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The Israeli militarized hi-tech sector has become a dominant player in the global market of cyber technologies, many that are used for surveillance and population control. This has also laid the ground for surveillance tech firms to capitalize on Covid-19 health crisis. This company feature sheds light on the activities of the private Israeli cyber company NSO Group, and its record in human rights violations as well as its new coronavirus data analytics system.

The UN list of 112 companies involved in the Israeli occupation is an important step toward corporate accountability. However, its narrow focus and restrictive temporal frame leave out hundreds of complicit corporations and wider structures of dispossession.

نحاول في ورقة الاحاطة هذه ان نسلط الضوء على تورط الشركة في نهب ممتلكات اللاجئين الفلسطينيين في اراضي 1948 (داخل "الخط الاخضر"). كما ونستعرض بشكل مفصل قرار الشركة بالاستمرار بابقاء المرافق المقامة في مستوطنات الضفة الغربية في منصتها الالكترونية.    

Through its fully owned Israeli subsidiary, Cisco – Israel, Cisco Systems has a diverse portfolio of complicity with Israel's decades' long occupation. Cisco is involved in setting up technological hubs on occupied land, expanding visual surveillance in Jerusalem and delivering IT services to the Israeli military. Furthermore, it contributes to the structural dependency of the Palestinian economy to that of Israel through a process of outsourcing managed by its Israeli subsidiary.

The update highlights Airbnb's overlooked complicity in the plunder of Palestinian refugee properties in 1948 territories (inside the "Green Line"). Additionally, it looks in detail at the company's decision to continue the listings of settlement properties.

This update highlights the recent developments in the expansion of the Jerusalem Light Rail system- the extension of the existant Red Line of the train and the construction and maintainance of the new Green Line. The update  exposes the instrumental  involvement of the Spanish multinational company Caf- construccionces y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles and the Israeli public company Shapir Engineering and Industry.

The Israeli wine industry remains deeply complicit in the occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land. Dozens of wineries are based in and around Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan. Many wineries located within the Green Line, including some of the largest commercial wineries in the Israeli market, use grapes originating from occupied land in their wines. This update highlights recent developments in the Israeli wine sector, including the expansion of wine tourism and foreign export markets. All corporate profiles of complicit wineries have been updated.

In this update, Who Profits provides an overview of the Jerusalem cable car project, highlighting in particular the role of the tourism sector in facilitating Israeli colonial expansion and the involvement of one French corporation, CNA -Cable Neige Amenagement, in the project.