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Head office: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Tel.: +1(650)-253-0000Israeli office: Electra Tower, Yigal Alon St 98, Tel Aviv-Jaffa 6789141, Israel.
Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Google is fully owned by Alphabet Inc., which was formed in 2015 as a corporate restructuring of Google, and operates as a holding company that fully owns Google.
Google products include Android and Chrome operating systems, Gemini AI model, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Pixel, Google Search, YouTube, and Google Cloud products, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace.
Google’s cloud computing division, Google Cloud, is a main provider of comprehensive cloud infrastructure and services to the Israeli government, including to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Israeli military, the Israel Police, and Israel Prison Service. The company provides the Israeli military with cloud computing services and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools that have been used for operational capabilities during the genocide in Gaza.
Nimbus Project
In 2021, Google Cloud, along with Amazon Web Services (AWS), was awarded the Israeli government's large-scale Nimbus cloud tender, designed to provide comprehensive cloud services, including cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data storage, to the Israeli government and defense establishment, including the Israeli military. The project includes the formation of infrastructure for the digital transfer of vast quantities of data belonging to Israeli government agencies, the military, and security services onto the companies’ cloud servers.
Through its cloud platform, Google provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with mass surveillance capabilities and machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, including facial recognition technology, automatic image classification, object tracking, and sentiment analysis that is used to assess the emotional content of images, speech, and writing.
The contract, valid from May 2021 to May 2028 with an option to extend for an additional 132 months, contains the establishment of local cloud sites in Israel with an initial investment estimated at NIS 4 billion, including the purchase and establishment of cloud infrastructure, the formulation of government policy for integration and the transition to the cloud, and the implementation of control and optimization of cloud activity. The project allows Israeli government ministries and security agencies to use the companies' servers and services in customized, secure local cloud data centers within Israeli borders that are under Israeli law, instead of cloud services provided by Google data centers abroad.
In January 2026, the Israeli government announced the implementation of Google Workspace cloud computing services in all government ministries as part of the Nimbus project. The system will be used by government offices and units as the central tool for managing emails, documents, calendars, meetings and organizational communications, and allow state employees to use advanced artificial intelligence tools as part of the joint activity between Google and the government.
In February 2024, amid the genocide in Gaza, the head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate said that "because of the Nimbus public cloud, phenomenal things are happening in battle."
In October 2022, Google began operating its first local cloud region in Israel. The local cloud site allows Israeli government ministries and security agencies to use company servers and services, with data processed and stored within the borders of the State of Israel under strict information security guidelines and under the guidance of relevant government authorities. According to Google, its Israeli cloud region is estimated to add USD 7.6 billion to Israel's GDP between 2022 and 2030.
Cloud Services to Israeli Weapon Manufacturers
Under the Nimbus tender, Google is to provide cloud services to the Israeli state-owned weapons manufacturers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Elta, all of which provide weapon systems to the Israeli military, including weapon systems that have been widely used in Gaza, such as the Merkava Mark 4 tanks.
Services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense
Google provides artificial intelligence (AI) technology, cloud computing services and language models development to the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) and the Israeli military, including the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the occupied West Bank. The company provided the Israeli military with advanced AI tools and cloud computing services during the Gaza genocide.
Google 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’s core systems, integrating advanced artificial intelligence solutions.
Google has previously provided the IMOD's Directorate of Defense Research & Development with development services for large language models adapted to Hebrew and Arabic.
Gaza Genocide
Google provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with cloud computing services and computing infrastructure, which allow the ministry to store and process data and access AI services. Since October 2023, Google Cloud has provided Israeli military units with AI technology and services that are used for operational capabilities on an unprecedented scale.
In August 2025, a former Google employee filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence technology was used by an Israeli military contractor. According to documents included in the complaint, in 2024, amid the Gaza genocide, Google assisted an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage of the Gaza Strip, violating the company's policy prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence to assist in combat or surveillance. Google's cloud division staff provided technical support and conducted internal tests to make Gemini's technology more accurate for the military in response to a request from an official Israeli military email address to help analyze aerial photographs to identify complex objects, including armored vehicles and drones.
Services to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Google's app platform, Google Play (Play Store), hosts the Israeli military's “al Munasseq” application, operated by the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) 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 app requires Palestinian residents to provide the Israeli military with their personal information such as name, ID, and phone number, and 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 more on the app, see the Microsoft company profile.
Israel's Government Digital Media Campaign
In August 2025, amid widespread famine in Gaza following a long Israeli blockade on the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, YouTube published a promoted video funded by the Israeli Foreign Ministry claiming that there is food in Gaza and there is no hunger crisis, as part of a sponsored campaign by the Israeli government on YouTube, which is owned by Google. In June 2025, Google was contracted by Israel Government Advertising Agency, with exemption from tender, as part of a contract with digital media providers for "international awareness campaigns" for a total of NIS 150 million. The contract included services from June 2025 to the end of December 2025 from Google's marketing platform, Google DV (Display & Video) 360, for NIS 90 million, and Google's online video sharing platform, YouTube, for NIS 60 million.
Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Google is fully owned by Alphabet Inc., which was formed in 2015 as a corporate restructuring of Google, and operates as a holding company that fully owns Google.
Google products include Android and Chrome operating systems, Gemini AI model, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Pixel, Google Search, YouTube, and Google Cloud products, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace.
Google’s cloud computing division, Google Cloud, is a main provider of comprehensive cloud infrastructure and services to the Israeli government, including to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Israeli military, the Israel Police, and Israel Prison Service. The company provides the Israeli military with cloud computing services and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools that have been used for operational capabilities during the genocide in Gaza.
Nimbus Project
In 2021, Google Cloud, along with Amazon Web Services (AWS), was awarded the Israeli government's large-scale Nimbus cloud tender, designed to provide comprehensive cloud services, including cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data storage, to the Israeli government and defense establishment, including the Israeli military. The project includes the formation of infrastructure for the digital transfer of vast quantities of data belonging to Israeli government agencies, the military, and security services onto the companies’ cloud servers.
Through its cloud platform, Google provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with mass surveillance capabilities and machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, including facial recognition technology, automatic image classification, object tracking, and sentiment analysis that is used to assess the emotional content of images, speech, and writing.
The contract, valid from May 2021 to May 2028 with an option to extend for an additional 132 months, contains the establishment of local cloud sites in Israel with an initial investment estimated at NIS 4 billion, including the purchase and establishment of cloud infrastructure, the formulation of government policy for integration and the transition to the cloud, and the implementation of control and optimization of cloud activity. The project allows Israeli government ministries and security agencies to use the companies' servers and services in customized, secure local cloud data centers within Israeli borders that are under Israeli law, instead of cloud services provided by Google data centers abroad.
In January 2026, the Israeli government announced the implementation of Google Workspace cloud computing services in all government ministries as part of the Nimbus project. The system will be used by government offices and units as the central tool for managing emails, documents, calendars, meetings and organizational communications, and allow state employees to use advanced artificial intelligence tools as part of the joint activity between Google and the government.
In February 2024, amid the genocide in Gaza, the head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate said that "because of the Nimbus public cloud, phenomenal things are happening in battle."
In October 2022, Google began operating its first local cloud region in Israel. The local cloud site allows Israeli government ministries and security agencies to use company servers and services, with data processed and stored within the borders of the State of Israel under strict information security guidelines and under the guidance of relevant government authorities. According to Google, its Israeli cloud region is estimated to add USD 7.6 billion to Israel's GDP between 2022 and 2030.
Cloud Services to Israeli Weapon Manufacturers
Under the Nimbus tender, Google is to provide cloud services to the Israeli state-owned weapons manufacturers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Elta, all of which provide weapon systems to the Israeli military, including weapon systems that have been widely used in Gaza, such as the Merkava Mark 4 tanks.
Services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense
Google provides artificial intelligence (AI) technology, cloud computing services and language models development to the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) and the Israeli military, including the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the occupied West Bank. The company provided the Israeli military with advanced AI tools and cloud computing services during the Gaza genocide.
Google 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’s core systems, integrating advanced artificial intelligence solutions.
Google has previously provided the IMOD's Directorate of Defense Research & Development with development services for large language models adapted to Hebrew and Arabic.
Gaza Genocide
Google provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with cloud computing services and computing infrastructure, which allow the ministry to store and process data and access AI services. Since October 2023, Google Cloud has provided Israeli military units with AI technology and services that are used for operational capabilities on an unprecedented scale.
In August 2025, a former Google employee filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence technology was used by an Israeli military contractor. According to documents included in the complaint, in 2024, amid the Gaza genocide, Google assisted an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage of the Gaza Strip, violating the company's policy prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence to assist in combat or surveillance. Google's cloud division staff provided technical support and conducted internal tests to make Gemini's technology more accurate for the military in response to a request from an official Israeli military email address to help analyze aerial photographs to identify complex objects, including armored vehicles and drones.
Services to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Google's app platform, Google Play (Play Store), hosts the Israeli military's “al Munasseq” application, operated by the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) 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 app requires Palestinian residents to provide the Israeli military with their personal information such as name, ID, and phone number, and 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 more on the app, see the Microsoft company profile.
Israel's Government Digital Media Campaign
In August 2025, amid widespread famine in Gaza following a long Israeli blockade on the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, YouTube published a promoted video funded by the Israeli Foreign Ministry claiming that there is food in Gaza and there is no hunger crisis, as part of a sponsored campaign by the Israeli government on YouTube, which is owned by Google. In June 2025, Google was contracted by Israel Government Advertising Agency, with exemption from tender, as part of a contract with digital media providers for "international awareness campaigns" for a total of NIS 150 million. The contract included services from June 2025 to the end of December 2025 from Google's marketing platform, Google DV (Display & Video) 360, for NIS 90 million, and Google's online video sharing platform, YouTube, for NIS 60 million.
Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Google is fully owned by Alphabet Inc., which was formed in 2015 as a corporate restructuring of Google, and operates as a holding company that fully owns Google.
Google products include Android and Chrome operating systems, Gemini AI model, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Pixel, Google Search, YouTube, and Google Cloud products, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace.
Google’s cloud computing division, Google Cloud, is a main provider of comprehensive cloud infrastructure and services to the Israeli government, including to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Israeli military, the Israel Police, and Israel Prison Service. The company provides the Israeli military with cloud computing services and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools that have been used for operational capabilities during the genocide in Gaza.
Nimbus Project
In 2021, Google Cloud, along with Amazon Web Services (AWS), was awarded the Israeli government's large-scale Nimbus cloud tender, designed to provide comprehensive cloud services, including cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data storage, to the Israeli government and defense establishment, including the Israeli military. The project includes the formation of infrastructure for the digital transfer of vast quantities of data belonging to Israeli government agencies, the military, and security services onto the companies’ cloud servers.
Through its cloud platform, Google provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with mass surveillance capabilities and machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, including facial recognition technology, automatic image classification, object tracking, and sentiment analysis that is used to assess the emotional content of images, speech, and writing.
The contract, valid from May 2021 to May 2028 with an option to extend for an additional 132 months, contains the establishment of local cloud sites in Israel with an initial investment estimated at NIS 4 billion, including the purchase and establishment of cloud infrastructure, the formulation of government policy for integration and the transition to the cloud, and the implementation of control and optimization of cloud activity. The project allows Israeli government ministries and security agencies to use the companies' servers and services in customized, secure local cloud data centers within Israeli borders that are under Israeli law, instead of cloud services provided by Google data centers abroad.
In January 2026, the Israeli government announced the implementation of Google Workspace cloud computing services in all government ministries as part of the Nimbus project. The system will be used by government offices and units as the central tool for managing emails, documents, calendars, meetings and organizational communications, and allow state employees to use advanced artificial intelligence tools as part of the joint activity between Google and the government.
In February 2024, amid the genocide in Gaza, the head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate said that "because of the Nimbus public cloud, phenomenal things are happening in battle."
In October 2022, Google began operating its first local cloud region in Israel. The local cloud site allows Israeli government ministries and security agencies to use company servers and services, with data processed and stored within the borders of the State of Israel under strict information security guidelines and under the guidance of relevant government authorities. According to Google, its Israeli cloud region is estimated to add USD 7.6 billion to Israel's GDP between 2022 and 2030.
Cloud Services to Israeli Weapon Manufacturers
Under the Nimbus tender, Google is to provide cloud services to the Israeli state-owned weapons manufacturers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Elta, all of which provide weapon systems to the Israeli military, including weapon systems that have been widely used in Gaza, such as the Merkava Mark 4 tanks.
Services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense
Google provides artificial intelligence (AI) technology, cloud computing services and language models development to the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) and the Israeli military, including the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the occupied West Bank. The company provided the Israeli military with advanced AI tools and cloud computing services during the Gaza genocide.
Google 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’s core systems, integrating advanced artificial intelligence solutions.
Google has previously provided the IMOD's Directorate of Defense Research & Development with development services for large language models adapted to Hebrew and Arabic.
Gaza Genocide
Google provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with cloud computing services and computing infrastructure, which allow the ministry to store and process data and access AI services. Since October 2023, Google Cloud has provided Israeli military units with AI technology and services that are used for operational capabilities on an unprecedented scale.
In August 2025, a former Google employee filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence technology was used by an Israeli military contractor. According to documents included in the complaint, in 2024, amid the Gaza genocide, Google assisted an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage of the Gaza Strip, violating the company's policy prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence to assist in combat or surveillance. Google's cloud division staff provided technical support and conducted internal tests to make Gemini's technology more accurate for the military in response to a request from an official Israeli military email address to help analyze aerial photographs to identify complex objects, including armored vehicles and drones.
Services to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Google's app platform, Google Play (Play Store), hosts the Israeli military's “al Munasseq” application, operated by the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) 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 app requires Palestinian residents to provide the Israeli military with their personal information such as name, ID, and phone number, and 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 more on the app, see the Microsoft company profile.
Israel's Government Digital Media Campaign
In August 2025, amid widespread famine in Gaza following a long Israeli blockade on the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, YouTube published a promoted video funded by the Israeli Foreign Ministry claiming that there is food in Gaza and there is no hunger crisis, as part of a sponsored campaign by the Israeli government on YouTube, which is owned by Google. In June 2025, Google was contracted by Israel Government Advertising Agency, with exemption from tender, as part of a contract with digital media providers for "international awareness campaigns" for a total of NIS 150 million. The contract included services from June 2025 to the end of December 2025 from Google's marketing platform, Google DV (Display & Video) 360, for NIS 90 million, and Google's online video sharing platform, YouTube, for NIS 60 million.
Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
Head office: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Tel.: +1(650)-253-0000
Israeli office: Electra Tower, Yigal Alon St 98, Tel Aviv-Jaffa 6789141, Israel.
Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Google is fully owned by Alphabet Inc., which was formed in 2015 as a corporate restructuring of Google, and operates as a holding company that fully owns Google.
Google products include Android and Chrome operating systems, Gemini AI model, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Pixel, Google Search, YouTube, and Google Cloud products, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace.
Google’s cloud computing division, Google Cloud, is a main provider of comprehensive cloud infrastructure and services to the Israeli government, including to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Israeli military, the Israel Police, and Israel Prison Service. The company provides the Israeli military with cloud computing services and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools that have been used for operational capabilities during the genocide in Gaza.
Nimbus Project
In 2021, Google Cloud, along with Amazon Web Services (AWS), was awarded the Israeli government's large-scale Nimbus cloud tender, designed to provide comprehensive cloud services, including cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data storage, to the Israeli government and defense establishment, including the Israeli military. The project includes the formation of infrastructure for the digital transfer of vast quantities of data belonging to Israeli government agencies, the military, and security services onto the companies’ cloud servers.
Through its cloud platform, Google provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with mass surveillance capabilities and machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, including facial recognition technology, automatic image classification, object tracking, and sentiment analysis that is used to assess the emotional content of images, speech, and writing.
The contract, valid from May 2021 to May 2028 with an option to extend for an additional 132 months, contains the establishment of local cloud sites in Israel with an initial investment estimated at NIS 4 billion, including the purchase and establishment of cloud infrastructure, the formulation of government policy for integration and the transition to the cloud, and the implementation of control and optimization of cloud activity. The project allows Israeli government ministries and security agencies to use the companies' servers and services in customized, secure local cloud data centers within Israeli borders that are under Israeli law, instead of cloud services provided by Google data centers abroad.
In January 2026, the Israeli government announced the implementation of Google Workspace cloud computing services in all government ministries as part of the Nimbus project. The system will be used by government offices and units as the central tool for managing emails, documents, calendars, meetings and organizational communications, and allow state employees to use advanced artificial intelligence tools as part of the joint activity between Google and the government.
In February 2024, amid the genocide in Gaza, the head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate said that "because of the Nimbus public cloud, phenomenal things are happening in battle."
In October 2022, Google began operating its first local cloud region in Israel. The local cloud site allows Israeli government ministries and security agencies to use company servers and services, with data processed and stored within the borders of the State of Israel under strict information security guidelines and under the guidance of relevant government authorities. According to Google, its Israeli cloud region is estimated to add USD 7.6 billion to Israel's GDP between 2022 and 2030.
Cloud Services to Israeli Weapon Manufacturers
Under the Nimbus tender, Google is to provide cloud services to the Israeli state-owned weapons manufacturers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Elta, all of which provide weapon systems to the Israeli military, including weapon systems that have been widely used in Gaza, such as the Merkava Mark 4 tanks.
Services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense
Google provides artificial intelligence (AI) technology, cloud computing services and language models development to the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) and the Israeli military, including the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) in the occupied West Bank. The company provided the Israeli military with advanced AI tools and cloud computing services during the Gaza genocide.
Google 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’s core systems, integrating advanced artificial intelligence solutions.
Google has previously provided the IMOD's Directorate of Defense Research & Development with development services for large language models adapted to Hebrew and Arabic.
Gaza Genocide
Google provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with cloud computing services and computing infrastructure, which allow the ministry to store and process data and access AI services. Since October 2023, Google Cloud has provided Israeli military units with AI technology and services that are used for operational capabilities on an unprecedented scale.
In August 2025, a former Google employee filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence technology was used by an Israeli military contractor. According to documents included in the complaint, in 2024, amid the Gaza genocide, Google assisted an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage of the Gaza Strip, violating the company's policy prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence to assist in combat or surveillance. Google's cloud division staff provided technical support and conducted internal tests to make Gemini's technology more accurate for the military in response to a request from an official Israeli military email address to help analyze aerial photographs to identify complex objects, including armored vehicles and drones.
Services to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank
Google's app platform, Google Play (Play Store), hosts the Israeli military's “al Munasseq” application, operated by the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) 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 app requires Palestinian residents to provide the Israeli military with their personal information such as name, ID, and phone number, and 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 more on the app, see the Microsoft company profile.
Israel's Government Digital Media Campaign
In August 2025, amid widespread famine in Gaza following a long Israeli blockade on the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, YouTube published a promoted video funded by the Israeli Foreign Ministry claiming that there is food in Gaza and there is no hunger crisis, as part of a sponsored campaign by the Israeli government on YouTube, which is owned by Google. In June 2025, Google was contracted by Israel Government Advertising Agency, with exemption from tender, as part of a contract with digital media providers for "international awareness campaigns" for a total of NIS 150 million. The contract included services from June 2025 to the end of December 2025 from Google's marketing platform, Google DV (Display & Video) 360, for NIS 90 million, and Google's online video sharing platform, YouTube, for NIS 60 million.
Ownership
The company is publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG.
Major shareholders include: The Vanguard Group, Inc. (7.73%), BlackRock, Inc. (6.55%), Larry Page (3.5%), State Street Global Advisors, Inc. (3.47%), Sergey Brin (3.2%), FMR LLC (Fidelity) (2.4%), Capital Research and Management Company (2.25%), Geode Capital Management, LLC (2.07%), T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (1.31%), Norges Bank Investment Management (1.23%), UBS Asset Management AG (1.17%), Northern Trust Global Investment (1%)
Chair of the Board of Directors: John Hennessy
CEO: Sundar Pichai
Subsidiaries
Google LLC, XXVI Holdings Inc., Alphabet Capital US LLC, Google Australia Pty Ltd, Google Canada Corporation, Google France SARL, Google Germany GmbH, Google (Hong Kong) Limited, Google Online India Private Limited, Google Ireland Holdings Limited, Google Ireland Limited, Google Italy S.r.l, Google Japan Inc., Google Korea, LLC, Google Netherlands BV, Google Netherlands Holdings BV, Google Spain S.L., Google Sweden AB, Google Switzerland GmbH, Google UK Limited, Google International LLC, Google LLC, Applied Semantics, Inc., a California Corporation, Ignite Logic, Inc., Kaltix Corporation, Keyhole, LLC, Neotonic Software Corporation, Orkut.com LLC, Picasa LLC, Where2 LLC, Zipdash, Inc.
Israeli subsidiaries: Google Israel Ltd., Google Cloud Israel Ltd.
Additional companies owned by Alphabet Inc. include YouTube, Waze, DoubleClick, Nest, Looker, Fitbit, and Mandiant.
Partners
Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Motorola Solutions, Oracle, Dell Technologies, Meta, Apple
* This section refers to the company's general business partners
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Global Presence
Global Presence
Australia | Belgium | China | Colombia | Czech Republic | Denmark | Finland | France | Germany | Ghana | Greece | Guatemala | India | Indonesia | Ireland | Italy | Japan | Kenya | Lithuania | Malaysia | Mexico | Netherlands | New Zealand | Nigeria | Norway | Peru | Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Romania | South Africa | South Korea | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland | Thailand | Turkey | United Arab Emirates | United Kingdom | Uruguay