Does Oracle support Israel?

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Oracle Israel held a recurring, multi-year vendor relationship with Israel's Ministry of Defense to supply and maintain enterprise database and ERP software. In February 2001 it won a five-year, over-100-million-shekel project to roll out Oracle Applications across the Israeli Air Force, the Ministry of Defense and the IDF, alongside a separate three-year, 60-million-shekel deal for database infrastructure supporting IDF computer units. In November 2003 the ministry and Oracle renewed a three-year framework agreement, industry sources put at about 70 million shekels, covering procurement and maintenance of all Oracle technology used by the IDF. In September 2006 the two sides signed another multi-year deal, reported at tens of millions of dollars, for IDF databases and Oracle's Fusion middleware. These are commercial vendor contracts with the Israeli government as customer, not donations.

Who Profits, an advocacy research centre, reports — citing government tenders and Freedom-of-Information responses it says it obtained but does not publish or link on its profile — that Oracle Israel's work for Israeli security bodies continued well beyond 2006: a Ministry of Defense licensing renewal it dates to 2015 at about 140 million shekels; Ministry of Defense support services it values at 250,000 shekels between October 2023 and June 2024; an August 2022 Israel Police maintenance contract it values at 880,000 shekels running to December 2025; and, in the occupied West Bank, Oracle server-support tenders (October-November 2024) for the Israeli Civil Administration's Palestinian-construction-monitoring system, continued use of an Oracle database in the 'Rotem-Reut' border-crossing platform deployed since 2006 at 25 crossings, and the 'Matash' work-permit system for Palestinian labourers. None of these specific figures or tenders could be independently verified from public documents in this pass; they are presented as Who Profits' own characterisation, not as separately confirmed facts.

In January 2024, during Israel's war with Hamas, Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz made the first of several wartime visits to Israel, meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and war-cabinet minister Benny Gantz; with Gallant she discussed how Oracle could assist Israel's security needs. At Calcalist's Tech TLV conference on 15 January 2024 she said 'we believe now is a very good time to be right here in Israel' and described Oracle as doubling down on its Israeli operations rather than pulling back. Separately, Oracle's Israel sales leadership told Ynet the company accepted the risk of losing customers over its position, framing corporate priority as 'the U.S., Israel, and then the rest of the world.' This is a statement of corporate policy and a leadership visit, not a donation or a government contract.

During the Gaza war, Oracle sent in-kind supplies to IDF soldiers, according to Ynet, which reported the company shipped equipment to troops without giving a figure. Who Profits puts one such shipment, in January 2024, at about seven tons of auxiliary equipment worth over half a million dollars for several elite units operating in Gaza; we could not independently verify that specific weight or dollar figure from a source outside Who Profits, so it is presented as Who Profits' characterisation.