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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation, one of the largest IT companies in the world.
The company is engaged in the development of products, services and devices of digital technology, artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Company products include Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Teams, Azure, GitHub, LinkedIn, Skype, Dynamics, Xbox, and Nuance.
Microsoft has a history of deep engagement with the Israeli high-tech industry and close ties to the Israeli military.
Through its fully-owned Israeli subsidiaries, the company provides services to all Israeli government offices, including the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD), the Ministry of National Security, and the Population and Immigration Authority. The company provides a wide range of software and cloud services to the Israeli military and security bodies in Israel, including the Israel Police and the Israel Prison Service.
Microsoft Israel is one of the three strategic centers of Microsoft worldwide, and one of the company's largest leased international properties spaces. In November 2023, Microsoft launched its first cloud region in Israel, with an estimated investment of hundreds of millions of USD.
Services to the Israeli Military
Microsoft provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with software, professional services, cloud computing and cloud storage services, and artificial intelligence tools.
Microsoft has provided the Israeli military with artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing services that were used for mass surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, and for targeting airstrikes in Gaza during the Genocide.
Cloud-based Surveillance System
Microsoft provides cloud storage services to the Israeli military, which have been used for mass surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Microsoft Azure cloud-based storage platform was used for the storage of data files of millions of phone calls obtained through broad mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank by the Israeli Intelligence Corps unit, Unit 8200.
For over a period of at least three years, Microsoft servers were used to store recordings of millions of phone calls made daily by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, which were collected by the unit for expansive and intrusive surveillance of Palestinians. Microsoft worked closely with Unit 8200 engineers to design and implement security measures fitted for the unit's security standards and provided the unit with access to a customized and segregated area on its Azure cloud platform to store data on Microsoft servers. According to media reports, the recordings held in Microsoft Azure were used to identify bombing targets for airstrikes in Gaza during the Genocide and for carrying out military activities in the West Bank. In September 2025, Microsoft announced it had blocked Unit 8200's access to some of its cloud services, following an exposure by the Guardian.
Gaza Genocide
Microsoft has provided various products and services to dozens of units in the Israeli military during the Gaza Genocide. Microsoft professional teams have worked closely with Israeli military units to develop products and systems, and Microsoft personnel provided professional workshops for soldiers.
According to journalistic reports, leaked commercial records revealed that between October 2023 and January 2025, Microsoft provided cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the IMOD for dozens of units in the Israeli military in the air, ground, and naval forces, and the intelligence corps. The artificial intelligence services included translation, OpenAI's language model, a speech-to-text tool, an automatic document analysis tool, and other tools. Such units included Unit 8200 of the Intelligence Corps; Unit 81 technology unit of the Special Operations Directorate; the Sapir Unit of the Intelligence IT Division; the Ofek Unit responsible for the military's target bank and for the development of systems in the Air Force; the Matzpen Unit, the largest software body in the Israeli Military responsible for the development of operational systems and combat support systems; and the Military Attorney's Office.
Additionally, Microsoft works in collaboration with the Israeli military’s Mamram Unit, an abbreviation for the Center of Computing and Information Systems, in the Computer and IT Directorate. Among others, the unit developed and operates the Israeli military cloud used to operate the Israeli military's "target bank", which has been used in the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and a platform that enables intelligence gathering.
Rolling Stone System
Microsoft provides Azure cloud services, various Office applications, and the Microsoft CRM system to maintain the Israeli military's "Rolling Stone" system, which is used to manage and control the Palestinian population and movement registry in the West Bank and Gaza. The system is operated by the Israeli military's ICT and Cyber Unit for collecting data on Palestinian residents and monitoring their movement through checkpoints.
Services to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories
In March 2025, the Israeli military’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) published a public tender for the establishment of a call center to manage public inquiries for the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the West Bank and the Gaza District Coordination and Liaison (DCL). According to the tender documents, Microsoft Israel provides the ICA with the Microsoft Copilot chatbot system as well as various Office programs and a Microsoft CRM system.
Services to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Al- Munaseq app
Microsoft provides cloud platform services to the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the occupied West Bank, used to facilitate Israel's permit regime to control and monitor Palestinians' movement.
The “al Munaseq” application, the Coordinator in Arabic, is a phone app operated by the Israeli Civil Administration in the occupied West Bank to manage the issuance of movement and work permits for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza under Israel's permit regime. The application was developed by the Israeli military and runs on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. The app is used to manage the issuance of permits and biometric smart cards, which Palestinian residents of the West Bank are required to hold in order to cross Israeli checkpoints, also within the West Bank.
Palestinian residents are required to download the app in order to access their permits and are compelled provide personal information that is stored by the ICA. The app requires to provide name, ID and phone number, as well as to give access to their phone’s IP address, device ID, operating system ID, browser ID, geolocation information, access to the camera and to files stored on the mobile device, consent to the extraction and storage of the data by the Israeli military, and of sharing the information with third parties such as other Israeli government and security authorities. For some actions in the app, a location and a photo must be provided.
Palestinian residents of the West Bank are also required to use the app to schedule an appointment at the military District Coordination and Liaison Office (DCO) to issue a resident card and a smart card, which they are required to hold in order to enter and stay in the “Seam Zone” area of the occupied West Bank. The Seam Zone is an area between the Israeli Separation Wall in the occupied West Bank and the Green Line that has been declared a closed zone by the Israeli military, where Palestinian residents are required by the Israeli military to carry smart cards issued by the ICA. Palestinians are also required to use the app to issue the permits needed to cross the Green Line for medical purposes, family visits, travel abroad, etc., as part of Israel's oppressive permit regime. In addition, Palestinians working inside Israel and in Israeli settlements are required to use the app to access their work permits. For an employment permit, their personal details are uploaded online and available for review by Israeli employers, and the information is transferred to the Ministry of Construction and Housing.
Military Cloud Platform
Microsoft provides its Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform for the Israeli military's public cloud.
The military cloud platform, based on Microsoft Azure, is designed to make the military's work environment accessible on smart devices, including personal computers and mobile phones, and allow secure access to unclassified information for regular and reserve personnel.
In April 2023, the IMOD published an integration tender for the provision of Microsoft 365 services, among others, to the Israeli military worth tens of millions of NIS for a period of three years, with an option for extension. The tender was led by the Mamram Unit, the military's Central Computing System Unit, in cooperation with the ICT Corps. As part of the agreement, Cellcom was selected to manage services from the Azure-based military cloud platform.
Microsoft Azure Servers
Microsoft Azure servers were also used to establish military applications developed by the Israeli military IT and Cyber Defense Division. The company provided the military with servers to store the applications' information, and senior programmers of the company guided and advised in the development process.
Services to the Digital and IT Division
Microsoft provides cloud infrastructure for the Digital and Information Technologies Division at the Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for the development and maintenance of information systems, cyber protection, data management, and technological innovation of all of the Ministry of Defense's core systems, integrating advanced artificial intelligence solutions.
Microsoft Smart Glasses
In 2016, the Israeli military published a video presenting its use of Microsoft’s augmented reality smart glasses, Microsoft Hololens, for augmented battlefield training to help with battlefield strategy and training.
Collaborations with the Israeli Military
In September 2023, Microsoft participated in the annual conference of Mamram unit's graduates with a lecture given by a representative from Microsoft Southeast Europe.
In August 2023, a developer conference was held at Microsoft Israel offices with the Shahar Unit, the software house for organizational systems of the Israel military combat management and support under the ICT Division. About 150 soldiers, officers and consultants from a selection of development frameworks in the army participated in the conference, and lectures and professional discussions were held on Kubernetes, React, cyber defense, testing, knowledge management and innovation.
In July 2023, Microsoft Israel R&D Center's chief scientist participated in a conference held at Ben Gurion University at the initiative of the Mamram Unit alumni association on the issue of Artificial Intelligence and the integration of information technologies in the Israeli military. The commander of the Lotem Unit, the Israeli military brigade for operational technological strengthening, also participated in the conference.
Courses for the Israeli military
In April 2024, Microsoft Israel hosted a group from the "Combatants to Hi-Tech" program, held in collaboration with the Ministry and the Israeli army, for a TypeScript workshop developed in Microsoft, a lecture and a tour given by the company's employees. The "Combatants to Hi-Tech" program is a prestigious program designed to integrate combat fighters into the high-tech industry using their combat experience.
In December 2022, Microsoft Israel launched a free cyber training program for the Israeli military's veterans in collaboration with the Israeli military. The program offers free training courses in the field of information security and Microsoft's cyber solutions for the purpose of integration into cyber security positions in the hi-tech industry.
In 2021, the Israeli military introduced an Artificial Intelligence training course established in partnership with Microsoft, accessible to every soldier from a mobile phone or computer for free. The course was established by the Shiloh Brigade (acronym for Combat Methods and Innovation), which deals with the development of innovative multi-armed combat methods, together with Microsoft and the military Tactical Command College.
In 2021, Microsoft took part in a hackathon of the Israeli military, which took place at a military base, where Israeli soldiers developed new technology for military operational use with the assist of Microsoft mentors. The new developments included a “Settlement Defense” app, designed to assist soldiers guarding Israeli settlements, and a manual weapon calibration system for shooting training for combat soldiers.
In 2007, the Israeli military announced that soldiers in the military’s computing and cyber studies unit can get free training in a Microsoft course that was developed by the company according to the requirements of the military.
In early 2000, Microsoft signed an agreement with the Israeli military to provide programming courses programs that grant soldiers with the company's recognized degrees.
Collaboration with the Israeli Military and the Ministry of Education
Microsoft has worked in cooperation with the Israeli military and the Israeli Ministry of Education to encourage high school students to excellent in computer science and technology. Engineers from the company lecture at schools alongside military officers who give preparatory lectures for military service.
Microsoft collaborated with the Israeli military in “Hadarim” project, which offers high school female students to join a prestigious pre-military program designed to integrate them in high-tech units in the Israeli military.
Software Services
In 2002, Microsoft was contracted to provide unlimited software products and implementation services for the Israeli military, the IMOD and other security forces for a period of 3 years for the amount of $100 million. The contract included cooperation between the company and the military’s software developers.
In 1999, Microsoft signed a NIS 50 million agreement with the Israeli military to regularize the use of Microsoft software in military departments. The agreement constitutes one of the largest software licensing deals ever signed in Israel, at the time. An additional agreement was signed to formalize the use of Microsoft software systems in the military and Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Services to Settlements
Ariel University
Microsoft provides its products and services to Ariel University, located in the settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank. The university offers Microsoft certification courses that grant an international certificate recognized by the company.
The Ariel Engineering College of Technology, also known as the Ariel Engineering Center, based at the Ariel University campus, is recognized as an IT ACADEMY by Microsoft and is authorized to grant certification on behalf of the company. The certification is done under the supervision of Microsoft, and the course includes preparation for the certification exams required by Microsoft.
In January 2025, Microsoft Israel hosted students from the Software Engineering Department at Ariel University for a tour of the company's campus. The company gave the students a lecture on cybersecurity and information security and assistance in preparing for job interviews for successfully integrating into the high-tech industry.
Additionally, Microsoft grants free use of its software applications to students at Ariel University. Every student at the university is entitled to receive the full Office 365 software package and Microsoft Teams for free use on their personal computers, tablets, and smartphones, free of charge for the entire duration of their studies.
In September 2022, Ariel University published a call for three Microsoft research grants for researchers from Israeli universities. Microsoft has offered three research grants to researchers from Israeli universities in collaboration with the Inter-University Computation Center, which the head of the Computer and Information Systems Division at Ariel University is on its executive committee.
In July 2022, Microsoft Israel hosted the Ariel hackathon (Hack-AU) in its offices with the participation of 150 students from the university and 40 professional mentors in various fields.
In May 2022, Microsoft hosted the Ariel University hackathon, organized by Ariel University and the Ariel Student Association.
Ma’ale Adumim Department of Education
In 2019, the Education Department of Ma'ale Adumim settlement entered a joint venture with Microsoft to implement the use of Microsoft applications for all students and teachers in schools in the settlement, with trainings held by representatives of Microsoft.
Services to the Israel Police
Microsoft provides products and cloud services to the Ministry of National Security (formerly the Ministry of Public Security), including to the Israel Police and Israel Prison Service.
As part of an agreement between Microsoft and the Israeli government, Microsoft products are embedded as an integral part of the Israel Police’s computer systems and form the basis and infrastructure for additional systems that the police use regularly. The police uses Microsoft Azure cloud services as a platform for administrative and operational cloud services.
In November 2025, Microsoft was contracted, with exemption from tender, as the sole supplier to provide the ministry with maintenance and licensing services for Microsoft products from January 2026 until the end of December 2028 for USD 550,000.
Microsoft software and services are widely deployed in the ministry's core systems and other systems, including Microsoft SQL, RDS, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Project, System Center, and Visio systems.
In August 2024, the Israel Police published a tender for the purchase of Microsoft Azure Active Directory licensing. According to the tender brochure, as a prerequisite for participation in the tender, the bidder must be an authorized reseller of Microsoft for the supply of its products and licenses in Israel.
The Israel Police use Microsoft Tenant, which provides a secure digital space within Microsoft's cloud (like Azure or Microsoft 365), and serves as a central hub for all users, devices, data, and licenses.
In January 2024, Microsoft Israel was contracted by the Israel Police as sole supplier, with an exemption from tender, to provide Microsoft Premier expert services and maintenance until the end of December 2026 for NIS 3,600,000. Also in January 2024, the Israel Police contracted Ness A.T. for the purchase of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Between 2019 and the end of 2022, the Israel Police contracted Ness A.T. for the purchase of licensing for Microsoft products for NIS 16,000,000.
In December 2022, Microsoft Israel was contracted, with an exemption from tender, by the Israeli Police to provide Microsoft Azure Cloud Services for NIS 4 million for six months starting January 2023. Also in December 2022, the company was contracted with an exemption from tenders by the Israeli Police to provide licensing for Microsoft products for NIS 16 million from January 2023 until December 2025.
In 2021, Microsoft was contracted to be the sole supplier of software support services for Israel police for the amount of NIS 250,000. In 2020, the company was contracted to provide cloud services for Israel Police for the amount of NIS 7 million. In 2019, the company was contracted to provide Microsoft Azure cloud services for NIS 3.5 million.
Services to the Israel Prions Service
Microsoft provides its licensed products to the Israel Prison Service (IPS).
In April 2024, Microsoft Israel was contracted by the Israel Prison Service as sole supplier, with an exemption from tender, to provide Premier support services until the April 2027 for NIS 2,674,620.
In 2021, Microsoft was contracted to provide software consulting services for the Israel Prison Service for the year 2022, for the amount of NIS 796,415. In 2020, the company was contracted to provide the same services for the amount of NIS 793,893. In 2019, the company was contracted to be the sole supplier of computing products for IPS until 2022. Between 2017 and 2019, the company was contracted to provide software and servers support and consulting services for IPS.
Services to the Population and Immigration Authority
In December 2025, the Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA) contracted Microsoft Israel as the sole supplier of Microsoft products for a period of 3 years, from January 2026 to the end of December 2028, for NIS 2,065,000. The Population and Immigration Authority makes extensive use of Microsoft products, including Visio, Project, SharePoint, SQL technologies and servers, which are widely deployed in the authority's core systems.
Services to the Israeli Government
The Israeli government has an agreement with Microsoft that authorizes any government office to purchase Microsoft products from one of the company’s authorized suppliers, with almost no restriction. In 2010, the Government Procurement Administration in the Accountant General's Division signed a central agreement with Microsoft for approximately NIS 300 million over three years, for the purchase of licenses for operating systems and Office for workstations, licenses for servers and other additional products for all government ministries and authorized units.
Naqab
In June 2023, Microsoft opened a new office in the hi-tech park “Gav-Yam” in the city of Be'er Sheva in the Naqab. The industrial park is located next to the Israeli military telecommunication base and Computer Service Directorate campus, and was built as part of a Southern Relocation plan led by the Israeli Ministry of Defense. This military and industrial development plan was designed to relocate technology companies alongside military elite tech units to the Naqab in order to enhance the integration of soldiers from Cyber units in work in high-tech companies at the end of their service. This project is part of a greater attempt to strengthen Jewish settlement and development in the Naqab while Palestinian Bedouin communities in the region face forced displacement and de-development by Israeli authorities. For more on Development & Military Projects in the Naqab see Who Profits’ interactive map: Tools of Dispossession in the Naqab.
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation, one of the largest IT companies in the world.
The company is engaged in the development of products, services and devices of digital technology, artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Company products include Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Teams, Azure, GitHub, LinkedIn, Skype, Dynamics, Xbox, and Nuance.
Microsoft has a history of deep engagement with the Israeli high-tech industry and close ties to the Israeli military.
Through its fully-owned Israeli subsidiaries, the company provides services to all Israeli government offices, including the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD), the Ministry of National Security, and the Population and Immigration Authority. The company provides a wide range of software and cloud services to the Israeli military and security bodies in Israel, including the Israel Police and the Israel Prison Service.
Microsoft Israel is one of the three strategic centers of Microsoft worldwide, and one of the company's largest leased international properties spaces. In November 2023, Microsoft launched its first cloud region in Israel, with an estimated investment of hundreds of millions of USD.
Services to the Israeli Military
Microsoft provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with software, professional services, cloud computing and cloud storage services, and artificial intelligence tools.
Microsoft has provided the Israeli military with artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing services that were used for mass surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, and for targeting airstrikes in Gaza during the Genocide.
Cloud-based Surveillance System
Microsoft provides cloud storage services to the Israeli military, which have been used for mass surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Microsoft Azure cloud-based storage platform was used for the storage of data files of millions of phone calls obtained through broad mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank by the Israeli Intelligence Corps unit, Unit 8200.
For over a period of at least three years, Microsoft servers were used to store recordings of millions of phone calls made daily by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, which were collected by the unit for expansive and intrusive surveillance of Palestinians. Microsoft worked closely with Unit 8200 engineers to design and implement security measures fitted for the unit's security standards and provided the unit with access to a customized and segregated area on its Azure cloud platform to store data on Microsoft servers. According to media reports, the recordings held in Microsoft Azure were used to identify bombing targets for airstrikes in Gaza during the Genocide and for carrying out military activities in the West Bank. In September 2025, Microsoft announced it had blocked Unit 8200's access to some of its cloud services, following an exposure by the Guardian.
Gaza Genocide
Microsoft has provided various products and services to dozens of units in the Israeli military during the Gaza Genocide. Microsoft professional teams have worked closely with Israeli military units to develop products and systems, and Microsoft personnel provided professional workshops for soldiers.
According to journalistic reports, leaked commercial records revealed that between October 2023 and January 2025, Microsoft provided cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the IMOD for dozens of units in the Israeli military in the air, ground, and naval forces, and the intelligence corps. The artificial intelligence services included translation, OpenAI's language model, a speech-to-text tool, an automatic document analysis tool, and other tools. Such units included Unit 8200 of the Intelligence Corps; Unit 81 technology unit of the Special Operations Directorate; the Sapir Unit of the Intelligence IT Division; the Ofek Unit responsible for the military's target bank and for the development of systems in the Air Force; the Matzpen Unit, the largest software body in the Israeli Military responsible for the development of operational systems and combat support systems; and the Military Attorney's Office.
Additionally, Microsoft works in collaboration with the Israeli military’s Mamram Unit, an abbreviation for the Center of Computing and Information Systems, in the Computer and IT Directorate. Among others, the unit developed and operates the Israeli military cloud used to operate the Israeli military's "target bank", which has been used in the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and a platform that enables intelligence gathering.
Rolling Stone System
Microsoft provides Azure cloud services, various Office applications, and the Microsoft CRM system to maintain the Israeli military's "Rolling Stone" system, which is used to manage and control the Palestinian population and movement registry in the West Bank and Gaza. The system is operated by the Israeli military's ICT and Cyber Unit for collecting data on Palestinian residents and monitoring their movement through checkpoints.
Services to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories
In March 2025, the Israeli military’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) published a public tender for the establishment of a call center to manage public inquiries for the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the West Bank and the Gaza District Coordination and Liaison (DCL). According to the tender documents, Microsoft Israel provides the ICA with the Microsoft Copilot chatbot system as well as various Office programs and a Microsoft CRM system.
Services to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Al- Munaseq app
Microsoft provides cloud platform services to the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the occupied West Bank, used to facilitate Israel's permit regime to control and monitor Palestinians' movement.
The “al Munaseq” application, the Coordinator in Arabic, is a phone app operated by the Israeli Civil Administration in the occupied West Bank to manage the issuance of movement and work permits for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza under Israel's permit regime. The application was developed by the Israeli military and runs on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. The app is used to manage the issuance of permits and biometric smart cards, which Palestinian residents of the West Bank are required to hold in order to cross Israeli checkpoints, also within the West Bank.
Palestinian residents are required to download the app in order to access their permits and are compelled provide personal information that is stored by the ICA. The app requires to provide name, ID and phone number, as well as to give access to their phone’s IP address, device ID, operating system ID, browser ID, geolocation information, access to the camera and to files stored on the mobile device, consent to the extraction and storage of the data by the Israeli military, and of sharing the information with third parties such as other Israeli government and security authorities. For some actions in the app, a location and a photo must be provided.
Palestinian residents of the West Bank are also required to use the app to schedule an appointment at the military District Coordination and Liaison Office (DCO) to issue a resident card and a smart card, which they are required to hold in order to enter and stay in the “Seam Zone” area of the occupied West Bank. The Seam Zone is an area between the Israeli Separation Wall in the occupied West Bank and the Green Line that has been declared a closed zone by the Israeli military, where Palestinian residents are required by the Israeli military to carry smart cards issued by the ICA. Palestinians are also required to use the app to issue the permits needed to cross the Green Line for medical purposes, family visits, travel abroad, etc., as part of Israel's oppressive permit regime. In addition, Palestinians working inside Israel and in Israeli settlements are required to use the app to access their work permits. For an employment permit, their personal details are uploaded online and available for review by Israeli employers, and the information is transferred to the Ministry of Construction and Housing.
Military Cloud Platform
Microsoft provides its Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform for the Israeli military's public cloud.
The military cloud platform, based on Microsoft Azure, is designed to make the military's work environment accessible on smart devices, including personal computers and mobile phones, and allow secure access to unclassified information for regular and reserve personnel.
In April 2023, the IMOD published an integration tender for the provision of Microsoft 365 services, among others, to the Israeli military worth tens of millions of NIS for a period of three years, with an option for extension. The tender was led by the Mamram Unit, the military's Central Computing System Unit, in cooperation with the ICT Corps. As part of the agreement, Cellcom was selected to manage services from the Azure-based military cloud platform.
Microsoft Azure Servers
Microsoft Azure servers were also used to establish military applications developed by the Israeli military IT and Cyber Defense Division. The company provided the military with servers to store the applications' information, and senior programmers of the company guided and advised in the development process.
Services to the Digital and IT Division
Microsoft provides cloud infrastructure for the Digital and Information Technologies Division at the Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for the development and maintenance of information systems, cyber protection, data management, and technological innovation of all of the Ministry of Defense's core systems, integrating advanced artificial intelligence solutions.
Microsoft Smart Glasses
In 2016, the Israeli military published a video presenting its use of Microsoft’s augmented reality smart glasses, Microsoft Hololens, for augmented battlefield training to help with battlefield strategy and training.
Collaborations with the Israeli Military
In September 2023, Microsoft participated in the annual conference of Mamram unit's graduates with a lecture given by a representative from Microsoft Southeast Europe.
In August 2023, a developer conference was held at Microsoft Israel offices with the Shahar Unit, the software house for organizational systems of the Israel military combat management and support under the ICT Division. About 150 soldiers, officers and consultants from a selection of development frameworks in the army participated in the conference, and lectures and professional discussions were held on Kubernetes, React, cyber defense, testing, knowledge management and innovation.
In July 2023, Microsoft Israel R&D Center's chief scientist participated in a conference held at Ben Gurion University at the initiative of the Mamram Unit alumni association on the issue of Artificial Intelligence and the integration of information technologies in the Israeli military. The commander of the Lotem Unit, the Israeli military brigade for operational technological strengthening, also participated in the conference.
Courses for the Israeli military
In April 2024, Microsoft Israel hosted a group from the "Combatants to Hi-Tech" program, held in collaboration with the Ministry and the Israeli army, for a TypeScript workshop developed in Microsoft, a lecture and a tour given by the company's employees. The "Combatants to Hi-Tech" program is a prestigious program designed to integrate combat fighters into the high-tech industry using their combat experience.
In December 2022, Microsoft Israel launched a free cyber training program for the Israeli military's veterans in collaboration with the Israeli military. The program offers free training courses in the field of information security and Microsoft's cyber solutions for the purpose of integration into cyber security positions in the hi-tech industry.
In 2021, the Israeli military introduced an Artificial Intelligence training course established in partnership with Microsoft, accessible to every soldier from a mobile phone or computer for free. The course was established by the Shiloh Brigade (acronym for Combat Methods and Innovation), which deals with the development of innovative multi-armed combat methods, together with Microsoft and the military Tactical Command College.
In 2021, Microsoft took part in a hackathon of the Israeli military, which took place at a military base, where Israeli soldiers developed new technology for military operational use with the assist of Microsoft mentors. The new developments included a “Settlement Defense” app, designed to assist soldiers guarding Israeli settlements, and a manual weapon calibration system for shooting training for combat soldiers.
In 2007, the Israeli military announced that soldiers in the military’s computing and cyber studies unit can get free training in a Microsoft course that was developed by the company according to the requirements of the military.
In early 2000, Microsoft signed an agreement with the Israeli military to provide programming courses programs that grant soldiers with the company's recognized degrees.
Collaboration with the Israeli Military and the Ministry of Education
Microsoft has worked in cooperation with the Israeli military and the Israeli Ministry of Education to encourage high school students to excellent in computer science and technology. Engineers from the company lecture at schools alongside military officers who give preparatory lectures for military service.
Microsoft collaborated with the Israeli military in “Hadarim” project, which offers high school female students to join a prestigious pre-military program designed to integrate them in high-tech units in the Israeli military.
Software Services
In 2002, Microsoft was contracted to provide unlimited software products and implementation services for the Israeli military, the IMOD and other security forces for a period of 3 years for the amount of $100 million. The contract included cooperation between the company and the military’s software developers.
In 1999, Microsoft signed a NIS 50 million agreement with the Israeli military to regularize the use of Microsoft software in military departments. The agreement constitutes one of the largest software licensing deals ever signed in Israel, at the time. An additional agreement was signed to formalize the use of Microsoft software systems in the military and Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Services to Settlements
Ariel University
Microsoft provides its products and services to Ariel University, located in the settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank. The university offers Microsoft certification courses that grant an international certificate recognized by the company.
The Ariel Engineering College of Technology, also known as the Ariel Engineering Center, based at the Ariel University campus, is recognized as an IT ACADEMY by Microsoft and is authorized to grant certification on behalf of the company. The certification is done under the supervision of Microsoft, and the course includes preparation for the certification exams required by Microsoft.
In January 2025, Microsoft Israel hosted students from the Software Engineering Department at Ariel University for a tour of the company's campus. The company gave the students a lecture on cybersecurity and information security and assistance in preparing for job interviews for successfully integrating into the high-tech industry.
Additionally, Microsoft grants free use of its software applications to students at Ariel University. Every student at the university is entitled to receive the full Office 365 software package and Microsoft Teams for free use on their personal computers, tablets, and smartphones, free of charge for the entire duration of their studies.
In September 2022, Ariel University published a call for three Microsoft research grants for researchers from Israeli universities. Microsoft has offered three research grants to researchers from Israeli universities in collaboration with the Inter-University Computation Center, which the head of the Computer and Information Systems Division at Ariel University is on its executive committee.
In July 2022, Microsoft Israel hosted the Ariel hackathon (Hack-AU) in its offices with the participation of 150 students from the university and 40 professional mentors in various fields.
In May 2022, Microsoft hosted the Ariel University hackathon, organized by Ariel University and the Ariel Student Association.
Ma’ale Adumim Department of Education
In 2019, the Education Department of Ma'ale Adumim settlement entered a joint venture with Microsoft to implement the use of Microsoft applications for all students and teachers in schools in the settlement, with trainings held by representatives of Microsoft.
Services to the Israel Police
Microsoft provides products and cloud services to the Ministry of National Security (formerly the Ministry of Public Security), including to the Israel Police and Israel Prison Service.
As part of an agreement between Microsoft and the Israeli government, Microsoft products are embedded as an integral part of the Israel Police’s computer systems and form the basis and infrastructure for additional systems that the police use regularly. The police uses Microsoft Azure cloud services as a platform for administrative and operational cloud services.
In November 2025, Microsoft was contracted, with exemption from tender, as the sole supplier to provide the ministry with maintenance and licensing services for Microsoft products from January 2026 until the end of December 2028 for USD 550,000.
Microsoft software and services are widely deployed in the ministry's core systems and other systems, including Microsoft SQL, RDS, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Project, System Center, and Visio systems.
In August 2024, the Israel Police published a tender for the purchase of Microsoft Azure Active Directory licensing. According to the tender brochure, as a prerequisite for participation in the tender, the bidder must be an authorized reseller of Microsoft for the supply of its products and licenses in Israel.
The Israel Police use Microsoft Tenant, which provides a secure digital space within Microsoft's cloud (like Azure or Microsoft 365), and serves as a central hub for all users, devices, data, and licenses.
In January 2024, Microsoft Israel was contracted by the Israel Police as sole supplier, with an exemption from tender, to provide Microsoft Premier expert services and maintenance until the end of December 2026 for NIS 3,600,000. Also in January 2024, the Israel Police contracted Ness A.T. for the purchase of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Between 2019 and the end of 2022, the Israel Police contracted Ness A.T. for the purchase of licensing for Microsoft products for NIS 16,000,000.
In December 2022, Microsoft Israel was contracted, with an exemption from tender, by the Israeli Police to provide Microsoft Azure Cloud Services for NIS 4 million for six months starting January 2023. Also in December 2022, the company was contracted with an exemption from tenders by the Israeli Police to provide licensing for Microsoft products for NIS 16 million from January 2023 until December 2025.
In 2021, Microsoft was contracted to be the sole supplier of software support services for Israel police for the amount of NIS 250,000. In 2020, the company was contracted to provide cloud services for Israel Police for the amount of NIS 7 million. In 2019, the company was contracted to provide Microsoft Azure cloud services for NIS 3.5 million.
Services to the Israel Prions Service
Microsoft provides its licensed products to the Israel Prison Service (IPS).
In April 2024, Microsoft Israel was contracted by the Israel Prison Service as sole supplier, with an exemption from tender, to provide Premier support services until the April 2027 for NIS 2,674,620.
In 2021, Microsoft was contracted to provide software consulting services for the Israel Prison Service for the year 2022, for the amount of NIS 796,415. In 2020, the company was contracted to provide the same services for the amount of NIS 793,893. In 2019, the company was contracted to be the sole supplier of computing products for IPS until 2022. Between 2017 and 2019, the company was contracted to provide software and servers support and consulting services for IPS.
Services to the Population and Immigration Authority
In December 2025, the Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA) contracted Microsoft Israel as the sole supplier of Microsoft products for a period of 3 years, from January 2026 to the end of December 2028, for NIS 2,065,000. The Population and Immigration Authority makes extensive use of Microsoft products, including Visio, Project, SharePoint, SQL technologies and servers, which are widely deployed in the authority's core systems.
Services to the Israeli Government
The Israeli government has an agreement with Microsoft that authorizes any government office to purchase Microsoft products from one of the company’s authorized suppliers, with almost no restriction. In 2010, the Government Procurement Administration in the Accountant General's Division signed a central agreement with Microsoft for approximately NIS 300 million over three years, for the purchase of licenses for operating systems and Office for workstations, licenses for servers and other additional products for all government ministries and authorized units.
Naqab
In June 2023, Microsoft opened a new office in the hi-tech park “Gav-Yam” in the city of Be'er Sheva in the Naqab. The industrial park is located next to the Israeli military telecommunication base and Computer Service Directorate campus, and was built as part of a Southern Relocation plan led by the Israeli Ministry of Defense. This military and industrial development plan was designed to relocate technology companies alongside military elite tech units to the Naqab in order to enhance the integration of soldiers from Cyber units in work in high-tech companies at the end of their service. This project is part of a greater attempt to strengthen Jewish settlement and development in the Naqab while Palestinian Bedouin communities in the region face forced displacement and de-development by Israeli authorities. For more on Development & Military Projects in the Naqab see Who Profits’ interactive map: Tools of Dispossession in the Naqab.
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation, one of the largest IT companies in the world.
The company is engaged in the development of products, services and devices of digital technology, artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Company products include Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Teams, Azure, GitHub, LinkedIn, Skype, Dynamics, Xbox, and Nuance.
Microsoft has a history of deep engagement with the Israeli high-tech industry and close ties to the Israeli military.
Through its fully-owned Israeli subsidiaries, the company provides services to all Israeli government offices, including the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD), the Ministry of National Security, and the Population and Immigration Authority. The company provides a wide range of software and cloud services to the Israeli military and security bodies in Israel, including the Israel Police and the Israel Prison Service.
Microsoft Israel is one of the three strategic centers of Microsoft worldwide, and one of the company's largest leased international properties spaces. In November 2023, Microsoft launched its first cloud region in Israel, with an estimated investment of hundreds of millions of USD.
Services to the Israeli Military
Microsoft provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with software, professional services, cloud computing and cloud storage services, and artificial intelligence tools.
Microsoft has provided the Israeli military with artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing services that were used for mass surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, and for targeting airstrikes in Gaza during the Genocide.
Cloud-based Surveillance System
Microsoft provides cloud storage services to the Israeli military, which have been used for mass surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Microsoft Azure cloud-based storage platform was used for the storage of data files of millions of phone calls obtained through broad mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank by the Israeli Intelligence Corps unit, Unit 8200.
For over a period of at least three years, Microsoft servers were used to store recordings of millions of phone calls made daily by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, which were collected by the unit for expansive and intrusive surveillance of Palestinians. Microsoft worked closely with Unit 8200 engineers to design and implement security measures fitted for the unit's security standards and provided the unit with access to a customized and segregated area on its Azure cloud platform to store data on Microsoft servers. According to media reports, the recordings held in Microsoft Azure were used to identify bombing targets for airstrikes in Gaza during the Genocide and for carrying out military activities in the West Bank. In September 2025, Microsoft announced it had blocked Unit 8200's access to some of its cloud services, following an exposure by the Guardian.
Gaza Genocide
Microsoft has provided various products and services to dozens of units in the Israeli military during the Gaza Genocide. Microsoft professional teams have worked closely with Israeli military units to develop products and systems, and Microsoft personnel provided professional workshops for soldiers.
According to journalistic reports, leaked commercial records revealed that between October 2023 and January 2025, Microsoft provided cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the IMOD for dozens of units in the Israeli military in the air, ground, and naval forces, and the intelligence corps. The artificial intelligence services included translation, OpenAI's language model, a speech-to-text tool, an automatic document analysis tool, and other tools. Such units included Unit 8200 of the Intelligence Corps; Unit 81 technology unit of the Special Operations Directorate; the Sapir Unit of the Intelligence IT Division; the Ofek Unit responsible for the military's target bank and for the development of systems in the Air Force; the Matzpen Unit, the largest software body in the Israeli Military responsible for the development of operational systems and combat support systems; and the Military Attorney's Office.
Additionally, Microsoft works in collaboration with the Israeli military’s Mamram Unit, an abbreviation for the Center of Computing and Information Systems, in the Computer and IT Directorate. Among others, the unit developed and operates the Israeli military cloud used to operate the Israeli military's "target bank", which has been used in the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and a platform that enables intelligence gathering.
Rolling Stone System
Microsoft provides Azure cloud services, various Office applications, and the Microsoft CRM system to maintain the Israeli military's "Rolling Stone" system, which is used to manage and control the Palestinian population and movement registry in the West Bank and Gaza. The system is operated by the Israeli military's ICT and Cyber Unit for collecting data on Palestinian residents and monitoring their movement through checkpoints.
Services to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories
In March 2025, the Israeli military’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) published a public tender for the establishment of a call center to manage public inquiries for the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the West Bank and the Gaza District Coordination and Liaison (DCL). According to the tender documents, Microsoft Israel provides the ICA with the Microsoft Copilot chatbot system as well as various Office programs and a Microsoft CRM system.
Services to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Al- Munaseq app
Microsoft provides cloud platform services to the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the occupied West Bank, used to facilitate Israel's permit regime to control and monitor Palestinians' movement.
The “al Munaseq” application, the Coordinator in Arabic, is a phone app operated by the Israeli Civil Administration in the occupied West Bank to manage the issuance of movement and work permits for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza under Israel's permit regime. The application was developed by the Israeli military and runs on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. The app is used to manage the issuance of permits and biometric smart cards, which Palestinian residents of the West Bank are required to hold in order to cross Israeli checkpoints, also within the West Bank.
Palestinian residents are required to download the app in order to access their permits and are compelled provide personal information that is stored by the ICA. The app requires to provide name, ID and phone number, as well as to give access to their phone’s IP address, device ID, operating system ID, browser ID, geolocation information, access to the camera and to files stored on the mobile device, consent to the extraction and storage of the data by the Israeli military, and of sharing the information with third parties such as other Israeli government and security authorities. For some actions in the app, a location and a photo must be provided.
Palestinian residents of the West Bank are also required to use the app to schedule an appointment at the military District Coordination and Liaison Office (DCO) to issue a resident card and a smart card, which they are required to hold in order to enter and stay in the “Seam Zone” area of the occupied West Bank. The Seam Zone is an area between the Israeli Separation Wall in the occupied West Bank and the Green Line that has been declared a closed zone by the Israeli military, where Palestinian residents are required by the Israeli military to carry smart cards issued by the ICA. Palestinians are also required to use the app to issue the permits needed to cross the Green Line for medical purposes, family visits, travel abroad, etc., as part of Israel's oppressive permit regime. In addition, Palestinians working inside Israel and in Israeli settlements are required to use the app to access their work permits. For an employment permit, their personal details are uploaded online and available for review by Israeli employers, and the information is transferred to the Ministry of Construction and Housing.
Military Cloud Platform
Microsoft provides its Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform for the Israeli military's public cloud.
The military cloud platform, based on Microsoft Azure, is designed to make the military's work environment accessible on smart devices, including personal computers and mobile phones, and allow secure access to unclassified information for regular and reserve personnel.
In April 2023, the IMOD published an integration tender for the provision of Microsoft 365 services, among others, to the Israeli military worth tens of millions of NIS for a period of three years, with an option for extension. The tender was led by the Mamram Unit, the military's Central Computing System Unit, in cooperation with the ICT Corps. As part of the agreement, Cellcom was selected to manage services from the Azure-based military cloud platform.
Microsoft Azure Servers
Microsoft Azure servers were also used to establish military applications developed by the Israeli military IT and Cyber Defense Division. The company provided the military with servers to store the applications' information, and senior programmers of the company guided and advised in the development process.
Services to the Digital and IT Division
Microsoft provides cloud infrastructure for the Digital and Information Technologies Division at the Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for the development and maintenance of information systems, cyber protection, data management, and technological innovation of all of the Ministry of Defense's core systems, integrating advanced artificial intelligence solutions.
Microsoft Smart Glasses
In 2016, the Israeli military published a video presenting its use of Microsoft’s augmented reality smart glasses, Microsoft Hololens, for augmented battlefield training to help with battlefield strategy and training.
Collaborations with the Israeli Military
In September 2023, Microsoft participated in the annual conference of Mamram unit's graduates with a lecture given by a representative from Microsoft Southeast Europe.
In August 2023, a developer conference was held at Microsoft Israel offices with the Shahar Unit, the software house for organizational systems of the Israel military combat management and support under the ICT Division. About 150 soldiers, officers and consultants from a selection of development frameworks in the army participated in the conference, and lectures and professional discussions were held on Kubernetes, React, cyber defense, testing, knowledge management and innovation.
In July 2023, Microsoft Israel R&D Center's chief scientist participated in a conference held at Ben Gurion University at the initiative of the Mamram Unit alumni association on the issue of Artificial Intelligence and the integration of information technologies in the Israeli military. The commander of the Lotem Unit, the Israeli military brigade for operational technological strengthening, also participated in the conference.
Courses for the Israeli military
In April 2024, Microsoft Israel hosted a group from the "Combatants to Hi-Tech" program, held in collaboration with the Ministry and the Israeli army, for a TypeScript workshop developed in Microsoft, a lecture and a tour given by the company's employees. The "Combatants to Hi-Tech" program is a prestigious program designed to integrate combat fighters into the high-tech industry using their combat experience.
In December 2022, Microsoft Israel launched a free cyber training program for the Israeli military's veterans in collaboration with the Israeli military. The program offers free training courses in the field of information security and Microsoft's cyber solutions for the purpose of integration into cyber security positions in the hi-tech industry.
In 2021, the Israeli military introduced an Artificial Intelligence training course established in partnership with Microsoft, accessible to every soldier from a mobile phone or computer for free. The course was established by the Shiloh Brigade (acronym for Combat Methods and Innovation), which deals with the development of innovative multi-armed combat methods, together with Microsoft and the military Tactical Command College.
In 2021, Microsoft took part in a hackathon of the Israeli military, which took place at a military base, where Israeli soldiers developed new technology for military operational use with the assist of Microsoft mentors. The new developments included a “Settlement Defense” app, designed to assist soldiers guarding Israeli settlements, and a manual weapon calibration system for shooting training for combat soldiers.
In 2007, the Israeli military announced that soldiers in the military’s computing and cyber studies unit can get free training in a Microsoft course that was developed by the company according to the requirements of the military.
In early 2000, Microsoft signed an agreement with the Israeli military to provide programming courses programs that grant soldiers with the company's recognized degrees.
Collaboration with the Israeli Military and the Ministry of Education
Microsoft has worked in cooperation with the Israeli military and the Israeli Ministry of Education to encourage high school students to excellent in computer science and technology. Engineers from the company lecture at schools alongside military officers who give preparatory lectures for military service.
Microsoft collaborated with the Israeli military in “Hadarim” project, which offers high school female students to join a prestigious pre-military program designed to integrate them in high-tech units in the Israeli military.
Software Services
In 2002, Microsoft was contracted to provide unlimited software products and implementation services for the Israeli military, the IMOD and other security forces for a period of 3 years for the amount of $100 million. The contract included cooperation between the company and the military’s software developers.
In 1999, Microsoft signed a NIS 50 million agreement with the Israeli military to regularize the use of Microsoft software in military departments. The agreement constitutes one of the largest software licensing deals ever signed in Israel, at the time. An additional agreement was signed to formalize the use of Microsoft software systems in the military and Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Services to Settlements
Ariel University
Microsoft provides its products and services to Ariel University, located in the settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank. The university offers Microsoft certification courses that grant an international certificate recognized by the company.
The Ariel Engineering College of Technology, also known as the Ariel Engineering Center, based at the Ariel University campus, is recognized as an IT ACADEMY by Microsoft and is authorized to grant certification on behalf of the company. The certification is done under the supervision of Microsoft, and the course includes preparation for the certification exams required by Microsoft.
In January 2025, Microsoft Israel hosted students from the Software Engineering Department at Ariel University for a tour of the company's campus. The company gave the students a lecture on cybersecurity and information security and assistance in preparing for job interviews for successfully integrating into the high-tech industry.
Additionally, Microsoft grants free use of its software applications to students at Ariel University. Every student at the university is entitled to receive the full Office 365 software package and Microsoft Teams for free use on their personal computers, tablets, and smartphones, free of charge for the entire duration of their studies.
In September 2022, Ariel University published a call for three Microsoft research grants for researchers from Israeli universities. Microsoft has offered three research grants to researchers from Israeli universities in collaboration with the Inter-University Computation Center, which the head of the Computer and Information Systems Division at Ariel University is on its executive committee.
In July 2022, Microsoft Israel hosted the Ariel hackathon (Hack-AU) in its offices with the participation of 150 students from the university and 40 professional mentors in various fields.
In May 2022, Microsoft hosted the Ariel University hackathon, organized by Ariel University and the Ariel Student Association.
Ma’ale Adumim Department of Education
In 2019, the Education Department of Ma'ale Adumim settlement entered a joint venture with Microsoft to implement the use of Microsoft applications for all students and teachers in schools in the settlement, with trainings held by representatives of Microsoft.
Services to the Israel Police
Microsoft provides products and cloud services to the Ministry of National Security (formerly the Ministry of Public Security), including to the Israel Police and Israel Prison Service.
As part of an agreement between Microsoft and the Israeli government, Microsoft products are embedded as an integral part of the Israel Police’s computer systems and form the basis and infrastructure for additional systems that the police use regularly. The police uses Microsoft Azure cloud services as a platform for administrative and operational cloud services.
In November 2025, Microsoft was contracted, with exemption from tender, as the sole supplier to provide the ministry with maintenance and licensing services for Microsoft products from January 2026 until the end of December 2028 for USD 550,000.
Microsoft software and services are widely deployed in the ministry's core systems and other systems, including Microsoft SQL, RDS, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Project, System Center, and Visio systems.
In August 2024, the Israel Police published a tender for the purchase of Microsoft Azure Active Directory licensing. According to the tender brochure, as a prerequisite for participation in the tender, the bidder must be an authorized reseller of Microsoft for the supply of its products and licenses in Israel.
The Israel Police use Microsoft Tenant, which provides a secure digital space within Microsoft's cloud (like Azure or Microsoft 365), and serves as a central hub for all users, devices, data, and licenses.
In January 2024, Microsoft Israel was contracted by the Israel Police as sole supplier, with an exemption from tender, to provide Microsoft Premier expert services and maintenance until the end of December 2026 for NIS 3,600,000. Also in January 2024, the Israel Police contracted Ness A.T. for the purchase of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Between 2019 and the end of 2022, the Israel Police contracted Ness A.T. for the purchase of licensing for Microsoft products for NIS 16,000,000.
In December 2022, Microsoft Israel was contracted, with an exemption from tender, by the Israeli Police to provide Microsoft Azure Cloud Services for NIS 4 million for six months starting January 2023. Also in December 2022, the company was contracted with an exemption from tenders by the Israeli Police to provide licensing for Microsoft products for NIS 16 million from January 2023 until December 2025.
In 2021, Microsoft was contracted to be the sole supplier of software support services for Israel police for the amount of NIS 250,000. In 2020, the company was contracted to provide cloud services for Israel Police for the amount of NIS 7 million. In 2019, the company was contracted to provide Microsoft Azure cloud services for NIS 3.5 million.
Services to the Israel Prions Service
Microsoft provides its licensed products to the Israel Prison Service (IPS).
In April 2024, Microsoft Israel was contracted by the Israel Prison Service as sole supplier, with an exemption from tender, to provide Premier support services until the April 2027 for NIS 2,674,620.
In 2021, Microsoft was contracted to provide software consulting services for the Israel Prison Service for the year 2022, for the amount of NIS 796,415. In 2020, the company was contracted to provide the same services for the amount of NIS 793,893. In 2019, the company was contracted to be the sole supplier of computing products for IPS until 2022. Between 2017 and 2019, the company was contracted to provide software and servers support and consulting services for IPS.
Services to the Population and Immigration Authority
In December 2025, the Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA) contracted Microsoft Israel as the sole supplier of Microsoft products for a period of 3 years, from January 2026 to the end of December 2028, for NIS 2,065,000. The Population and Immigration Authority makes extensive use of Microsoft products, including Visio, Project, SharePoint, SQL technologies and servers, which are widely deployed in the authority's core systems.
Services to the Israeli Government
The Israeli government has an agreement with Microsoft that authorizes any government office to purchase Microsoft products from one of the company’s authorized suppliers, with almost no restriction. In 2010, the Government Procurement Administration in the Accountant General's Division signed a central agreement with Microsoft for approximately NIS 300 million over three years, for the purchase of licenses for operating systems and Office for workstations, licenses for servers and other additional products for all government ministries and authorized units.
Naqab
In June 2023, Microsoft opened a new office in the hi-tech park “Gav-Yam” in the city of Be'er Sheva in the Naqab. The industrial park is located next to the Israeli military telecommunication base and Computer Service Directorate campus, and was built as part of a Southern Relocation plan led by the Israeli Ministry of Defense. This military and industrial development plan was designed to relocate technology companies alongside military elite tech units to the Naqab in order to enhance the integration of soldiers from Cyber units in work in high-tech companies at the end of their service. This project is part of a greater attempt to strengthen Jewish settlement and development in the Naqab while Palestinian Bedouin communities in the region face forced displacement and de-development by Israeli authorities. For more on Development & Military Projects in the Naqab see Who Profits’ interactive map: Tools of Dispossession in the Naqab.
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Microsoft
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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation, one of the largest IT companies in the world.
The company is engaged in the development of products, services and devices of digital technology, artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Company products include Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Teams, Azure, GitHub, LinkedIn, Skype, Dynamics, Xbox, and Nuance.
Microsoft has a history of deep engagement with the Israeli high-tech industry and close ties to the Israeli military.
Through its fully-owned Israeli subsidiaries, the company provides services to all Israeli government offices, including the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD), the Ministry of National Security, and the Population and Immigration Authority. The company provides a wide range of software and cloud services to the Israeli military and security bodies in Israel, including the Israel Police and the Israel Prison Service.
Microsoft Israel is one of the three strategic centers of Microsoft worldwide, and one of the company's largest leased international properties spaces. In November 2023, Microsoft launched its first cloud region in Israel, with an estimated investment of hundreds of millions of USD.
Services to the Israeli Military
Microsoft provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with software, professional services, cloud computing and cloud storage services, and artificial intelligence tools.
Microsoft has provided the Israeli military with artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing services that were used for mass surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, and for targeting airstrikes in Gaza during the Genocide.
Cloud-based Surveillance System
Microsoft provides cloud storage services to the Israeli military, which have been used for mass surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Microsoft Azure cloud-based storage platform was used for the storage of data files of millions of phone calls obtained through broad mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank by the Israeli Intelligence Corps unit, Unit 8200.
For over a period of at least three years, Microsoft servers were used to store recordings of millions of phone calls made daily by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, which were collected by the unit for expansive and intrusive surveillance of Palestinians. Microsoft worked closely with Unit 8200 engineers to design and implement security measures fitted for the unit's security standards and provided the unit with access to a customized and segregated area on its Azure cloud platform to store data on Microsoft servers. According to media reports, the recordings held in Microsoft Azure were used to identify bombing targets for airstrikes in Gaza during the Genocide and for carrying out military activities in the West Bank. In September 2025, Microsoft announced it had blocked Unit 8200's access to some of its cloud services, following an exposure by the Guardian.
Gaza Genocide
Microsoft has provided various products and services to dozens of units in the Israeli military during the Gaza Genocide. Microsoft professional teams have worked closely with Israeli military units to develop products and systems, and Microsoft personnel provided professional workshops for soldiers.
According to journalistic reports, leaked commercial records revealed that between October 2023 and January 2025, Microsoft provided cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the IMOD for dozens of units in the Israeli military in the air, ground, and naval forces, and the intelligence corps. The artificial intelligence services included translation, OpenAI's language model, a speech-to-text tool, an automatic document analysis tool, and other tools. Such units included Unit 8200 of the Intelligence Corps; Unit 81 technology unit of the Special Operations Directorate; the Sapir Unit of the Intelligence IT Division; the Ofek Unit responsible for the military's target bank and for the development of systems in the Air Force; the Matzpen Unit, the largest software body in the Israeli Military responsible for the development of operational systems and combat support systems; and the Military Attorney's Office.
Additionally, Microsoft works in collaboration with the Israeli military’s Mamram Unit, an abbreviation for the Center of Computing and Information Systems, in the Computer and IT Directorate. Among others, the unit developed and operates the Israeli military cloud used to operate the Israeli military's "target bank", which has been used in the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and a platform that enables intelligence gathering.
Rolling Stone System
Microsoft provides Azure cloud services, various Office applications, and the Microsoft CRM system to maintain the Israeli military's "Rolling Stone" system, which is used to manage and control the Palestinian population and movement registry in the West Bank and Gaza. The system is operated by the Israeli military's ICT and Cyber Unit for collecting data on Palestinian residents and monitoring their movement through checkpoints.
Services to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories
In March 2025, the Israeli military’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) published a public tender for the establishment of a call center to manage public inquiries for the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the West Bank and the Gaza District Coordination and Liaison (DCL). According to the tender documents, Microsoft Israel provides the ICA with the Microsoft Copilot chatbot system as well as various Office programs and a Microsoft CRM system.
Services to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Al- Munaseq app
Microsoft provides cloud platform services to the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the occupied West Bank, used to facilitate Israel's permit regime to control and monitor Palestinians' movement.
The “al Munaseq” application, the Coordinator in Arabic, is a phone app operated by the Israeli Civil Administration in the occupied West Bank to manage the issuance of movement and work permits for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza under Israel's permit regime. The application was developed by the Israeli military and runs on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. The app is used to manage the issuance of permits and biometric smart cards, which Palestinian residents of the West Bank are required to hold in order to cross Israeli checkpoints, also within the West Bank.
Palestinian residents are required to download the app in order to access their permits and are compelled provide personal information that is stored by the ICA. The app requires to provide name, ID and phone number, as well as to give access to their phone’s IP address, device ID, operating system ID, browser ID, geolocation information, access to the camera and to files stored on the mobile device, consent to the extraction and storage of the data by the Israeli military, and of sharing the information with third parties such as other Israeli government and security authorities. For some actions in the app, a location and a photo must be provided.
Palestinian residents of the West Bank are also required to use the app to schedule an appointment at the military District Coordination and Liaison Office (DCO) to issue a resident card and a smart card, which they are required to hold in order to enter and stay in the “Seam Zone” area of the occupied West Bank. The Seam Zone is an area between the Israeli Separation Wall in the occupied West Bank and the Green Line that has been declared a closed zone by the Israeli military, where Palestinian residents are required by the Israeli military to carry smart cards issued by the ICA. Palestinians are also required to use the app to issue the permits needed to cross the Green Line for medical purposes, family visits, travel abroad, etc., as part of Israel's oppressive permit regime. In addition, Palestinians working inside Israel and in Israeli settlements are required to use the app to access their work permits. For an employment permit, their personal details are uploaded online and available for review by Israeli employers, and the information is transferred to the Ministry of Construction and Housing.
Military Cloud Platform
Microsoft provides its Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform for the Israeli military's public cloud.
The military cloud platform, based on Microsoft Azure, is designed to make the military's work environment accessible on smart devices, including personal computers and mobile phones, and allow secure access to unclassified information for regular and reserve personnel.
In April 2023, the IMOD published an integration tender for the provision of Microsoft 365 services, among others, to the Israeli military worth tens of millions of NIS for a period of three years, with an option for extension. The tender was led by the Mamram Unit, the military's Central Computing System Unit, in cooperation with the ICT Corps. As part of the agreement, Cellcom was selected to manage services from the Azure-based military cloud platform.
Microsoft Azure Servers
Microsoft Azure servers were also used to establish military applications developed by the Israeli military IT and Cyber Defense Division. The company provided the military with servers to store the applications' information, and senior programmers of the company guided and advised in the development process.
Services to the Digital and IT Division
Microsoft provides cloud infrastructure for the Digital and Information Technologies Division at the Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for the development and maintenance of information systems, cyber protection, data management, and technological innovation of all of the Ministry of Defense's core systems, integrating advanced artificial intelligence solutions.
Microsoft Smart Glasses
In 2016, the Israeli military published a video presenting its use of Microsoft’s augmented reality smart glasses, Microsoft Hololens, for augmented battlefield training to help with battlefield strategy and training.
Collaborations with the Israeli Military
In September 2023, Microsoft participated in the annual conference of Mamram unit's graduates with a lecture given by a representative from Microsoft Southeast Europe.
In August 2023, a developer conference was held at Microsoft Israel offices with the Shahar Unit, the software house for organizational systems of the Israel military combat management and support under the ICT Division. About 150 soldiers, officers and consultants from a selection of development frameworks in the army participated in the conference, and lectures and professional discussions were held on Kubernetes, React, cyber defense, testing, knowledge management and innovation.
In July 2023, Microsoft Israel R&D Center's chief scientist participated in a conference held at Ben Gurion University at the initiative of the Mamram Unit alumni association on the issue of Artificial Intelligence and the integration of information technologies in the Israeli military. The commander of the Lotem Unit, the Israeli military brigade for operational technological strengthening, also participated in the conference.
Courses for the Israeli military
In April 2024, Microsoft Israel hosted a group from the "Combatants to Hi-Tech" program, held in collaboration with the Ministry and the Israeli army, for a TypeScript workshop developed in Microsoft, a lecture and a tour given by the company's employees. The "Combatants to Hi-Tech" program is a prestigious program designed to integrate combat fighters into the high-tech industry using their combat experience.
In December 2022, Microsoft Israel launched a free cyber training program for the Israeli military's veterans in collaboration with the Israeli military. The program offers free training courses in the field of information security and Microsoft's cyber solutions for the purpose of integration into cyber security positions in the hi-tech industry.
In 2021, the Israeli military introduced an Artificial Intelligence training course established in partnership with Microsoft, accessible to every soldier from a mobile phone or computer for free. The course was established by the Shiloh Brigade (acronym for Combat Methods and Innovation), which deals with the development of innovative multi-armed combat methods, together with Microsoft and the military Tactical Command College.
In 2021, Microsoft took part in a hackathon of the Israeli military, which took place at a military base, where Israeli soldiers developed new technology for military operational use with the assist of Microsoft mentors. The new developments included a “Settlement Defense” app, designed to assist soldiers guarding Israeli settlements, and a manual weapon calibration system for shooting training for combat soldiers.
In 2007, the Israeli military announced that soldiers in the military’s computing and cyber studies unit can get free training in a Microsoft course that was developed by the company according to the requirements of the military.
In early 2000, Microsoft signed an agreement with the Israeli military to provide programming courses programs that grant soldiers with the company's recognized degrees.
Collaboration with the Israeli Military and the Ministry of Education
Microsoft has worked in cooperation with the Israeli military and the Israeli Ministry of Education to encourage high school students to excellent in computer science and technology. Engineers from the company lecture at schools alongside military officers who give preparatory lectures for military service.
Microsoft collaborated with the Israeli military in “Hadarim” project, which offers high school female students to join a prestigious pre-military program designed to integrate them in high-tech units in the Israeli military.
Software Services
In 2002, Microsoft was contracted to provide unlimited software products and implementation services for the Israeli military, the IMOD and other security forces for a period of 3 years for the amount of $100 million. The contract included cooperation between the company and the military’s software developers.
In 1999, Microsoft signed a NIS 50 million agreement with the Israeli military to regularize the use of Microsoft software in military departments. The agreement constitutes one of the largest software licensing deals ever signed in Israel, at the time. An additional agreement was signed to formalize the use of Microsoft software systems in the military and Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Services to Settlements
Ariel University
Microsoft provides its products and services to Ariel University, located in the settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank. The university offers Microsoft certification courses that grant an international certificate recognized by the company.
The Ariel Engineering College of Technology, also known as the Ariel Engineering Center, based at the Ariel University campus, is recognized as an IT ACADEMY by Microsoft and is authorized to grant certification on behalf of the company. The certification is done under the supervision of Microsoft, and the course includes preparation for the certification exams required by Microsoft.
In January 2025, Microsoft Israel hosted students from the Software Engineering Department at Ariel University for a tour of the company's campus. The company gave the students a lecture on cybersecurity and information security and assistance in preparing for job interviews for successfully integrating into the high-tech industry.
Additionally, Microsoft grants free use of its software applications to students at Ariel University. Every student at the university is entitled to receive the full Office 365 software package and Microsoft Teams for free use on their personal computers, tablets, and smartphones, free of charge for the entire duration of their studies.
In September 2022, Ariel University published a call for three Microsoft research grants for researchers from Israeli universities. Microsoft has offered three research grants to researchers from Israeli universities in collaboration with the Inter-University Computation Center, which the head of the Computer and Information Systems Division at Ariel University is on its executive committee.
In July 2022, Microsoft Israel hosted the Ariel hackathon (Hack-AU) in its offices with the participation of 150 students from the university and 40 professional mentors in various fields.
In May 2022, Microsoft hosted the Ariel University hackathon, organized by Ariel University and the Ariel Student Association.
Ma’ale Adumim Department of Education
In 2019, the Education Department of Ma'ale Adumim settlement entered a joint venture with Microsoft to implement the use of Microsoft applications for all students and teachers in schools in the settlement, with trainings held by representatives of Microsoft.
Services to the Israel Police
Microsoft provides products and cloud services to the Ministry of National Security (formerly the Ministry of Public Security), including to the Israel Police and Israel Prison Service.
As part of an agreement between Microsoft and the Israeli government, Microsoft products are embedded as an integral part of the Israel Police’s computer systems and form the basis and infrastructure for additional systems that the police use regularly. The police uses Microsoft Azure cloud services as a platform for administrative and operational cloud services.
In November 2025, Microsoft was contracted, with exemption from tender, as the sole supplier to provide the ministry with maintenance and licensing services for Microsoft products from January 2026 until the end of December 2028 for USD 550,000.
Microsoft software and services are widely deployed in the ministry's core systems and other systems, including Microsoft SQL, RDS, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Project, System Center, and Visio systems.
In August 2024, the Israel Police published a tender for the purchase of Microsoft Azure Active Directory licensing. According to the tender brochure, as a prerequisite for participation in the tender, the bidder must be an authorized reseller of Microsoft for the supply of its products and licenses in Israel.
The Israel Police use Microsoft Tenant, which provides a secure digital space within Microsoft's cloud (like Azure or Microsoft 365), and serves as a central hub for all users, devices, data, and licenses.
In January 2024, Microsoft Israel was contracted by the Israel Police as sole supplier, with an exemption from tender, to provide Microsoft Premier expert services and maintenance until the end of December 2026 for NIS 3,600,000. Also in January 2024, the Israel Police contracted Ness A.T. for the purchase of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Between 2019 and the end of 2022, the Israel Police contracted Ness A.T. for the purchase of licensing for Microsoft products for NIS 16,000,000.
In December 2022, Microsoft Israel was contracted, with an exemption from tender, by the Israeli Police to provide Microsoft Azure Cloud Services for NIS 4 million for six months starting January 2023. Also in December 2022, the company was contracted with an exemption from tenders by the Israeli Police to provide licensing for Microsoft products for NIS 16 million from January 2023 until December 2025.
In 2021, Microsoft was contracted to be the sole supplier of software support services for Israel police for the amount of NIS 250,000. In 2020, the company was contracted to provide cloud services for Israel Police for the amount of NIS 7 million. In 2019, the company was contracted to provide Microsoft Azure cloud services for NIS 3.5 million.
Services to the Israel Prions Service
Microsoft provides its licensed products to the Israel Prison Service (IPS).
In April 2024, Microsoft Israel was contracted by the Israel Prison Service as sole supplier, with an exemption from tender, to provide Premier support services until the April 2027 for NIS 2,674,620.
In 2021, Microsoft was contracted to provide software consulting services for the Israel Prison Service for the year 2022, for the amount of NIS 796,415. In 2020, the company was contracted to provide the same services for the amount of NIS 793,893. In 2019, the company was contracted to be the sole supplier of computing products for IPS until 2022. Between 2017 and 2019, the company was contracted to provide software and servers support and consulting services for IPS.
Services to the Population and Immigration Authority
In December 2025, the Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA) contracted Microsoft Israel as the sole supplier of Microsoft products for a period of 3 years, from January 2026 to the end of December 2028, for NIS 2,065,000. The Population and Immigration Authority makes extensive use of Microsoft products, including Visio, Project, SharePoint, SQL technologies and servers, which are widely deployed in the authority's core systems.
Services to the Israeli Government
The Israeli government has an agreement with Microsoft that authorizes any government office to purchase Microsoft products from one of the company’s authorized suppliers, with almost no restriction. In 2010, the Government Procurement Administration in the Accountant General's Division signed a central agreement with Microsoft for approximately NIS 300 million over three years, for the purchase of licenses for operating systems and Office for workstations, licenses for servers and other additional products for all government ministries and authorized units.
Naqab
In June 2023, Microsoft opened a new office in the hi-tech park “Gav-Yam” in the city of Be'er Sheva in the Naqab. The industrial park is located next to the Israeli military telecommunication base and Computer Service Directorate campus, and was built as part of a Southern Relocation plan led by the Israeli Ministry of Defense. This military and industrial development plan was designed to relocate technology companies alongside military elite tech units to the Naqab in order to enhance the integration of soldiers from Cyber units in work in high-tech companies at the end of their service. This project is part of a greater attempt to strengthen Jewish settlement and development in the Naqab while Palestinian Bedouin communities in the region face forced displacement and de-development by Israeli authorities. For more on Development & Military Projects in the Naqab see Who Profits’ interactive map: Tools of Dispossession in the Naqab.
Ownership
The company is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol: MSFT.
Major shareholders include: Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co. (9.44%), BlackRock Advisors LLC (5.94%), STATE STREET CORPORATION (4.03%), Fidelity Management & Research Co. LLC (2.82%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.43%), JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc. (2.14%), T. Rowe Price International Ltd. (1.77%), BlackRock Life Ltd. (1.73%), Eaton Vance Management (1.61%), Bill Gates (1.38%).
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: Satya Nadella
Subsidiaries
The company has over 250 subsidiaries worldwide, among them: Microsoft Ireland Research Unlimited Company, Microsoft Global Finance Unlimited Company, Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft Online, Inc., LinkedIn Corporation, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Activision Blizzard, Inc., Activision Publishing, Inc.
Israeli subsidiaries: Microsoft Israel Ltd. (100%), Microsoft 4772 Israel Ltd. (100%), Microsoft Israel Research and Development Ltd. (100%)
Partners
Cellcom, Ness AT, Amazon, Google, IBM, Cisco Systems, Motorola Solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Dell Technologies, Oracle, Palantir Technologies, Elbit Systems.
* This section refers to the company's general business partners
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