Does NVIDIA support Israel?

NVIDIA employees worldwide raised $5 million for humanitarian relief nonprofits after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel; NVIDIA matched and expanded the total to $10 million, for a combined corporate-and-employee total of $15 million — the largest single fundraising campaign in company history. Funds went to eight nonprofits chosen by employees, including Israel-focused organizations (Magen David Adom, United Hatzalah, Zaka, Jewish Agency for Israel) and broader war-relief groups (Doctors Without Borders, World Central Kitchen, IsraAID); NVIDIA's own foundation page describes the effort as aiding both Israeli and Gazan civilians. Note: figure aggregates corporate and employee giving.

On 18 December 2025 NVIDIA confirmed it had chosen Kiryat Tiv'on in northern Israel for a new campus built for up to 10,000 employees: 90 dunams (about 22.5 acres) of Israel Land Authority land carrying 160,000 square metres of buildings, with construction due to start in 2027 and first occupancy in 2031. Founder and CEO Jensen Huang said Israel “has become NVIDIA's second home” and called the project a reflection of the company's long-term commitment there. The land was allocated without a tender and at a reduced price: Geektime reported lease fees set at 51% of land value instead of the usual 91%, and Globes reported NVIDIA paying a discounted NIS 90 million for the plot plus about NIS 7.5 million a year in municipal taxes after a 50% discount from the local council. No amount is recorded here because the reported scale of the investment differs between sources — Geektime put it at billions of shekels over several years, Globes at several billion dollars. This is a commercial investment in the company's own operations, not a donation or aid.

NVIDIA confirmed on 23 February 2026 that it had bought Illumex, an Israeli enterprise-data startup founded in 2021 by Inna Tokarev Sela whose staff were to join NVIDIA's development centre in Israel. An NVIDIA spokesperson said the team's expertise in building ontologies would help accelerate libraries and models for agentic AI in large organisations. NVIDIA did not disclose a price and the reported figures conflict — Globes reported $75 million, Calcalist $60 million — so no amount is recorded here. Buying an Israeli company is commerce, not a donation or a statement of support.

NVIDIA inaugurated an enlarged research and development centre in the Gav Yam high-tech park in Be'er Sheva on 7 July 2026, completing a move out of its earlier site in the city. The new centre covers about 3,000 square metres — three times the previous space — opened with more than 150 employees, and the company said it plans to hire hundreds more in the coming years. Globes reported the building as an investment of tens of millions of shekels with rent of about NIS 2.5 million a year on a ten-year lease; NVIDIA published no figure, so none is recorded here. At the time NVIDIA employed more than 6,000 people in Israel across five R&D sites — its Yokneam headquarters plus Tel Aviv, Ra'anana, Tel Hai and Be'er Sheva — about three times its Israeli headcount when it acquired Mellanox in 2020, with more than 450 open positions. This is commercial expansion, not a donation or aid.