Revealed: Microsoft signed $125m contract with Israel during first year of Gaza war

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MicrosoftMicrosoft signed a contract worth more than $100m with the Israeli government in 2024, according to documents published on the Israeli Ministry of Finance’s Hebrew-language website, Middle East Eye can reveal.

The multimillion-dollar deal appears in Israel's annual budget-execution report for 2024, which was published by the finance ministry's accountant general in March 2025.

However, details of the Microsoft agreement were obscured within a lengthy list of procurement commitments and only surfaced following close analysis of the budget report by MEE.

Buried in the report is a list of the defence ministry's largest procurement commitments. One entry records an agreement signed in 2024 with Microsoft "for the purchase of software licensing", worth approximately 464 million shekels (about $125.4m).

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