Named: Some of Israhell's Unit 8200 spies at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft

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According to employment website LinkedIn, there are currently at least 99 former Unit 8200 veterans currently working for Google. This number almost certainly underestimates the scale of the collaboration between the two organizations, however.

For one, this does not count former Google employees. Nor does it include those without a public LinkedIn account, or those who do have an account, but have not disclosed their previous affiliations with the high-tech Israeli surveillance unit. This is likely to be a considerable number, as agents are expressly prohibited from ever revealing their affiliation to Unit 8200.

Thus, the figure of 99 only represents the number of current (or extremely recent) Google employees who are brazenly flouting Israeli military law by including the organization in their profiles.

Among these include:

Gavriel Goidel: Between 2010 and 2016, Goidel served in Unit 8200, rising to become Head of Learning at the organization, leading a large team of operatives who sifted through intelligence data to "understand patterns of hostile activists", in his own words, transmitting that information to superiors. Whether this included any of the over 1000 Gazan civilians Israel killed during their 2014 bombardment of Gaza is unknown. Goidel was recently appointed Head of Strategy and Operations at Google.

LinkedIn profile showing a history of work in Israeli intelligence
Jonathan Cohen: Cohen was a team leader during his time in Unit 8200 (2000-2003). He has since spent more than 13 years working for Google in various senior positions, and is currently Head of Insights, Data and Measurement.

Ori Daniel: Between 2003 and 2006, Daniel was a technical operations specialist with Unit 8200. After a stint with Palantir, he joined Google in 2018, rising to become Head of Global Self-Service for Google Waze.

Ben Bariach: For nearly five years between 2007 and 2011, Bariach served as a cyber intelligence officer, where he "commanded strategic teams of elite officers and professionals."Since 2016, he has worked for Google. Between 2018 and 2020, he concentrated on tackling "controversial content, disinformation and cyber-security". Today, he is a product partnership manager for Google in London.

LinkedIn profile showing a history of work in Israeli intelligenceNotably, Google appears to not only accept former Unit 8200 agents with open arms, but to actively recruit current members of the controversial organization.

For example, in October 2020, Gai Gutherz left his job as a project leader at Unit 8200 and walked into a full time job at Google as a software engineer.

In 2018, Lior Liberman appears to have done the same thing, taking a position as a program manager at Google after 4 years in military intelligence. Earlier this year, she left Google and now works at Microsoft.

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Other ex-Unit 8200 hold influential positions. For instance, Eyal Klein, the head of data science for Facebook Messenger since 2020, served for fully six years as a captain in the controversial Israeli military unit.

Today, he is tasked with handling privacy issues for billions of users of Meta's platforms.

LinkedIn profile showing a history of work in Israeli intelligence
Another former Unit 8200 leader now working in big tech in America is Eli Zeitlin.

Two years after leaving Unit 8200, Zeitlin was employed by Microsoft and rose to become the corporation's senior development lead.

He became, in his own words, the "go to person in file processing and cloud protection" for the company.

For the last six years, however, he has worked for Meta, where he leads the company in "prevent[ing] data misuse by third parties" – exactly the sort of operation that current Unit 8200 officers likely continue to carry out.

Other Unit 8200 veterans working in influential roles for Facebook include Tom Chet, head of activations and production for North American small business; Gilad Turbahn, a manager for Meta; engineering manager Ranen Goren; software engineers Gil Osher and Yoav Goldstein; security engineering manager Dana Baril; and software developer Omer Goldberg.

Meanwhile, according to Yonatan Ramot's LinkedIn biography, earlier this year, he was simultaneously working for Meta while still an active duty manager in Unit 8200.

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Data from LinkedIn suggests that there are at least 166 former Unit 8200 members who went on to work for Microsoft. In addition to those already mentioned, others include Ayelet Steinitz, Microsoft's former Head of Global Strategic Alliances, Senior Software Engineer Tomer Lev, and Senior Product Managers, Maayan Mazig, Or Serok-Jeppa and Yuval Derman.

LinkedIn profile showing a history of work in Israeli intelligence
Notably, the Seattle-based giant also heavily leans on ex-Unit 8200 professionals to design and upkeep its global security apparatus.

Examples of this phenomenon include Security Researchers Lia Yeshoua, Yogev Shitrit, Guni Merom, Meitar Pinto and Yaniv Carmel, Threat Protection Software Engineer Gilron Tsabkevich, Data Scientist Danielle Poleg,

Threat Intelligence Officer Itai Grady and Security Product Manager Liat Lisha. In Merom, Carmel and Pinto's cases, they went straight from Unit 8200 into Microsoft's team, again suggesting that Microsoft is actively recruiting from the regiment.

LinkedIn profile showing a history of work in Israeli intelligence
Other Microsoft security products such as Microsoft Defender Antivirus and Microsoft Azure secure cloud computing are also designed and maintained by ex-Unit 8200 individuals.

These include former Senior Architect Michael Bargury, Principal Software Engineering Manager Shlomi Haba, Senior Software Engineering Managers Yaniv Yehuda, Assaf Israel and Michal Ben Yaacov, Senior Product Manager Tal Rosler, Software Engineer Adi Griever, and Product Manager Yael Genut.

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Former Israeli spies working in top jobs at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft
https://israelpalestinenews.org/revealed-the-former-israeli-spies-working-in-top-jobs-at-google-facebook-and-microsoft-unit-8200/

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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

11/7/22 Alan MacLeod on the Former Israeli Spies in Top Social Media Jobs

Alan MacLeod of Mintpress News is back to talk more about the alarming number of former spies working for the largest internet and social media companies

32-minute audio here:  https://scotthorton.org/interviews/11-7-22-alan-macleod-on-the-former-israeli-spies-in-top-social-media-jobs/