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Does Imperva support Israel?

Business presence documentedupdated 2026-09-26

Imperva 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.

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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 records

20022006201020142018202220262002 — Operations in Israel: Israel (founding site, Tel Aviv and Rehovot development centre, jobs)Operations in Israel20022014-02 — Acquisition: Skyfence, an Israeli start-up, and the remaining shareholders of Incapsula, Imperva's Israeli subsidiaryAcquisition2014-022023-12 — Acquisition: Thoma Bravo and other Imperva shareholders (sellers); Thales S.A. of France (buyer)Acquisition2023-122025-08 — Partnership: Tel Aviv University — the Deepness-Lab at the Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI, and the university's cyber centrePartnership2025-082025-11 — Operations in Israel: Israel (the Israeli development, research, support and product site, now inside Thales's cyber division)Operations in Israel2025-112026 — Operations in Israel: Israeli universities and community organisations (volunteering programme, no cash amounts disclosed)Operations in Israel2026

Documented records

TypeDateAmountRecipientSources
Operations in Israel2002—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.
Acquisition2014-02-07—Skyfence, an Israeli start-up, and the remaining shareholders of Incapsula, Imperva's Israeli subsidiary
Geektime reported on 7 February 2014 that Imperva had announced the acquisition of Skyfence, an Israeli start-up founded in 2012, together with its intention to buy all the shares of Incapsula, the Israeli subsidiary Imperva itself set up in 2009 and which had operated under Imperva from the start. The report states that the amounts of both acquisitions were not disclosed. In the same announcement Imperva said it had acquired the technology of the American company Tomium Software. Shlomo Kramer, Imperva's chief executive at the time, said the strategy behind the two deals was very similar: Incapsula had been founded four years earlier because the company expected cloud services to change internet security, and Skyfence was bought because it expected in-house SaaS software to change data-centre security. Attribution note: these are corporate purchases of Israeli technology companies — commerce, not giving. No charity received money, no sum was published, and the Amount column therefore stays blank. The live Geektime page blocks scripted access, so the article was read in the Internet Archive capture of 4 March 2014.
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Acquisition2023-12-04$3,600,000,000Thoma 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.
Partnership2025-08-14—Tel Aviv University — the Deepness-Lab at the Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI, and the university's cyber centre
Israel Defense reported on 14 August 2025 that a research collaboration between Tel Aviv University researchers and Imperva had uncovered a new weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol, named MadeYouReset, which makes a server cancel its own connections in response to requests that look legitimate and so enables large-scale denial-of-service attacks — a different mechanism from the Rapid Reset attack published in 2023. The work was led by Gal Bar Nahum, a master's student, and Prof. Anat Bremler-Barr of the Deepness-Lab in the Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI at Tel Aviv University, with Dr Yaniv Harel of the university's cyber centre; Bar Menachem and Nadav Avital took part for Imperva. The report says the collaboration covers research into network technology and information security, and that Imperva supplies professional guidance and resources so the researchers can widen their work and bring their findings to the international security community. Attribution note: this is a joint industry-academia research relationship from which Imperva also benefits, recorded here as a partnership rather than a donation or an in-kind gift. No sum was reported and none is claimed. It is a dated, reported instance of the academic outreach that Imperva's own Dun's 100 profile describes only in general terms.
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Operations in Israel2025-11-02—Israel (the Israeli development, research, support and product site, now inside Thales's cyber division)
Calcalist reported on 2 November 2025 that Moshe Lipsker, who had run Imperva's Israeli operations for seven years, was stepping down as the Thales-Imperva merger was completed, and that his job was being split in two: Tal Tikotzky, VP of development, would lead the development and innovation centre in Israel, and Einat Laham Levnat, VP of HR, would manage the Israeli site, covering human resources, site operations and organisational culture. Both report directly to Thales's global management, and further Thales roles — VP product, VP customer support and VP sales — sit at the Israeli site. Calcalist described the change as the end of a planned organisational stage, after about two years of gradual integration of the Israeli teams and units into Thales's management structure, with no change in the scope of activity, the work plans or the headcount, and reported that the Israeli site is the largest and most central site inside Thales's global cyber division, holding development, research, customer support and product. Attribution note: these are corporate operations and appointments inside a French-owned group, not support for Israel and not a payment to any Israeli organisation. Calcalist blocks scripted access, so the article was read in the Internet Archive capture of 12 December 2025.
Operations in Israel2026—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.
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Frequently asked questions

Did Imperva 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, Acquisition, Partnership), 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. 10 distinct sources are cited for Imperva. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.

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Record last updated: 2026-09-26

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