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Does SolarEdge support Israel?

SolarEdge Technologies, Inc.

Support documentedupdated 2026-09-26

Yes — SolarEdge has documented support for Israel on record, including $1,000,000 in donations. Every claim below links to its source.

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Background

SolarEdge appears on boycott lists mainly because of what it is: an Israeli-founded company headquartered in Herzliya, with its R&D, its leadership and part of its manufacturing in Israel. Its documented giving inside Israel is educational and community philanthropy, disclosed by the company itself: a $1,000,000 commitment announced in 2020 and payable over ten years to a joint project with the Technion in memory of founder Guy Sella, the donated PEARL teaching laboratory, and one community solar installation a year. Since 2017 it has earmarked 0.1% of the previous year's consolidated net profit for donations, and it reported worldwide donations of $354,000 in 2022, $537,000 in 2023 and $150,870 in 2025. This research found no donation to the Israeli government, to the military or to a war-related charity; the company's 2023 report credits beating its own donation target to unnamed "ad-hoc donations to communities in need" in the fourth quarter of 2023, the quarter the war began. Through that war its documented record is operational — over 350 employees, 11% of its Israeli workforce in late 2023, serving IDF reserve duty while the company kept operating, which is the employees' state obligation rather than a corporate gift. One figure is often read as SolarEdge's own and is not: the campus being built for it at Glilot is Azrieli Group's project, which Azrieli estimates at NIS 990 million including the land, with SolarEdge as the fifteen-year tenant. The company has since gone through deep layoffs (900 jobs cut in January 2024, including 550 in Israel) driven by a collapse in solar demand, unrelated to the war.

SEC — SolarEdge DEF 14A proxy statement (filed 2023-04-21) SEC — SolarEdge DEF 14A proxy statement (filed 2026-04-23) SolarEdge Sustainability Report 2023 — Community Outreach (Wayback capture 2026-04-16; the live page has been removed) Globes — "What will become of SolarEdge's huge new campus?" (2024-07-15, Wayback capture; the live page blocks non-browser requests) Globes Times of Israel

Timeline of documented support

20062009201220152018202120242006 — Operations in Israel: Israel (headquarters, R&D and manufacturing)Operations in Israel20062015 — Government contract: Settlement solar projects in the Jordan Valley, occupied West Bank (Shdemot Mehola, Petza'el)Government contract20152020 — Donation: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Guy Sella Memorial Project)Donation20202022-12 — In-kind support: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (PEARL teaching laboratory)In-kind support2022-122023 — In-kind support: No2Violence women's shelter, central Israel (earlier: Manof youth village, northern Israel; later: Atid Raziel youth village)In-kind support20232023-11 — Operations in Israel: Israel (continued operations through the war; employees on IDF reserve duty)Operations in Israel2023-11

Documented support

TypeDateAmountRecipientSources
Donation2020$1,000,000Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Guy Sella Memorial Project)
In 2020, in memory of co-founder, chairman and CEO Guy Sella, SolarEdge announced a commitment of $1,000,000 to be invested over ten years in a joint SolarEdge-Technion educational and technological project; the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where Sella studied, committed to matching that sum, and the matching money is the Technion's rather than the company's. SolarEdge restates the commitment in its definitive SEC proxy statements, including the ones filed in April 2023 and April 2026, describing teaching labs to be named after Guy Sella, annual graduate research fellowships, biennial national energy student hackathons and visits for high-school students. The 2023 proxy records a $100,000 payment to the Technion during 2022 as part of this commitment, out of $354,000 the company donated to non-profit organizations that year; the 2026 proxy reports $150,870 of total donations in 2025. The amount recorded here is the ten-year commitment, not one year's payment, and it is disclosed only by SolarEdge itself.
In-kind support2022-12—Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (PEARL teaching laboratory)
SolarEdge donated the equipment for PEARL, the Power Electronics And Renewable Energy Laboratory in the Technion's Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering: a student teaching lab that opened in 2022 and was inaugurated that December, dedicated to the memory of the company's founder Guy Sella, a Technion graduate who died in 2019. Prof. Yoash Levron, who heads the faculty's energy field, told the Israeli trade outlet Techtime that the lab fills one large room and holds a complete SolarEdge system, from solar generation through to feeding power into the grid, that the company accompanies the lab and supplies further equipment when it is needed, and that it is "a considerable donation that will hold us for many years"; the faculty's dean describes PEARL as its 12th teaching lab and the first devoted to power electronics and renewable energy. SolarEdge's own 2023 sustainability report says 40 students carried out projects in PEARL during the 2023 academic year. The lab belongs to the same Guy Sella Memorial Project as the company's ten-year Technion commitment recorded separately on this page; no value was published for the donated equipment, and no amount is entered here so that nothing is counted twice.
In-kind support2023—No2Violence women's shelter, central Israel (earlier: Manof youth village, northern Israel; later: Atid Raziel youth village)
Under a stated company target of one donated community solar installation in Israel each year, SolarEdge donated a complete 40 kW solar energy management system in 2023 to a shelter in central Israel run by the Israeli NGO No2Violence for women and children escaping domestic violence: its own power optimizers and inverters together with the panels, racking and remaining hardware, with a SolarEdge team carrying out and overseeing the installation, according to the company's 2023 sustainability report. The same report names the previous year's installation at the Manof youth village for at-risk youth in northern Israel, and SolarEdge's proxy statement filed in April 2026 records a later off-grid solar system installed with the Atid Raziel youth village to power a youth-run community cafe. No monetary value was published for any of these systems. The recipients are Israeli civil-society bodies; none of these donations involves the Israeli government or the military.
Operations in Israel2006—Israel (headquarters, R&D and manufacturing)
Israeli-founded smart-energy company: founded in 2006 by five Israeli founders led by the late Guy Sella, headquartered in Herzliya with its principal research and development center in Israel. Its SEC filings state that "our headquarters and principal research and development center are located in Israel" and that most key employees and officers are residents of Israel; it manufactures part of its products at the Sella 1 facility in northern Israel (named for its founder).
Operations in Israel2023-11—Israel (continued operations through the war; employees on IDF reserve duty)
Kept Israeli operations running through the October 2023 war while a large share of its Israeli workforce served in the IDF: CEO Zvi Lando told Globes in November 2023 that over 350 employees — 11% of the Israel workforce — were serving in the army reserves, and SEC filings report continued call-ups (about 6.8% of Israel employees in Q1 2026) with offices and facilities in Israel remaining open and no material disruption to manufacturing and delivery. The reserve service is the employees' state-mandated duty, not a corporate donation.
Government contract2015—Settlement solar projects in the Jordan Valley, occupied West Bank (Shdemot Mehola, Petza'el)
Who Profits, an Israeli-Palestinian advocacy research centre that tracks companies tied to the occupation, documents SolarEdge inverters installed in two Jordan Valley settlement solar projects in the occupied West Bank: the Shdemot Mehola solar field, initiated in 2015 on land Who Profits describes as "approximately 50 dunams" of occupied Palestinian land (5-megawatt capacity), where Who Profits cites the CEO of EPC contractor MGA Energy Solutions for a count of 282 SolarEdge inverters among 15,624 solar panels; and the Petza'el settlement solar field, which it says generates 630kW annually. Independently of Who Profits, the West Bank solidarity group Jordan Valley Solidarity photographed and reported the same Shdemot Mehola project already under construction in July 2015, citing "at least 10 dunams" of what it calls stolen Palestinian land — a smaller land-use figure than Who Profits' later estimate, consistent with construction still being underway when it was documented. SolarEdge responded to Who Profits on September 1, 2016 that it "sell[s] our products to distributors worldwide," is "not an installer," and does not control where its distributors resell or install its products. Who Profits separately asserts, without a supporting date or citation, that SolarEdge is "a supplier to Israel Prison Service and the Israeli Ministry of Public Security" — a claim this research could not independently verify or date beyond Who Profits' own say-so.
Donations total$1,000,000

Frequently asked questions

Did SolarEdge donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?

Yes. Documented donations total $1,000,000, including $1,000,000 to Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Guy Sella Memorial Project). Each donation is listed on this page with its date and source.

How much has SolarEdge given?

Documented donations total $1,000,000. The largest single recorded item is $1,000,000 to Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Guy Sella Memorial Project) (2020).

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. 12 distinct sources are cited for SolarEdge. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.

Sources & citations

Record last updated: 2026-09-26

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