Intel Corporation

Israel cancelled the NIS 1.3 billion ($425 million) earmarked for Intel for 2025 in its State Budget Execution Report, and still holds NIS 1.06 billion ($346 million) for 2026. Earlier Israeli support for the Kiryat Gat site ran to NIS 1.5 billion in 2024, NIS 1.2 billion in 2014 and NIS 700 million in 2018. Intel says its Israeli expansion plans are under review to ensure they align with customer demand, and officials maintain the wider investment plan has not been formally withdrawn.

Israel's Ministry of Finance Budgets Division cancelled the NIS 1.3 billion grant earmarked for Intel in respect of 2025 work that did not take place, while keeping NIS 1.06 billion planned for the end of 2026 conditional on the investment resuming. Intel had received NIS 1.5 billion for its 2024 activity, from the NIS 11.1 billion Israel committed in 2023 towards a NIS 89 billion investment. Construction has been frozen for two years, Intel citing cash flow difficulties and recurring wars in the region, and saying its Israeli expansion programme is under review to match customer demand.

Intel is near the top of a list of United States companies with Middle East operations whose facilities Iran said in late March 2026 it would target, after the United States and Israel began coordinated military strikes against Iran on 28 February 2026. A significant portion of current and anticipated revenue comes from Intel 7 products made at the Israeli plant, which is uninsured for business interruption from war or political violence and whose assets Intel self-insures.

Intel's shareholders rejected Proposal 7, on the company's human rights due diligence process, at the annual meeting of 13 May 2026: 318,934,961 for, 2,883,597,209 against, 27,619,695 abstaining, with 742,040,598 broker non-votes. That is about a tenth of the votes cast, well above the threshold at which a resolution may be filed again. All eleven directors were elected, including Lip-Bu Tan, and Frank D. Yeary retired as Board Chair at that meeting.

The shareholder Nicholas Collins asked Intel's board to oversee an independent review of the company's human rights due diligence in conflict-affected areas, 'including but not limited to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory', China (Xinjiang) and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and to report on what it does when severe risk is found, up to contract termination. The board recommended a vote against, calling the report 'a costly diversion of corporate resources'. It said Intel has used third-party specialists for human rights impact assessments since 2016 and conducts 'heightened due diligence in certain geographies' through country-level assessments.

Israel held $10.6 billion of Intel's $105.4 billion of property, plant and equipment at 27 December 2025, third after the United States ($71.2 billion) and Ireland ($17.1 billion), on total revenue of $52.9 billion. The Israeli plant is one of Intel's four key production fabs, running Intel 7, and a significant portion of revenue comes from products made there; Intel is not insured for business interruption from war or political violence and self-insures its Israeli assets. Reduced Israeli tax rates run to 2056 and were worth $79 million in 2025, against $197 million of cash tax paid in Israel.

Several hundred engineers in Israel led the design of Panther Lake, Intel's 2026 flagship client processor, with the company's Oregon site. Its compute tile, roughly three billion transistors and up to sixteen CPU cores, was 'designed entirely in Israel', and the Lunar Lake architecture folded into it was also designed there.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory concluded that Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have committed and are continuing to commit acts of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, that they have and continue to have genocidal intent, and that the State of Israel bears responsibility for failing to prevent genocide, for committing it, and for failing to punish it. The analysis covers Gaza only, for the period 7 October 2023 to 31 July 2025.

Intel Israel employed almost 12,000 people across Haifa, Petah Tikva, Jerusalem and Kiryat Gat before the cuts: about 1,000 went at the end of 2023 and hundreds more from April 2025, including about 200 at the Kiryat Gat campus. Headcount is now around 9,300, roughly 4,000 of them at Kiryat Gat.

Intel's shareholders rejected Proposal 5, the Ethical Impact Assessment, at the annual meeting of 6 May 2025: 235,770,360 for, 2,208,866,958 against, 43,226,431 abstaining, with 840,591,459 broker non-votes, about 9.5% of the votes cast.

Intel 'provides products and services to the Israeli military' and maintains substantial operations there, in the American Friends Service Committee's company record. The military supply that record gives is an Intel component inside another company's product: Elbit Systems' MK7 Enhanced Tactical Computer, fitted to Merkava tanks, uses 'an Intel i7 Quad Core processor'. Israel Aerospace Industries ran a 2019 innovation course with Intel and the Israeli Air Force. The record also puts Intel as Israel's largest technology employer, with about 10,000 workers and $27 billion invested between 1974 and 2021.

Intel's board told shareholders in 2025 that Intel had operated in Israel for nearly fifty years with more than 11,000 employees, that one of its key fabrication plants for its highest-volume products is there, and that it 'disagrees with the underlying premise' that presence in a country is support for its government. It was opposing a resolution asking it to assess the implications of operating amid 'present alleged systematic human rights violations and alleged genocide', and the thresholds for divestment or operational downsizing, citing Amnesty International, the UN Human Rights Office, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem and Yesh Din.

The International Court of Justice found Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlawful, and set out the consequences for states and for economic dealings that entrench it.

The BDS movement called Intel's halt to construction the biggest victory yet for the campaign, while stating that Intel remains complicit, in coverage of the halt aggregated by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.

Intel halted construction of the Kiryat Gat expansion less than six months after announcing it. Contractors were told to stop work and the construction workforce fell from about 5,500 to about 2,000.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel launched #BoycottIntel on 19 March 2024, calling for a boycott of computers with Intel chips, for investors to divest from Intel stock, and for institutions to exclude Intel from tenders. Their campaign page cites the $25 billion investment and the $16.6 billion undertaking to Israeli suppliers, records Intel's main Israeli plant standing on the ruins of Iraq al-Manshiyya about sixteen miles from Gaza, and gives Intel Israel's 2022 exports as $8.7 billion, 1.75% of Israel's GDP.

The BDS movement called for a global boycott of Intel until it drops its investment in Israel, and described the company as a manufacturer of 'apartheid chips'.

The International Court of Justice found a real and imminent risk to the right of Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide, and ordered Israel to prevent them. The Court made no finding on the merits, which remain pending.

Citing the Israeli historian Benny Morris, the Institute for Palestine Studies records that Israel intimidated the 2,000 to 3,000 villagers of Iraq al-Manshiyya and neighbouring al-Faluja into flight within days of signing the Israel-Egypt armistice of 24 February 1949, in violation of its terms, and that the UN mediator reported civilians beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers and cases of attempted rape. It records 2,220 residents in 1944/45, 2,010 of them Palestinian, and Palestinians owning 13,838 of the village's 17,901 dunums. Kibbutz Gat took further land in 1949, and 'in 1954, Qiryat Gat was established on village lands'.

Al-Faluja's residents were expelled with those of neighbouring Iraq al-Manshiyya after the February 1949 armistice, and Kiryat Gat later spread onto their lands. Recorded by the Israeli organisation Zochrot.

Intel announced a $25 billion expansion at Kiryat Gat two months into the assault on Gaza, with a $3.2 billion government grant and an undertaking to buy from Israeli suppliers over the following decade. The Israeli government described it as the largest investment ever made in the State of Israel. The new plant was to open in 2028 and operate to 2035.

Intel paid a one-time $5,000 grant to its Israel-based employees, then about 12,000 people, at the end of November 2023, weeks before announcing the $25 billion Kiryat Gat expansion.

Intel Israel exported a record $8.7 billion in 2022, 1.75% of Israel's entire GDP and 5.5% of all Israeli high-technology exports.

Intel's Kiryat Gat facilities stand on the lands of the Palestinian villages of Iraq al-Manshiyya and al-Faluja, whose residents were expelled in violation of the guarantees given in the 1949 armistice.

Intel's Fab 18 at Kiryat Gat stands on land from which the villagers of Iraq al-Manshiyya and al-Faluja were expelled, after the 1949 armistice agreement filed with the United Nations had guaranteed their safety. The paper reported in 2003 on the plant and on the refugee population descended from them.