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Does Forter support Israel?

Support documentedupdated 2026-09-26

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

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Background

Forter is an Israeli-founded fraud-prevention company run from New York. Michael Reitblat, Liron Damri and Alon Shemesh started it in Tel Aviv in 2013 after working together at Fraud Sciences — the Israeli company PayPal bought in 2008 — and after service in the Israeli military’s intelligence corps; its headquarters is at 575 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and it keeps offices in Denver, Tel Aviv, London and Singapore. It has raised about $525 million in total, reached a $3 billion valuation in a $300 million round in May 2021 and has since been reported to be preparing a listing at a targeted $5 billion. The answer to the question this page asks comes from Hebrew coverage rather than English. Calcalist reported on 17 December 2023 that after the 7 October 2023 attack Forter made substantial donations to aid organisations, the Israeli security forces, non-governmental organisations and evacuated families; lodged soldiers at its Tel Aviv offices from the start of the war; organised and hosted a wedding there; ran a Hanukkah candle-lighting event at the David InterContinental hotel for about 60 children evacuated mainly from kibbutzim Zimrat and Gvaram; and, through employees who gave up accrued vacation days and whole days of volunteering, furnished and stocked apartments in Yavne that housed evacuated families for a year — the rent on those apartments was paid by Bareket Iveco, not by Forter. No sums were published, and that single report is the only account of any of it: it is bylined “in cooperation with Tech On Duty”, a series about Israeli technology companies’ wartime volunteering, so it should be read as Forter’s own account carried by Calcalist rather than as independent verification. Nothing on this was found in English or Arabic, Forter’s own website and blog carry no post about it, and JLens’s June 2025 survey of companies that stepped up for Israel after October 7 does not mention the company. Forter does not appear on the BDS movement’s consumer-boycott target lists, which concentrate on retail brands rather than business-to-business software.

Forter — About us Calcalist, 17 December 2023 (bylined “in cooperation with Tech On Duty”) — the only account of Forter’s wartime giving, read via the Internet Archive TechCrunch — Forter raises $300M on a $3B valuation to combat e-commerce fraud Globes — Israeli startup Forter plans IPO at $5b valuation, reports JLens — When Crisis Strikes: how global companies stepped up to support Israel after October 7 (Forter absent)

Timeline of documented support

2013201520172019202120232013 — Operations in Israel: Israel (Tel Aviv founding site and R&D office, jobs)Operations in Israel20132021-05 — Investment / program: Forter (the Israeli-founded company receiving the capital), not an Israeli charity or state bodyInvestment / program2021-052023-12 — Donation: Aid organisations, the Israeli security forces, non-governmental organisations and evacuated families — none of them named individually in the reportDonation2023-122023-12 — In-kind support: Israeli soldiers lodged at Forter’s Tel Aviv offices, a couple whose wedding was held there, and about 60 children evacuated from kibbutzim Zimrat and GvaramIn-kind support2023-122023-12 — Employee support: Families evacuated from their homes and housed in Yavne, through the Tomchim BaBayit initiative, the Israeli Leadership Forum (ILF), Oberwolf and Bareket IvecoEmployee support2023-12

Documented support

TypeDateAmountRecipientSources
Operations in Israel2013—Israel (Tel Aviv founding site and R&D office, jobs)
Forter was founded in Tel Aviv in 2013 by Michael Reitblat, Liron Damri and Alon Shemesh. Reitblat and Damri were childhood friends who had worked together as engineers at Fraud Sciences, the Israeli fraud-detection company PayPal bought in 2008, and before that the founders served in the intelligence corps of the Israeli military. The company builds automated fraud prevention, payment optimisation, account protection and dispute management for online commerce. Its headquarters is at 575 Fifth Avenue in New York, and it lists offices in Denver, Tel Aviv, London and Singapore. Attribution note: Forter is an Israeli-founded company with a New York headquarters and a continuing Tel Aviv office. The founders' military intelligence service is part of the standard published account of their background; it is biography, not evidence that the company works for the Israeli state, and no contract, grant or other state relationship is documented — though Calcalist reports that the company donated to the Israeli security forces after the 7 October 2023 attack, which is recorded in its own row here. Forter does not publish a breakdown of Israeli versus other headcount, so no such figure is claimed here.
Donation2023-12—Aid organisations, the Israeli security forces, non-governmental organisations and evacuated families — none of them named individually in the report
Calcalist reported on 17 December 2023 that Forter had given substantial donations to aid organisations, the Israeli security forces, non-governmental organisations and evacuated families, as part of a wider set of relief activities the company was running after the 7 October 2023 attack. The report adds that employees donated accrued vacation days and that this allowed Forter to give more and to increase its monetary donations to the various organisations. Attribution: this row is the company’s own giving, kept separate from the employees’ contributions, which have their own row here. Calcalist names no recipient organisation and publishes no figure, so no amount is recorded. Sourcing: the piece is bylined “in cooperation with Tech On Duty”, a series about Israeli technology companies’ wartime volunteering, and is written by Lior Avishar, so it reads as Forter’s own account of its giving carried by an Israeli business daily rather than as independent reporting. It is the only account of this found in any language, and the two links below are that one article — the live page and the Internet Archive copy that was actually read.
In-kind support2023-12—Israeli soldiers lodged at Forter’s Tel Aviv offices, a couple whose wedding was held there, and about 60 children evacuated from kibbutzim Zimrat and Gvaram
The same Calcalist report of 17 December 2023 describes aid Forter gave in kind, out of its own premises. Soldiers were lodged at the company’s Tel Aviv offices from the start of the war until the date of publication, and the company organised and hosted a wedding at those offices. During Hanukkah it ran a candle-lighting event at the David InterContinental hotel for about 60 children, mostly from kibbutzim Zimrat and Gvaram, who were staying in different hotels away from their friends; the programme included a skateboard assembly and decorating workshop from which each child took their work home, and the mentalist Nevo Abutbul appeared. No cost is disclosed for any of it, so the amount column stays empty. Same single source and same caveat as the donation row: one Calcalist piece, bylined “in cooperation with Tech On Duty”, is the only account of these events, and the two links are that one article.
Employee support2023-12—Families evacuated from their homes and housed in Yavne, through the Tomchim BaBayit initiative, the Israeli Leadership Forum (ILF), Oberwolf and Bareket Iveco
In the evacuee-housing project that Calcalist credits to Forter, the money and the labour came from the employees rather than from the company’s treasury, and the rent came from somebody else again. Forter worked with Rinat Greenberg of the Tomchim BaBayit initiative, the Israeli Leadership Forum (ILF), Oberwolf and Bareket Iveco to put families evacuated from their homes into apartments in Yavne for a year, furnished and equipped down to groceries. Bareket Iveco paid a full year’s rent for those families. Forter’s employees donated their accrued vacation days to fund the evacuees’ basic needs — furniture and household goods — and spent whole days volunteering in the apartments, moving furniture in and fitting them out, and staff contacted the organisations directly to reach further families. Attribution: donated leave is the employees’ own entitlement, not a corporate matching programme, and the report gives no figure for what it raised. Sourcing as above: the one Calcalist piece of 17 December 2023, bylined “in cooperation with Tech On Duty”, is the only account, and the two links are that same article.
Investment / program2021-05-25$300,000,000Forter (the Israeli-founded company receiving the capital), not an Israeli charity or state body
On May 25, 2021 Forter announced a $300 million Series F round that valued it at $3 billion, nearly tripling the valuation set six months earlier and taking its total funding to around $525 million from backers including Sequoia Capital, Scale Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, March Capital Partners and Salesforce Ventures. Globes later reported that the company was preparing an initial public offering at a targeted $5 billion valuation. Attribution note: this is investment capital flowing into an Israeli-founded company, which funds its Israeli engineering jobs among others. It is not a donation by Forter to anyone, and no part of it went to any Israeli institution.

Frequently asked questions

Did Forter donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?

We have no records of cash donations, but Forter has documented support of other kinds (Operations in Israel, Donation, In-kind support, Employee support, Investment / program). 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 Forter. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.

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Record last updated: 2026-09-26

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