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Does Moovit support Israel?
Yes — Moovit has documented support for Israel on record. Every claim below links to its source.
Filed under: Tech companies · Companies that support Israel
Background
Moovit is a brand page and the ownership chain is the point. The company was founded in Israel in 2012 as Tranzmate by Nir Erez, Roy Bick and Yaron Evron, is still run from Ness Ziona, and is the default public-transport app for Israeli riders, handling fare payment under the transport ministry's post-Rav-Kav reform. Since May 2020 it has been owned by Intel, which paid about $900 million for it, and since 2022 it has sat inside Mobileye — itself Jerusalem-founded and majority-owned by Intel — after Mobileye's Nasdaq listing. That means nothing on this page should be read as an act of Intel: Intel's own Israeli record, including the Kiryat Gat fabrication plants and the $3.2 billion Israeli government grant tied to the Fab 38 expansion, is documented on the Intel page, and Mobileye's wartime giving — a NIS 5 million corporate donation to organisations helping evacuees in October 2023 — is documented on the Mobileye page. What is documented for Moovit itself is operational: an Israeli headquarters and workforce, and two civilian-facing wartime measures in March 2026, when it put the state's public bomb-shelter database on its map and became one of the two channels through which Israelis whose homes were destroyed register for free nationwide public transport. This pass found no donation, sponsorship, relief fund or political contribution by Moovit as a brand, and Moovit has no foundation, no SEC registration and no political action committee of its own.
Moovit — About Intel — Intel acquires Moovit to accelerate Mobileye's mobility-as-a-service offering Ynet — At the push of a button: how to know where the nearest shelter is in real time
Timeline of documented support
Documented support
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations in Israel | 2012 | — | State of Israel (Ness Ziona headquarters, Israeli engineering employment, Israeli public-transport riders) Moovit was founded in Israel in 2012 under the name Tranzmate by Nir Erez, Roy Bick and Yaron Evron, and its headquarters have remained in Ness Ziona, Israel, with international offices in Brazil, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The company says it serves about 1.7 billion users across 3,500 cities in 112 countries and 45 languages, processing roughly six billion anonymous data points a day with the help of some 875,000 volunteer local editors. Israel is a core market rather than an incidental one: Moovit is the everyday transit app for Israeli bus, train and light-rail riders and handles in-app fare payment under the Israeli transport ministry's "Transport Justice" reform that replaced the Rav-Kav card. Attribution note: this is the brand's own footprint — jobs, taxes and a service used inside Israel — not a donation to any Israeli body. | |
| Acquisition | 2020-05-04 | $900,000,000 | Moovit's Israeli founders and shareholders (sellers); Intel Corporation (buyer) Intel announced on May 4, 2020 that it had acquired Moovit for approximately $900 million ($840 million net of Intel Capital's existing equity gain), folding the Israeli company into its Israeli subsidiary Mobileye's mobility-as-a-service plans; Moovit's own site now describes it as "part of Mobileye (Nasdaq: MBLY)" since 2022, when Mobileye was floated on Nasdaq with Intel retaining majority control. Attribution note: the buyer was Intel and the acquisition is recorded on Intel's page as Intel's act; it appears here because it explains the chain of ownership — Moovit is a subsidiary of Mobileye, which is majority-owned by Intel. Anything Moovit has done since 2020 is the act of a subsidiary, and Intel's own Israeli record — the Kiryat Gat fabs, the Fab 38 expansion and the Israeli government grants attached to it — belongs on the Intel page, not here. | |
| Operations in Israel | 2026-03-10 | — | Public-transport users in Israel seeking protected spaces during rocket alerts Moovit launched a feature that plots Israel's public bomb shelters directly on the map inside its app, drawing the locations from the Israeli government Digital Administration's public shelter database; users open the "stations" screen to see the shelters around them, or enter an address to check which shelters are near a destination before setting out. Ziv Kaberti, Moovit's VP of Product, said the decision to make shelter locations accessible inside Moovit reflects an understanding that public transport has to answer passengers' personal-security needs so that they can plan a journey with peace of mind. The company announced the feature on its own Israeli channels the same week. Attribution note: this is a civilian safety feature built on data the Israeli state publishes openly; no payment, donation or contract with any Israeli authority is disclosed, and the acting party is the Moovit brand, a Mobileye subsidiary, not Intel. | |
| Partnership | 2026-03 | — | Israeli Ministry of Transport programme for residents whose homes were damaged and made uninhabitable Under a government decision reported alongside the shelter feature, Israelis whose homes were damaged and rendered uninhabitable were granted free travel on public transport nationwide, and Moovit is one of the two apps — the other being Pango — through which those affected register for the entitlement, with approval issued within about 48 hours and the benefit running to March 25. Ynet reported the Transport Ministry allocated roughly NIS 500,000 to the programme. Attribution note: the money and the entitlement are the Israeli state's, not Moovit's; what Moovit contributed is the registration and ticketing channel that makes the state benefit usable. No fee paid to Moovit for this role was disclosed, so no amount is attributed to the company. |
Frequently asked questions
Did Moovit donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
We have no records of cash donations, but Moovit has documented support of other kinds (Operations in Israel, Acquisition, Partnership). 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 Moovit. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-07-30
- Moovit — About moovit.com
- Wikipedia — Moovit en.wikipedia.org
- Intel — Intel acquires Moovit to accelerate Mobileye's mobility-as-a-service offering intc.com
- Ynet — At the push of a button: how to know where the nearest shelter is in real time ynet.co.il
- Moovit Israel — official Facebook announcement of public shelters on the map facebook.com