centre of ELIYA, the Israeli non-profit that treats children from six months to six years old with blindness or visual impairment. The room is a multisensory space free of outside stimuli in which light, colour, movement and noise are regulated to each child's needs, and it is used to help children preserve their residual sight and make the most of it. The room was inaugurated that day at the centre, which is being refurbished. Present at the ceremony were Chen Bitan, head of CyberArk Israel, and Gili Shiloni, CyberArk's head of human resources in Israel, with Tamar Fisher, chair of ELIYA's board, and Hanit Cohen, ELIYA's chief executive. Bitan said the work with ELIYA is part of CyberArk's social responsibility programme, that a large number of employees volunteer their own time at ELIYA activities through the year, and that "we are proud to be the donors of the room, whose central purpose is to improve the children's visual functioning." Attribution note: this is an in-kind gift of a facility by the corporation, distinct from the employee volunteering described alongside it; no value was disclosed, so no amount is recorded on this row. ICE is the only outlet found to have reported it and the piece runs with a public-relations photograph credit, so treat it as a single-sourced, company-supplied account.
Public statement2023-10-13—Not applicable — public statement by CEO Matt Cohen
Six days after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, CyberArk CEO Matt Cohen published a company blog post titled "Our Hearts Are Broken, but We Will Prevail," writing: "We are horrified by the barbaric attack on Israel and the Israeli people." He said a small percentage of the company's team had been called to military reserve duty and that "some employees have bravely volunteered," that the company's priority was the safety of its employees while it remained committed to customers, and closed: "These atrocities are horrific, but the people of Israel are strong and resilient, and they will prevail. We will prevail." Attribution note: this is a statement of solidarity by the CEO on behalf of the company; the post announced no donation, relief fund or matching programme.
Donation2023-10-30—Magen David Adom; ZAKA; the Lev Echad association, which works for residents of the Gaza-border communities; associations that support IDF combat units; and awareness travel by relatives of hostages held in Gaza
On October 30, 2023 the Israeli outlet ICE reported that CyberArk was concentrating substantial effort on assistance at the national level "both through donations and through significant volunteering by its employees," and it named the recipients: the company donated to Magen David Adom, Israel's national emergency medical service; to ZAKA, the volunteer body that recovers and identifies the dead; to the Lev Echad association, which works for residents of the Gaza-border communities; and to associations that support combat units in the Israel Defense Forces. The same report says CyberArk was funding travel by relatives of hostages held in Gaza to European capitals in order to raise awareness and influence world leaders, and that the company had set up a managed volunteering desk through which staff sign up for requests raised by employees and by outside volunteering organisations, with dozens of volunteering actions carried out since the fighting began. In a follow-up report on February 12, 2024 the company gave the same general description of its wartime giving (מתחילת המלחמה, סייברארק מרכזת מאמצים רבים בסיוע במישור הלאומי, הן באמצעות תרומות והן באמצעות התנדבות משמעותית של עובדיה) and that report adds that at the company's US headquarters the Israeli flag always flies alongside the American one, which it presents as the mark of "a proud Israeli company". Attribution note: no amount and no date for any individual donation was disclosed. The money for combat units went to associations that support them, not to the Israeli military itself. The volunteering, and the fundraising and donation of equipment described in the same article as the work of Israeli employees living abroad, are acts of employees rather than of the corporation. Both reports are from ICE, so this is one outlet twice rather than two independent witnesses. This entry replaces an earlier version of it which recorded that no recipient had been named.
Employee support2024-10-30—CyberArk employees in Israel called up for military reserve duty, and their families
While recruiting about 100 new staff for its Petah Tikva and Be'er Sheva centres in October 2024, CyberArk described a company-funded programme for employees returning from reserve duty: workshops for the returning employees and their families, and training sessions for managers on reintegrating and supporting them. In the earlier ICE report the head of HR, Gili Shiloni, said the recruitment team kept lists of reservists whose hiring processes had been interrupted and was re-contacting them. Attribution note: this is internal corporate support for the company's own Israeli employees and their families, not a payment or donation to the Israeli military or to any Israeli state body.
Donation2025-06-11—"Beit AI", a technology education centre in Nahariya, and the "Imagination Lab" at the Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council, run with the Athena Fund
Globes reported on June 11, 2025 that CyberArk had launched, together with the philanthropist Raya Strauss Ben Dror, technology-based impact ventures for the rehabilitation of the Western Galilee, at a combined outlay of about NIS 4 million. The first is a technological education centre in Nahariya called "Beit AI", intended to train a new generation of cyber and artificial-intelligence workers in the Galilee, which was to begin as a pilot in September 2025. The second is the "Imagination Lab" at the Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council, run together with the Athena Fund: an immersive room in which lesson plans and other content are projected onto the walls and the floor to give the people inside a virtual-reality experience without headsets, to be used among other things as an educational and therapeutic space for coping with post-traumatic stress and building personal resilience. Globes says the reasoning behind the move was that many young people in the Galilee no longer see their future in the region after the war. Gil Rappaport, head of CyberArk Israel, said: "We believe in the power of technological education as a social and economic bridge, and that is why we chose to help the Galilee through investment in educational infrastructure." The launch photograph shows Strauss Ben Dror with the mayor of Nahariya, Ronen Marelly, and Rappaport. Attribution note: the figure of about NIS 4 million is the joint outlay of CyberArk and Raya Strauss Ben Dror, a private philanthropist; CyberArk's own share was not disclosed, so no amount is recorded in the amount field on this row and the shekel figure is stated here instead. Globes is the only outlet found to have reported it.
One source
Acquisition2026-02-11$25,000,000,000Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (buyer) — CyberArk Software Ltd. shareholders (sellers)
Palo Alto Networks completed its acquisition of CyberArk on February 11, 2026, in a deal announced on July 30, 2025 and valued at about $25 billion — the second-largest transaction in cybersecurity history and, at the time of announcement, the second-biggest exit ever for an Israeli company, in both cases behind Google's $32 billion purchase of Wiz. CyberArk shareholders received $45.00 in cash plus 2.2005 Palo Alto Networks shares for each ordinary share. Palo Alto Networks said it would pursue a secondary listing on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the ticker CYBR and would consolidate its Israeli R&D centre — already its largest outside Silicon Valley — as a primary global innovation hub, building on "CyberArk's heritage and Israel's position as a global cybersecurity powerhouse." CyberArk deregistered from the SEC in February 2026. Attribution note: CyberArk is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the American company Palo Alto Networks; every decision recorded on this page before February 11, 2026 was that of an independent Israeli company and is not attributable to Palo Alto Networks, and Palo Alto Networks' own record is documented separately.

Frequently asked questions

Did CyberArk donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?

We have no records of cash donations, but CyberArk has documented support of other kinds (Operations in Israel, Donation, Sponsorship, In-kind support, Public statement, Employee support, Acquisition). 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. 17 distinct sources are cited for CyberArk. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.

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Record last updated: 2026-09-26

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