Four Irish companies are supplying parts to the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) biggest arms supplier, according to shipping records uncovered by The Ditch.
Among the Irish companies shipping these critical components to Israel is a south Dublin-based defence firm that makes parts for missile-carrying military drones.
All shipments identified by The Ditch were delivered to arms company Elbit Systems, headquartered in Haifa, between November 2023 and November 2024.
Components from Dublin, Kildare and Meath
In September 2024, Acra Control sent components from its Clonskeagh manufacturing facility to the Israel Military Industries (now owned by Elbit Systems) plant in Ramat Hasharon, according to records obtained by The Ditch.
Israel Military Industries makes weapons, munitions and military technology mainly for the Israel Defense Forces.
Acra Control, owned by US-based Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, previously supplied components used in US Predator drones, which were deployed during deadly attacks in the Middle East.
Meanwhile Kildare-based Powell Electronics sent two shipments of components to the Elbit Systems Cyclone plant in Karmiel in October and November 2024. The manufacturing facility makes parts for the F-35 and F-16 fighter jets.
Also supplying components to Elbit Systems Cyclone was Blanchardstown-based Synopsys. The Dublin technology company, with headquarters in California, sent goods labelled as "software" from Ireland to Israel in November 2024.
Novachem, based in county Meath, sent a pallet of Optimax UV adhesives to Elbit Systems headquarters in Haifa in November 2023.
These adhesives are used for “military, defence and aerospace” purposes, according to a brochure on Novachem’s website, which contains an image of a fictional fighter jet.
Elbit Systems supplies up to 85 percent of the IDF’s land-based military equipment and drones. It signed a $275 million deal with the Israeli government in January this year to supply bombs to the IDF.
Acra Control, Powell Electronics, Synopsys and Novachem declined to comment.
