Israeli Tech Firms Raised $12 Billion in 2025, Roughly Triple the Aid Reaching Palestinian Territories

While Gaza continues to crumble, global funding continues to flow into Israel, because if there is anything the international financial system excels at, it is finding money in a hurry for the right recipient. Israeli technology firms were handed nearly 12 billion US dollars in private funding over the first three quarters of 2025^[1]. To put that figure into some context, it is roughly 18 percent higher than the amount received during the same period a year earlier, and more than triple the funds directed toward aid in the occupied Palestinian territories^[1]. The arithmetic, once you sit with it, does not get more comfortable the longer you look.

Aid, meanwhile, continues to struggle to enter Gaza. Israeli firms raised more than 6.7 billion US dollars in funding over the same window, with the majority of that directed toward cybersecurity^[2], a category of spending that, in this particular region, carries a fairly specific set of implications. Some of the sources of this money are, on closer inspection, surprising. An Israeli lab-grown milk startup, for example, received 20 million US dollars in funding from the United Arab Emirates^[3], a sentence that raises several questions it politely declines to answer.

The exits tell their own story. Israeli technology exits jumped by 340 percent to 59 billion US dollars^[4], with the single largest contributor being Google’s 32 billion US dollar acquisition of Wiz, a cybersecurity firm^[4]. One acquisition, 32 billion dollars, in a year when the people next door are counting winter supplies. The comparison writes itself, and it is not a flattering one.

And while the world is busy funding Israel, Israeli money is, in turn, flooding outward. Indonesia, for example, is receiving investments from a historically Israeli multinational for controversial geothermal projects around the country^[5]. The country is also reportedly not shy of using Israeli technology for ambiguous purposes, a phrase chosen, one assumes, with great care. Indonesia is, by the account given, an ally of the Palestinians of nearly 40 years. That alliance, it seems, is compatible with quite a lot of complementary business.

Indonesia is reportedly interested in normalizing ties with Israel^[6], which if it happens would presumably allow money to flow more easily between the two countries. Just do not tell the Palestinians, who are, as noted, about to experience a very harsh winter. The funding will keep flowing regardless, because that, apparently, is what funding does. It finds the opportunity, and it does not ask too closely about the neighborhood. There is a particular kind of accounting at work in a year like this, the sort that tallies up exits and funding rounds and growth percentages and files them under good news, in the same breath that mentions aid cannot reach the people a short distance away. The 59 billion dollar figure is real. So is the winter. The two facts share a calendar year, and the machinery that produces the first is, by every available measure, running exactly as designed. The numbers are not a malfunction. They are precise. Make of that what you will.