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Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty >> Images. >> >> The Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israeli defense companies have >> directed millions in unreported funding to U.S. university research >> programs for weapons development, sponsoring research directly or serving >> as the pass-through entity for the funding, a Drop Site investigation has >> found. >> >> A sample of state and university audits, foreign-funding disclosures, and >> other institutional records identified millions of dollars in financial >> ties over the last two decades between the Israeli Ministry of Defense >> (MOD), Israeli weapons manufacturers, and American universities, much of >> which does not appear consistently in national databases intended to track >> foreign funding into U.S. universities. >> >> An analysis of audit records, building on findings compiled by the Antiwar >> Initiative >> <https://substack.com/redirect/3f6cb69e-71d6-4757-b17a-968f03379c5a?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4>, >> an academic research group that documents the connections between >> universities and the global arms industry, found more than $15 million of >> unreported or inconsistently reported entries for funding tied to the >> Israeli MOD or defense manufacturers. >> >> The true scale of Israeli support is difficult to determine because >> entries for such funding were often not reported in public filings >> mandating disclosure of foreign gifts, but were discovered by manually >> cross-referencing public and internal databases, audit records, and >> acknowledgments in academic papers. Some projects listed in university >> materials as being sponsored by the Israeli MOD or defense companies also >> did not include the amounts of funding provided, or contained inconsistent >> or contradictory records in audit databases. >> >> Drop Site reviewed and verified public records that showed research >> grants, tuition payments, and receipts of gifts totalling millions of >> dollars to dozens of colleges and universities around the country. The data >> shows examples of financial support and sponsorship for American >> researchers from the Israeli Ministry of Defense as well as Israeli weapons >> manufacturers like Elbit Systems. >> >> Records dating from 2004 to 2025 point to a large number of schools that >> have had financial relationships with the Israeli MOD or Israeli weapons >> manufacturers, including Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, >> Northwestern, Georgia Tech, Texas Tech, the University of Connecticut, the >> University of Tennessee, the University of Maryland, the University of >> Florida, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Rhode >> Island, the University of New Mexico, the Washington University in St. >> Louis, and the State University of New York. >> >> The recorded financial relationships include time-bound research >> contracts and do not indicate whether relationships with the MOD are still >> ongoing. Previous reporting has documented MOD funding of programs at MIT >> and student protests there over the relationship. >> >> In addition to financial support from the MOD and Elbit, records also >> showed sponsorship of individual research projects related to military >> technologies by Israeli defense manufacturers Rafael and Israel Aerospace >> Industries. >> >> Taken together, the records reveal an opaque defense-research pipeline >> spread across some of the country’s most prominent universities. >> >> In one example that illustrates the typical nature of these ties, an >> Israeli MOD-sponsored project >> <https://substack.com/redirect/bcdacbe8-29bb-44d7-bc0b-3ee4a97c9ee9?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> at the University of Connecticut was listed in public audit records >> <https://substack.com/redirect/1992fcb7-5447-4670-a6ec-29a788b9eed9?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> with the title, “Impact Point Prediction Research for Short & Medium Range >> Thrusting Projectiles.” >> >> Connecticut’s annual federal-award schedules record $668,456 in funding >> under that title across nine fiscal years between 2013 and 2023 with the >> funder listed as Israel’s Ministry of Defense. Another Israeli MOD-linked >> research project at the school titled, “High Sensitivity SQUIDs for >> Magnetic Field Detection,” received $251,336 in funding across the same >> time period. >> >> Federal law requires colleges and universities receiving federal >> assistance to disclose gifts and contracts totaling at least $250,000 in a >> calendar year from a foreign source, though transactions below that >> threshold may remain outside the public reporting system. But these >> multi-year contributions do not consistently appear in federal databases >> intended to help the public track foreign money flowing into American >> universities. The Education Department’s latest public disclosure >> <https://substack.com/redirect/ade51106-f9d4-4873-9a64-e1d0b620c1f4?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> of foreign gifts and funding contains no Israel-attributed entry for the >> University of Connecticut, even as entries for MOD funding show up in other >> databases and audit documentation. >> >> The Israeli government and its allies in Congress are now seeking to >> transform relationships like these from a scattered research pipeline into >> formal American defense policy. The fiscal 2026 National Defense >> Authorization Act already directed the Pentagon >> <https://substack.com/redirect/fc169201-f301-49c4-bf82-c88b627ac23b?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> to establish a U.S.-Israel Defense Industrial Base Working Group to >> consider integrating Israel into what it calls “the American National >> Technology and Industrial Base.” >> >> A proposal advanced by the House Armed Services Committee for the fiscal >> 2027 NDAA would go further, creating a United States-Israel Defense >> Technology Cooperation Initiative >> <https://substack.com/redirect/f5af1c9d-2645-4c8c-9466-a95d4bf4c85d?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> charged with expanding bilateral research, development, testing, weapons >> production, and industrial cooperation. If these measures become law, the >> scattered funding connections documented in American university audit >> trails and research papers would become part of the architecture of the >> American military-industrial base. >> *Gears of War* >> >> Israeli forces have used drones, automated intelligence tools, persistent >> aerial surveillance, precision-guided projectiles, and large-scale data >> analysis throughout the genocide in the Gaza Strip, as well as wars in >> Lebanon, Iran, Syria, and Yemen. >> >> Those operations draw upon the technologies originating in the same >> research fields that the Israeli government and weapons manufacturers have >> paid American academics to advance: video surveillance, human-activity >> recognition, autonomous flight, network analysis, target identification, >> magnetic sensing, and projectile impact modeling. At the University of >> Central Florida, researchers have received funding from Elbit Systems >> <https://substack.com/redirect/7ebb789f-79ef-45aa-b6bd-e3060f59458e?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> to develop algorithms to recognize human activity and detect objects in >> video. >> >> Records from the University of Tennessee show that a U.S. subsidiary of >> Elbit also provided $514,500 in payments to the school between 2023 >> <https://substack.com/redirect/c3015f8d-9974-4e7c-abf2-f380ceffecba?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> , 2024 >> <https://substack.com/redirect/c8907deb-f798-4573-8084-88cc1404937b?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4>, >> and 2025 >> <https://substack.com/redirect/e9b6ac54-2baf-46a9-a68e-c89e0484faf6?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4>. >> The available public documentation does not identify what programs or >> researchers the contributions are intended to support, with the description >> listing the purpose of the funding as simply “tuition payments for various >> students.” >> >> “For relatively small sums—like the price of funding a single PhD—Israel >> has gained major new capabilities that have bolstered its capacity to >> commit genocide in Gaza, carry out a brutal occupation of Lebanon, and >> spark a war with Iran that has escalated to a region wide conflict,” said >> William Hartung, a political scientist and expert on the U.S. arms industry >> and Pentagon budgetary practices. >> >> Many awards from the Israeli MOD are classified as U.S. Department of >> Defense expenditures, with the Israeli ministry identified as the >> pass-through entity that administers the grants. MIT, for example, has >> stated >> <https://substack.com/redirect/94ae5bad-3074-4adc-a03c-9a4405990257?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> that the money for its projects funded by the Israeli ministry originated >> with the U.S. Department of Defense. The U.S. provides an estimated $3.8 >> billion in annual military aid to Israel on top of other forms of >> assistance. >> >> Some audit records identify the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation >> Agency, which administers U.S. security assistance and weapons-transfer >> programs, as the primary agency providing the funding that was ultimately >> directed by the Israeli MOD. The public documents do not establish whether >> every dollar for particular research support at a school came from Israel’s >> treasury, from U.S. military assistance placed under Israeli procurement >> authority, or from some combination of the two. >> *Audit Trail* >> >> In the summer of 2025, MIT professor Markus Buehler withdrew from an >> Israeli Defense Ministry grant after a student-led campaign publicized the >> project. The decision followed more than a year of protests over MIT’s >> defense relationships with Israel, which the university says amounted to >> $4 million >> <https://substack.com/redirect/94ae5bad-3074-4adc-a03c-9a4405990257?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> for individual ministry-linked projects between fiscal 2015 and fiscal >> 2024, plus $290,000 in fiscal 2025. >> >> A trail of open source records traces similar financial and research >> relationships between the Israeli defense establishment and schools in >> Connecticut, New York, Maryland, Florida, New Jersey, Texas, California, >> and Virginia. >> >> At Columbia University, annual audits name two ministry-linked projects >> and record $799,190 in grants. One MOD-funded project for “Direct 3D >> Printing of Integrated Electro Mechanical Systems” accounted for $469,999 >> from 2016 through 2021, while another for “Optimizing Micro Resonators >> Based Sensor” accounted for another $329,191 from 2021 through 2024. >> Columbia’s fiscal 2024 audit >> <https://substack.com/redirect/36de242c-d706-4b1f-88b1-c6af9694d578?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> lists the latter project under the U.S. Department of Defense, with the >> “Israeli Ministry of Defense” as the “pass-through name,” and records >> $25,327 in funding. >> >> The Research Foundation for the State University of New York shows audit >> entries for five Israeli MOD-linked projects totaling >> <https://substack.com/redirect/ca63194a-c33a-4577-811b-2b12457c8258?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> $949,915 from 2010 through 2021. >> >> Florida’s statewide audits record $1,195,795 in expenditures passed >> through the Ministry of Defense from 2012 through 2021, while not >> identifying the schools that received all of this funding. >> >> Campus records connect at least some of the awards to the University of >> Central Florida and the University of Florida. One University of Florida >> engineering publication >> <https://substack.com/redirect/f8b3a4b3-2edb-4783-bf0e-5f58f49cb29b?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> names an Israeli MOD-sponsored project, “Coupled Size and Rate Effects in >> Ultra-High-Performance Concrete,” beginning in 2012. While listing the >> project under “Sponsored Research,” the newsletter did not identify the >> amount the school received from the MOD for the study. >> >> In response to a request for comment about another $150,000 contract >> beginning in March 2015 that named the Israeli Ministry of Defense at UC >> Berkeley, a spokesperson said that, “UC Berkeley complies with all of the >> statues and regulations that apply to contracts and gifts from foreign >> sources,” noting that the school is only involved in fundamental research >> and adding that, “every government, every researcher, every person in the >> world is able to read the results of our research in freely available >> scientific publications.” >> >> UC Berkeley did not respond to additional questions about the purpose of >> the MOD funding. Other schools contacted by Drop Site did not respond to >> requests for comment or stated that they could not provide information >> about the cited funding. >> >> In addition to records from audits, public information from individual >> researchers provides more hints of the scope of Israeli military’s U.S. >> research funding. >> >> In February, The Nation reported >> <https://substack.com/redirect/7ebb789f-79ef-45aa-b6bd-e3060f59458e?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> that computer-vision researchers Mubarak Shah and Abhijit Mahalanobis >> received a $200,000 Elbit Systems of America grant in 2020 to develop >> “human activity recognition” technology, while Mahalanobis received another >> $60,000 for algorithms involving object detection and human-activity >> recognition. >> >> At the University of Maryland, aerospace engineering professor Inderjit >> Chopra’s research page >> <https://substack.com/redirect/b03a3956-2829-4c0f-b87d-a49a2037a263?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> lists two Israeli ministry grants: $150,000 for “Autonomous Operation of >> Micro-Helicopters,” from 2011 to 2012, and $300,000 for “Aeromechanics of >> Rotorcraft in High Speed Flight,” from 2014 to 2016. >> >> A curriculum vitae filed >> <https://substack.com/redirect/1874ae1c-efd0-4630-86df-64b245083d12?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> by another researcher in a separate U.S. Patent and Trademark Office >> proceeding lists Israeli MOD funding of $150,000 for “Functional Targeting >> of Terror Networks: A Big Data Approach,” from February 2017 through >> December 2018, and $153,520 for “Fast Algorithms for Group Between-ness >> Centrality in Massive Social Networks.” >> >> Princeton University records identify physicist Michael Romalis on a >> $600,000 contract called “Pulsed Scalar Atomic Magnetometer.” The >> university’s fiscal 2018 sponsored-awards report >> <https://substack.com/redirect/395953a4-f5cd-4c01-a980-2251955fc33c?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> names the Government of Israel’s Ministry of Defense and the Defense >> Security Cooperation Agency as sponsors and gives a contract period from >> July 2015 through June 2019. >> >> Texas Tech University’s engineering newsletters list yet another award >> for $400,000 from the Israeli Defense Ministry to research a “Sealed >> Vircator HPM System,” naming James Dickens, John Mankowski, and Andreas >> Neuber as researchers. The same amount and title appear in both the >> January 2014 >> <https://substack.com/redirect/d36e2cca-d098-4286-90e0-6b3d400aaf7f?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> and April 2015 >> <https://substack.com/redirect/a86fbdaa-f680-45c9-810b-24335721e9a7?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> newsletters. >> >> The vircator technology has a clear military application: Texas Tech’s >> Center for Pulsed Power and Power Electronics describes >> <https://substack.com/redirect/403a3ec2-42b1-4c14-b49a-8b9db1ab234c?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> vircators as compact, high-power microwave sources and says its work >> includes coordinating vehicle-mounted emitters with GPS timing to place a >> microwave “hot spot” at a desired location—an application potentially >> useful for combatting drone swarms. >> >> The purpose of a separate Israeli Defense Ministry-linked funding stream >> at the University of Texas at Austin is less clear from the public records. >> UT Austin’s fiscal 2013 financial report identifies >> <https://substack.com/redirect/b763b9ca-b211-470e-bc64-bcea4e03a478?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> $58,992 in expenditures under an Israeli Ministry of Defense purchase >> order. Statewide audit schedules record expenditures under the same >> purchase order reappearing in public audit records from 2010 through 2014, >> for a total of $299,952. >> >> The audit archive contains still more Israeli military-named >> expenditures, including recorded contributions to Northwestern University >> <https://substack.com/redirect/93868169-bcd5-4896-acb5-b1ab2e0bdcaf?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> and Washington University in St. Louis >> <https://substack.com/redirect/c3947098-abcd-484c-8011-564aab927977?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4>, >> and repeated entries for the MOD in audits >> <https://substack.com/redirect/26b70a52-3b79-4c4b-8e1f-c17eecfd0996?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> for the state of Virginia. >> >> But the opaque nature of some support that turned up in public records >> means that financial and in-kind support to universities may not even be >> recorded in any audit trail at all. >> >> At the University of Texas at Dallas, Haoran Wei and Nasser Kehtarnavaz >> produced a video-surveillance system in a study that the published >> <https://substack.com/redirect/9d033cf0-6386-42f7-9cfb-4bbdc1ad83fe?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> paper indicated was “funded by Elbit Systems of America through a contract >> with the University of Texas at Dallas” without mentioning the amount of >> financial support. The report also noted that the company had provided >> “far-field video clips” to help conduct their research on target >> recognition. >> >> The researchers did not respond to requests for comment about the nature >> of their work and ties to Elbit. >> *Disclosure Gap* >> >> Section 117 of the Higher Education Act >> <https://substack.com/redirect/d21e9ba6-c469-4cb2-9560-fd4e71f26f5d?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> generally requires a federally assisted university to report covered gifts >> and contracts from a foreign source when they meet or exceed $250,000, >> including multi-year contracts meeting that threshold over their duration. >> Under the Education Department’s example, a five-year research contract >> worth $50,000 a year is reportable at signing because its lifetime value is >> $250,000. >> >> The Education Department’s inspector general warned >> <https://substack.com/redirect/6ae51747-850a-4ff6-8552-992c22d86f0e?j=eyJ1IjoiMXJ6NDZlIn0.vwFUUWXitToCG6lkdgIOEZJA0yByKrMNCn3mtPeVIW4> >> in February 2025 that oversight of the system was weak with insufficient >> controls to ensure reporting requirements were being met. 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