Motorola Solutions

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Motorola Solutions, Inc. is an American provider of communication products, video equipment, telecommunications equipment, software, systems and services. The company provides products, services and technological solutions for military and security agencies which include Converged Information Security Management, Communications Command & Control, Mobile Radio Systems & Devices, Broadband LTE Systems and Devices, Cybersecurity Services & Products and Alarm Systems. Motorola Solutions works closely with the Israeli military and defense establishment. It entered the Israeli market in 1964 and established an R&D center in Israel in 1972, its first outside the U.S. Motorola Solutions’ surveillance equipment has been installed in illegal Israeli settlements and along the separation wall in the occupied West Bank, in Gaza, and at Israeli military bases. In 2005, Israel’s Ministry of Defense (IMOD) awarded the company a contract to provide a “virtual fence system,” called the MotoEagle Wide Area Surveillance System, to dozens of illegal settlements. The system includes radars and cameras that can detect movement outside settlements. It was installed as part of Israel’s “Special Security Area” plan, under which Palestinians are prevented access to areas around certain illegal settlements, even if it is their land. In some cases, Motorola’s radar stations were erected on privately owned Palestinian land. The MotoEagle system is installed in at least 25 settlements as of 2016, according to Who Profits. Motorola has also been involved in other projects in Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank. For example, it provided communications systems and maintenance to several of the largest settlements, including Modi'in Illit and the Mateh Binyamin Regional Councils, in 2019. Before that, it provided communications systems to Beitar Illit, Efrat, and the Gush Etzion Regional Council. In 2018, it was contracted to provide technological security products to the settlements of Ariel and Kiryat Arba. In 2025, the U.N. Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner included Motorola Solutions in a database of companies involved in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise. The U.N. identified the company as being involved in the provision of services and utilities “supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport,” and the “supply of security services, equipment and materials to enterprises operating in settlements.” The company was included in an earlier version of this database in 2023. Motorola Solutions also has also contracted with Israel Railways for providing Wi-Fi internet servers to all of Israel’s train stations and cars and for providing internal communications systems. The railway’s Tel Aviv–Jerusalem line cuts through the occupied West Bank, including privately owned Palestinian lands. Any use of occupied Palestinian land and resources for an exclusively Israeli transportation project is illegal by international law. Motorola Solutions has also provided the Israel Police with its main tactical communications system, “Nitzan,” which includes designated communication towers, an internal wireless network, and Motorola’s ASTRO 25 two-way radios as the end-point devices. In 2013, the system was documented being used during arrests of Palestinian protesters in occupied East Jerusalem. Motorola Solutions was first selected as the system contractor in 2010 and has been contracted repeatedly for system upgrades, enhancements, and maintenance, and to add other security forces to the network, including military units and the Israeli Prison Service. The company has additional contracts with the Israel Prison Service and the Population and Immigration Authority, both of which play critical roles in Israel’s occupation apparatus. Motorola Solutions has provided communications systems to the Israel Prison Service since at least 2008, including for use at Ofer Prison, a prison in the occupied West Bank that holds Palestinian political prisoners. Previously, Motorola Solutions Israel developed military technology components, including electronic fuses for aircraft bombs and guided munitions for the Israeli Air Force and other major Israeli military industries. The company’s Government Electronics Department, which was responsible for these business activities, was sold to Aeronautics in 2009. -- Listed on NYSE (MSI), Motorola Solutions is backed by leading sovereign wealth funds, most notably NBIM.