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IBM Israel

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Globally integrated enterprise

IBM is a globally integrated enterprise operating in 170 countries. IBM's R&D history in Israel began in 1972 when Professor Josef Raviv established the IBM Israel Scientific Center in the Technion's Computer Science Building in Haifa. As of 2023, over 3000 individuals work at IBM R&D locations across Israel, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Rehovot, and the Jerusalem Technology Park.2 It is headquartered in Petah Tikva.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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IBM is a globally integrated enterprise operating in 170 countries. IBM's R&D history in Israel began in 1972 when Professor Josef Raviv established the IBM Israel Scientific Center in the Technion's Computer Science Building in Haifa. As of 2023, over 3000 individuals work at IBM R&D locations across Israel, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Rehovot, and the Jerusalem Technology Park.2

Corporate structure

IBM Israel is part of a group headed by IBM. 224 entities, 71 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • IBM North Castle, New York, United States
    • IBM India Private Limited 100% · Bangalore, India
    • Confluent Inc. Mountain View, California, United States
      • Confluent Australia Pty Limited Subsidiary · Australia
      • Confluent Brazil Ltda. Subsidiary · Brazil
      • Confluent Czech Republic S.R.O. Subsidiary · Czechia
      • Confluent Europe Ltd. Subsidiary · United Kingdom
      • Confluent France SAS Subsidiary · France
      • Confluent Germany GmbH Subsidiary · Germany
      • Confluent Hong Kong Ltd Subsidiary · Hong Kong
      • CONFLUENT INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
      • Confluent Ireland Software Limited Subsidiary · Ireland
      • Confluent Israel Ltd. Subsidiary · Israel
      • Confluent Italy S.R.L. Subsidiary · Italy
      • Confluent Japan Godo Kaisha Subsidiary · Japan
      • Confluent Korea Limited Subsidiary · South Korea
      • Confluent Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. Subsidiary · Malaysia
      • Confluent ME FZ-LLC Subsidiary · United Arab Emirates
      • Confluent Netherlands B.V. Subsidiary · Netherlands
      • Confluent Poland sp. z o.o. Subsidiary · Poland
      • Confluent Singapore Pte. Ltd. Subsidiary · Singapore
      • Confluent Spain, Sociedad Limitada Subsidiary · Spain
      • Confluent Sweden AB Subsidiary · Sweden
      • Confluent Switzerland GmbH Subsidiary · Switzerland
      • Infinitem Canada Ltd. Subsidiary · Canada
    • IBM GLOBAL FINANCING INVESTMENTS I B.V. Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • IBM INTERNATIONAL GROUP B.V. Amsterdam, Netherlands
      • IBM Norge Oslo, Norway
      • IBM DANMARK ApS Subsidiary · Brondby, Denmark
      • IBM LUXEMBOURG S.a r.l. (IBM LUXEMBOURG S.à r.l.) Subsidiary · Belvaux, Luxembourg
      • International Business Machines of Belgium Subsidiary · Brussel, Belgium
    • IBM Israel Petah Tikva
    • IBM ITALIA S.P.A. Segrate, Italy
      • Dock Joined In Tech S.R.L. Subsidiary · Segrate, Italy
      • IBM SOUTH AFRICA Subsidiary · Johannesburg, South Africa
      • SISTEMI INFORMATIVI S.R.L. Subsidiary · Roma, Italy
    • IBM Japan 港区, Japan
      • IT Frontier Subsidiary
    • IBM Korea 서울, South Korea
    • IBM SCHWEIZ AG Zurich, Switzerland
      • IBM Bulgaria 100% · Sofia, Bulgaria
      • IBM SLOVENIJA Podjetje za proizvodnjo, marketing in storitve d.o.o. Ljubljana Subsidiary · 100% · Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • IBM Svenska AB Stockholm, Sweden
    • Red Hat Wilmington, Delaware, United States
      • Red Hat Czech Brno, Czechia
      • Inktank Storage Subsidiary · Los Angeles
      • Red Hat (Israel) Subsidiary · Ra'Anana, Israel
      • Red Hat (United Kingdom) Subsidiary · Farnborough, United Kingdom
      • Red Hat Germany Subsidiary · Grasbrunn, Germany
      • StackRox Subsidiary · Mountain View
      • RED HAT ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD Subsidiary · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
      • RED HAT LIMITED Subsidiary · Cork, Ireland
        • RED HAT INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
      • ROUND POND UNLIMITED COMPANY Subsidiary · Dublin, Ireland
    • IBM Denmark Subsidiary · 100%
    • IBM France Subsidiary · 100% · Paris, France
    • IBM Germany Subsidiary · 100% · Ehningen, Germany
    • SoftLayer Subsidiary · 100% · Dallas
    • AlchemyAPI Subsidiary · Denver
    • Algorithmics Inc. Subsidiary · Toronto
    • Cloudant Subsidiary · Boston
    • Cognos Subsidiary · Ottawa
    • Dehomag Subsidiary · Berlin
    • IBM (Spain) Subsidiary · Madrid, Spain
    • IBM Canada Subsidiary · Markham, Ontario, Canada
    • IBM Cloud Video Subsidiary · San Francisco
    • IBM Global Financing Subsidiary · North Castle, New York, United States
    • IBM Global Services Subsidiary · Armonk
    • and 145 more

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

Haifa Research Lab

IBM Haifa Research Laboratory (HRL) is located in Haifa, Israel. It is an IBM R&D Lab in Israel. It handles projects in the spheres of cloud computing, healthcare and life sciences, verification technologies, multimedia, event processing, information retrieval, programming environments, business transformation, and optimization technologies. HRL is the biggest IBM research center outside the US.

Established back in 1972 as the IBM Israel Scientific Center, the IBM Haifa Research Lab has grown from three researchers to over five hundred employees, including regular staff members and many students. The IBM Haifa Research Lab is located in a custom-built complex adjacent to the Haifa University campus, with branches in Haifa and Tel Aviv. Current projects include healthcare, cloud computing, formal and simulation-based verification technologies, programming environments, chip design, storage systems, information retrieval, collaboration, and much more.

At the IBM Haifa Research Lab, twenty-five percent of the technical staff have doctoral degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or related fields. Employees are actively involved in teaching at Israeli higher education institutions such as the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and supervising post-graduate theses. Many employees have received IBM awards for achievements and excellence.

Systems and Technology Group Lab

STG incorporates the former Haifa Development Lab and develops advanced technologies for IBM's Systems and Technology Group. The STG Lab in Israel is involved in three major activities: storage technology, de-duplication software, and chip design.

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Working closely with the Israeli hi-tech community and recent IBM acquisitions in Israel, the STG Lab serves as a focal point for building a storage ecosystem in Israel. The lab also works closely with the XIV[link removed] team in IBM. Its three main departments are Hardware Development Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine, Storage Systems Development Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine, and Diligent Technologies.

Israel Software Lab

ILSL develops software for real-time collaboration [1] Archived 2008-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, content discovery [2] Archived 2008-12-07 at the Wayback Machine and text analytics, metadata management [3] Archived 2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, application security [4] Archived 2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, and SOA [5]. The teams work closely with the Lotus, Information Management, Rational, and WebSphere brands in IBM's Software Group.

From Wikipedia’s article on IBM Israel, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

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Timeline

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