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Does Imperva support Israel?
Yes — Imperva has documented support for Israel on record. Every claim below links to its source.
Filed under: Tech companies · Companies that support Israel
Background
Imperva's story is one of an Israeli origin that outlived its Israeli ownership. Shlomo Kramer, who had co-founded Check Point, started it in Israel in 2002 with Amichai Shulman and Mickey Boodaei under the name WebCohort; the founders are long gone and, as Globes reported in July 2023, hold no shares. What stayed is the engineering: an Israeli development centre of more than 500 people across Tel Aviv and Rehovot, more than a third of a roughly 1,400-strong workforce, under a corporate headquarters in San Mateo, California. Ownership passed to the American private-equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2019 and then, on December 4, 2023, to the French defence and technology group Thales in a roughly $3.6 billion purchase; Globes noted at the time that Israel would collect little tax from the sale because the seller was a US fund. The only Israeli community activity Imperva itself publicises is a staff benefit — three paid volunteering days a year through the Israeli platform Helpi — and educational outreach with the Technion and Tel Aviv University, with no named charity, sum or date. This pass found no documented corporate donation, employee-matching programme, in-kind contribution, reservist-support scheme or official company statement by Imperva relating to Israel after the October 7, 2023 attack. One caution worth recording: an article about an Israeli HR executive supporting staff during the war circulates alongside Imperva in search results, but the company in that article is Optimove, not Imperva, and it is not evidence about Imperva.
Wikipedia — Imperva Globes — Imperva's exit augurs poorer future for Israel Tax Authority Imperva — press release: Thales Completes the Acquisition of Imperva Dun's 100 — Imperva a Thales Company
Timeline of documented support
Documented support
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations in Israel | 2002 | — | Israel (founding site, Tel Aviv and Rehovot development centre, jobs) Imperva was founded in Israel in 2002 under the name WebCohort by three Israelis — Shlomo Kramer, who had co-founded Check Point in 1993, Amichai Shulman and Mickey Boodaei — and renamed Imperva in 2004. It makes application and data security software: web application firewalls, distributed-denial-of-service protection, database security and data masking. Its corporate headquarters is in San Mateo, California, and it had roughly 1,400 employees in 2023, but its largest engineering concentration has always been Israeli: the Israeli development centre spans offices at 125 Menachem Begin Street in Tel Aviv and 2 Pekeris Street in Rehovot and holds more than 500 people — more than a third of the global workforce, on Globes' reckoning at the time of the Thales sale. Attribution note: the founders left the company long ago and, as Globes reported in July 2023, hold no shares in it; nothing in Imperva's later corporate conduct should be attributed to them, and the Israeli connection now runs through the development centre rather than through ownership. | |
| Acquisition | 2023-12-04 | $3,600,000,000 | Thoma Bravo and other Imperva shareholders (sellers); Thales S.A. of France (buyer) The French defence and technology group Thales completed its acquisition of Imperva on December 4, 2023, in a deal announced in July 2023 and valued at about $3.6 billion. Thales bought the company from the American private-equity firm Thoma Bravo, which had taken Imperva private in 2019. Thales said the combination created a global cybersecurity leader with more than 5,800 cybersecurity specialists across 68 countries. Globes noted at the time of the announcement that Israel would see very little tax from the sale, because the selling party was a US fund with no Israeli presence, leaving only the option exercises of a small number of Israeli employees and executives subject to Israeli capital gains tax. Attribution note: the ownership chain matters. Imperva is Israeli in origin and in workforce, but it is today a subsidiary of a French listed company, was previously owned by an American private-equity firm, and its Israeli founders retain no stake. No part of this transaction was a payment to Israel or to any Israeli organisation. | |
| Operations in Israel | 2026 | — | Israeli universities and community organisations (volunteering programme, no cash amounts disclosed) Imperva's Israeli corporate profile, published on the Dun's 100 business register, states that the company's Israeli employees receive three paid volunteering days a year through a partnership with the Israeli volunteering platform Helpi, and that the Israeli site runs educational outreach with the Technion and Tel Aviv University. Attribution note: this is a staff benefit and an academic-outreach programme, not a donation. The profile names no charity, no sum and no date; it does not describe any wartime activity; and it is a company-supplied entry on a business directory, which is why it is recorded here as an operations item rather than as giving. The date shown is the date this pass verified the profile, not a start date for the programme. |
Frequently asked questions
Did Imperva donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
We have no records of cash donations, but Imperva has documented support of other kinds (Operations in Israel, 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. 5 distinct sources are cited for Imperva. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-07-30
- Wikipedia — Imperva en.wikipedia.org
- Globes — Imperva's exit augurs poorer future for Israel Tax Authority en.globes.co.il
- Dun's 100 — Imperva a Thales Company duns100.co.il
- Imperva — press release: Thales Completes the Acquisition of Imperva imperva.com
- Thoma Bravo — Thoma Bravo Completes Sale of Imperva to Thales thomabravo.com