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Does Dell support Israel?
Dell Technologies Inc.
Yes — Dell has documented support for Israel on record. Every claim below links to its source.
Filed under: Tech companies · Companies that support Israel
Background
Dell's ties to Israel are primarily operational and commercial: a large R&D presence inherited mainly from the 2016 EMC acquisition, ongoing Israeli startup acquisitions and venture investments, and decades of computer-supply contracts with the Israeli government and military. Corporate action after October 7 took the form of employee donation-matching that included Israeli charities. Separately, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation — Michael Dell's personal foundation, which is explicitly not affiliated with Dell Technologies — mounted a large Israel relief effort; personal philanthropy should not be attributed to the corporation. Boycott campaigns — including Who Profits' own profile — cite a reported $150 million Israeli Defense Ministry server tender won by Dell in January 2023; Who Profits presents the figure with no source citation anywhere on its page, and no mainstream press, government tender record or filing corroborates it, so it is not included as verified evidence here. Who Profits also asserts EMC Israel "won" a $300 million IDF storage tender in 2010; primary Israeli press instead shows NetApp won that tender (beating EMC Israel and IBM Israel), valued at about $100 million/NIS 360 million, so this claim is rejected too.
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation — Israel (official) Who Profits (corporate profile) Dell Technologies Israel R&D Site (official)
Timeline of documented support
Documented support
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government contract | 2006-05 | — | Israel Defense Forces (via Israeli Ministry of Defense tender) Won one of the Israeli army's biggest computer tenders: supplying 50,000 desktop computers over three years, valued by industry sources at roughly $30-35 million. The same day, Dell was named one of three winners (with HP and Acer) of a separate Israeli government desktop/laptop tender. | |
| Operations in Israel | 2006 | — | Dell Technologies Israel R&D Site (Herzliya, Haifa, Beer Sheva) Operates a major Israel R&D operation founded in 2006 and built up through more than ten Israeli startup acquisitions totaling over $1 billion (via EMC, later Dell EMC). It grew to more than 1,200 employees across four centers working on storage, AI, cloud, cybersecurity and data science; today Dell lists R&D sites in Herzliya (Glil Yam), Haifa and Beer Sheva. | |
| Operations in Israel | 2008-01 | — | Dell customers in Israel (served via Dell's Ireland support centre; repairs by Yael Software and Systems) Overhauled its Israeli service and support setup: on 22 January 2008 Dell announced that business and consumer customers in Israel would be served directly through its support centre in Ireland, which covers all of Europe, rather than through authorised local distributors, with Yael Software and Systems carrying out repairs. TheMarker described it as the Israeli rollout of a worldwide Dell service programme whose set-up cost it put at $250 million — a figure for the global programme, not for Israel, so no amount is recorded on this row. | One source |
| Acquisition | 2016-09 | — | EMC Corporation (including its Israel Center of Excellence) Completed the roughly $67 billion acquisition of EMC (reported at up to $74 billion at announcement), one of the largest tech mergers ever. The deal made Dell the owner of EMC's Israeli operations — a Center of Excellence employing over 1,200 people — and of subsidiary EMC Israel Advanced Information Technologies. | |
| Acquisition | 2023-01 | — | Cloudify (Israeli cloud-orchestration startup) Acquired Israeli cloud/DevOps orchestration startup Cloudify in a deal reported at up to $100 million, confirmed by Dell after SEC share-award filings for Cloudify employees surfaced. | |
| Investment / program | 2023-04 | $12,000,000 | Quantum Source (Israeli photonic quantum computing startup) Dell Technologies Capital, the company's venture arm with an office in Herzliya Pituach, injected $12 million into Israeli startup Quantum Source's extended $27 million seed round. DTC has backed dozens of Israeli startups over the past decade, including VAST Data, Redis, JFrog, Otonomo and Pecan. | |
| Employee donation match | 2023-10 | — | Magen David Adom (Israel), Matan-United Way Israel, Save the Children International, Doctors Without Borders After the October 7 attacks, Dell Technologies (the corporation) matched employee donations to a set of charities that included Israeli organizations Magen David Adom and Matan-United Way Israel alongside international relief groups; founder and CEO Michael Dell publicly pledged support for the company's Israel-based team. | One source |
| Donation | 2023-10 | — | American Friends of Magen David Adom, Friends of United Hatzalah, JDC, IsraAID, ZAKA, Soroka, Barzilai and Sheba medical centers, Jewish Agency, AFNATAL The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation — the personal philanthropic foundation of founder/CEO Michael Dell and his wife, which states it is not affiliated with Dell Technologies — funded emergency medical care, humanitarian aid and mental-health support reaching more than 50,000 Israeli families after October 7, through ten Israeli and Israel-linked relief organizations. This is personal/foundation giving, not a corporate donation. | |
| Sponsorship | 2024-07 | — | "IT for IDF" conference (Rishon LeZion, Israel) Was among the multinational companies (with Nokia and Canon) present at the July 10, 2024 "IT for IDF" conference on information and communications technology for the Israeli military, held during the Gaza war; Who Profits describes Dell as a sponsor and participant of the event. | |
| Acquisition | 2025-12 | $120,000,000 | Dataloop Ltd. (Israeli AI data-management startup, Herzliya) Bought Israeli AI data-management startup Dataloop, based in Herzliya and employing dozens of people there, for about $120 million in an all-cash deal. Calcalist reported the price on 17 December 2025 from its own sources and Geektime carried it the next day; Dell issued no press release. Dell's own FY2026 subsidiary list, filed with the SEC on 16 March 2026, records Dataloop Ltd. (Israel) as a Dell subsidiary, which confirms the purchase closed. Founded in 2017, Dataloop labels and manages the unstructured data used to train AI models and is being folded into Dell's infrastructure division. |
Frequently asked questions
Did Dell donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
We have no records of cash donations, but Dell has documented support of other kinds (Government contract, Operations in Israel, Acquisition, Investment / program, Employee donation match, Donation, Sponsorship). 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. 18 distinct sources are cited for Dell. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-26
- Haaretz haaretz.com
- Who Profits (corporate profile) whoprofits.org
- Dell Technologies Israel R&D Site (official) dell.com
- CTech (Calcalist) calcalistech.com
- TheMarker (Hebrew) themarker.com
- Times of Israel timesofisrael.com
- TechCrunch techcrunch.com
- CTech (Calcalist) calcalistech.com
- optics.org optics.org
- CTech (Calcalist) calcalistech.com
- Startup Nation Finder (DTC Israeli portfolio) finder.startupnationcentral.org
- Michael Dell (LinkedIn, October 2023) linkedin.com
- Michael & Susan Dell Foundation — Israel relief (official) dell.org
- Michael & Susan Dell Foundation — Israel (official) dell.org
- The Intercept theintercept.com
- Calcalist (Hebrew) calcalist.co.il
- Geektime (Hebrew, Wayback capture 2026-01-05) web.archive.org
- Dell Technologies FY2026 10-K, Exhibit 21.1 subsidiary list (SEC) sec.gov