Does Kornit support Israel?

Israeli company through and through: founded in Israel in 2002 by veterans of the country's digital-printing industry (alumni of Scitex and HP's printing units), with global headquarters in Rosh Ha'ayin — its press releases carry a 'Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel' dateline — and an ink production plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel, that makes the CMYK and white inks for its worldwide installed base of textile-printing systems. Listed on Nasdaq (KRNT) since its 2015 IPO, with 700+ employees.

Kornit Digital was the title sponsor and host of Israel's Tel Aviv fashion week, which ran as “Kornit Fashion Week Tel Aviv” in 2021 and 2022 and as “Kornit FAC Fashion Week Tel Aviv” in 2023. The company's own blog says Kornit chose to host the 28 March – 1 April 2021 edition, presenting 40 Israeli designers, with the event's founder Motty Reif and the model Bar Refaeli as co-hosts and the event televised on Israel's Channel 13, and gives as one reason: “We're from Tel Aviv, and this event provided us an opportunity to really make a difference in our own community.” The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's press release of 14 March 2022 lists Kornit Digital among the partners of Kornit Fashion Week Tel Aviv 2022 — held 3–6 April 2022 at Tel Aviv Port with 24 shows and more than 80 Israeli designers — alongside the ministry itself, the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Israel Export Institute, the Manufacturers Association of Israel and the port, and quotes Reif on continuing “with our partner Kornit Digital”; the ministries' participation is their own, not Kornit's money. ynet reported on 19 February 2023 that the 2023 edition, opening 19 March 2023, still carried the company's name. This is a corporate marketing sponsorship rather than a donation: none of these sources states a sum, ynet notes that Tel Aviv fashion week is Reif's private commercial initiative and not an industry body's, and Kornit ran sister Kornit Fashion Week editions in Los Angeles as well.

On the Q3 2023 earnings call, CEO Ronen Samuel framed the war from Israel's side — 'more than 1,500 people were slaughtered, many of them children and elderly, and more than 250 people were hostages' — disclosed that the families of 10 Kornit employees were directly impacted by the October 7 attack and that other employees were serving in the army (trade-press coverage of the company put close to 70 employees on IDF reserve duty at Israel's borders), and said the wellbeing of employees and 'supporting the community of the Israeli employees and the families' was a primary focus. He stressed that the Israeli ink plant remained 'in full operation'; the results release stated that company operations 'have not been materially impacted by the security situation in Israel.' Statements made by the CEO on behalf of the company; the reserve call-ups are employees' state-mandated military service.