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Does GE HealthCare support Israel?
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GE HealthCare does business in Israel — we found records of its operations there, but no record of donations, aid, or a public statement of support. Every claim below links to its source.
Filed under: Pharma & healthcare companies · Tech companies · Companies that support Israel
Background
GE HealthCare Technologies became an independent, separately listed company on 4 January 2023, when General Electric spun off its healthcare arm; GE completed its three-way split in April 2024, with the remaining parent renamed GE Aerospace. The Israeli healthcare sites recorded here were built under the unified General Electric — beginning with the 1998 purchase of Elscint's MRI and nuclear-medicine businesses in Haifa — and now belong to GE HealthCare, while GE's military engine relationships with Israel sit with GE Aerospace and are documented on that company's page. The GE Foundation's $500,000 October 2023 Red Cross grant for relief in Israel and Gaza was made by General Electric's foundation, not by GE HealthCare, and is recorded on the General Electric page. This pass found no separate GE HealthCare donation to Israeli causes after the spin-off.
CNBC Medtech Insight / Citeline (Elscint deal) Israel Innovation Authority
Timeline of documented records
Documented records
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations in Israel | 1998 | — | GE HealthCare Israel (Tirat Carmel, Haifa, Rehovot, Tel Aviv area) GE HealthCare's Israeli arm dates to 1998, when GE Medical Systems bought the MRI and nuclear-medicine businesses of Haifa's Elscint from Elbit Medical Imaging along with Diasonics Vingmed Ultrasound. Company data put the Israeli operation at roughly 400 employees across four sites in 2018 and about 590 more recently, developing ultrasound (the Vivid line), MRI and molecular-imaging products at Tirat Carmel, Haifa and Rehovot. Attribution note: these sites were built under General Electric; they transferred to the independent GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. when it was spun off in January 2023, and GE HealthCare continues to recruit engineers at Tirat Carmel and Haifa. | |
| Operations in Israel | 2016-12-19 | — | GE Healthcare Israel — ultrasound development centre, Life Sciences Park, Haifa TheMarker reported on 19 December 2016 that GE Healthcare — then General Electric's healthcare division — would open a development centre for its ultrasound business at the Life Sciences Park in southern Haifa, leasing three floors totalling 4,000 square metres in the park's first building and moving about 200 employees there from Tirat Carmel, with the relocation planned for the first half of 2017 and an estimated 40 further hires in software, algorithms and data. The paper put the division's Israeli headcount at 380 across Tirat Carmel, Tel Aviv, Herzliya and Rehovot, and reported that it had also bought the ventilator maker Versmed of Kadima in 2008 and Orbotech's nuclear-medicine business in 2011. This is a commercial lease and hiring plan, not a donation, and no sum paid by the company is stated: the NIS 100 million build cost and the NIS 5.6 million of annual rent named in the article belong to the park's owners, the Haifa Economic Corporation and Mivne Industry, not to GE. Attribution note: the announcement was General Electric's, and the site passed to the independent GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. at the January 2023 spin-off. | |
| Partnership | 2018-07-18 | $13,800,000 | Israel Innovation Authority (support for a GE Healthcare international development centre in Israel) The Israel Innovation Authority selected GE Healthcare — alongside Medtronic and Change Healthcare — for its multinational R&D centre programme, awarding GE Healthcare about NIS 50 million (roughly $13.8 million) over six years to expand an imaging-focused international development centre in Israel. Globes reported in February 2020 that the NIS 50 million grant was going to expand GE's Rehovot centre. This is Israeli state co-funding of a corporate R&D site, not a donation by the company. | |
| Investment / program | 2022-05-12 | $50,000,000 | Pulsenmore Ltd. (Omer, Israel) GE Healthcare agreed to invest up to $50 million in Israeli start-up Pulsenmore, maker of a home ultrasound device for pregnancy monitoring, and took exclusive distribution rights for the technology in most markets outside Israel. The deal was GE's entry into the home-ultrasound segment; it was signed under General Electric less than a year before the GE HealthCare spin-off and the relationship sits with GE HealthCare today. |
Frequently asked questions
Did GE HealthCare donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
We have no records of donations. What is on record is commercial activity in Israel (Operations in Israel, Partnership, Investment / program), which is not the same as support — 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. 11 distinct sources are cited for GE HealthCare. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-26
- IVC Research Center — GE Healthcare Israel ivc-online.com
- Israel Innovation Authority innovationisrael.org.il
- GE HealthCare careers (Haifa job search results) careers.gehealthcare.com
- TheMarker (Ruti Levy, 19 December 2016) themarker.com
- TheMarker — archived copy of the same article (Wayback, 20 December 2016) web.archive.org
- MassDevice massdevice.com
- Globes en.globes.co.il
- GE HealthCare (press release) gehealthcare.com
- Pulsenmore pulsenmore.com
- CNBC cnbc.com
- Medtech Insight / Citeline (Elscint deal) insights.citeline.com