Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest military company, produces a large range of arms and military and surveillance technology, used to spy on civilians.

Elbit Systems specializes in military electronics, surveillance systems, Unmanned Air Vehicles or “drones”, and security systems. In Palestine it provides Israel with equipment for its apartheid Wall in the West Bank and other weapons, particularly killer drones, used for war crimes in the attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.

Elbit sells its experience in ghettoizing and killing Palestinians as ‘field tested’ technology to repress other people. From the US-Mexico Wall and the militarization in Mexico to the repression of the Kashmiri people.

Israel’s Apartheid Wall, which is crippling Palestinian communities by isolating them in walled-in ghettos in the West Bank, has provided a massive source of revenue for Elbit. Elbit subsidiary Ortek was awarded a $5 million contract to build a “smart” electronic barrier around part of Jerusalem, thereby cutting off Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents from the occupied West Bank. In 2006, Ortek was awarded an additional $17 million to deploy a “smart” electronic deterrence system—consisting of an electronic fence, communications systems, and computerized command and control posts—along segments of the separation wall. Subsidiaries Elbit Electro-Optics (El-Op) and Elbit Security Systems supplied and incorporated LORROS surveillance cameras in the Ariel settlement section as well as around Ar Ram. One product made by Elbit Systems, “Torch”, is manufactured specifically for use on the Wall. In 2013, Elbit installed its surveillance systems in the occupied Golan Heights to cut off the territory Israel holds occupied from the rest of Syria. The contract was worth more than $60 million. In 2015, Elbit started developing tunnel detection technology to be deployed around the Gaza Strip. Two years later, when Israel began building a new wall around Gaza, Elbit became the lead contractor for the “smart” components of this new wall, which includes a 130-feet-deep underground wall. Elbit Systems received the Israel Defense Award for the development of this system.

Elbit Systems also developed Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) that act as border surveillance systems operating alongside the wall. In 2008, a joint venture of Elbit and Israel Aerospace Industries unveiled the Guardium UGV – a semi-autonomous, armed border patrol robot. The Israeli military has deployed the Guardium along the borders around the Gaza Strip and in the occupied Golan Heights. More recently, Elbit developed the Segev UGV – a Ford F-350 truck converted into an armored and armed vehicle which can be driven remotely or operate completely autonomously. The Israeli military began deploying the Segev in 2016.

In 2002, Elbit also started providing borders and checkpoints with biometric surveillance. Israel contracted Elbit to design and implement the Rotem System for borders crossings, and was later contracted to add the Reut System for use at Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza. The Rotem-Reut System includes methods for identifying people using biometric data and for querying all relevant databases, including those maintained by the Israeli police, prison service, and security services. This information is then used to determine whether to allow, deny, or arrest the person in question. The system was deployed in 2006 and has been operational ever since, with Elbit Systems serving as its main contractor.