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Google is Acquiring Tech Firm Founded by Ex-Israeli Intelligence Officers for Record $32 Billion
Google's purchase of the the firm Wiz tightens the embrace between Silicon Valley and the Israeli military.
The co-founders of Wiz—Yinon Costica, Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, and Roy Reznik—are all veterans of Unit 8200, the signals intelligence division of the Israeli military, which is playing a key role in helping to carry out Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon. They also highlighted, in the case of Wiz, the risk of a “former member of an intelligence agency working in a sensitive area of U.S. tech, especially something like cloud storage, that has access to a lot of data that is very easy to scrape or download or transfer.” Google’s decision to pay massively for Wiz thus amounts to a de facto bailout of the Israeli economy, coming at a time that the company is also attempting to build closer ties with Trump administration regulators.
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