Jeen Defense has taken NIS 8.6 million in orders from a single strategic defense customer in just three months, part of a framework agreement worth up to NIS 45 million with a major defense organization signed in March 2026. The company that once called itself a civilian robotics spinoff is now helping wire generative AI into Israel’s defense agencies. The money is moving fast. So is the machinery.
From civilian startup to defense subcontractor
Jeen Technologies said the latest order, worth NIS 4.3 million, came this month and was the second procurement from the same customer in three months. That brings total orders from that customer to about NIS 8.6 million. The company’s defense subsidiary, Jeen Defense, now sits inside a broader framework agreement that could reach NIS 45 million over the next two years. The language is tidy. The function is not. A civilian robotics initiative has been folded into the defense apparatus, and the company says it is now “embedded across the defense agencies.”
CEO Oded Tahori said Jeen started inside One Technologies and was spun out just a year and a half ago. “We started in civilian robotics,” he said. “I didn’t think what we were developing was meant for defense. But they came to us, saw the platform, and now we’re embedded across the defense agencies.” That’s the old story with a fresh interface: a tool built in one sector, absorbed by the state’s security machine in another.
Jeen.ai, the enterprise arm, says it built a secure platform for rapidly installing generative AI in large enterprises. Its defense-dedicated subsidiary focuses on sovereign AI systems, intelligence-driven analytics and mission-support technologies for defense customers. Tahori said Jeen Defense received the additional NIS 4.3 million work order this month, and that the company is now part of Israel’s emerging national AI strategy. The pitch is sovereignty, security and control. The reality is a platform designed to serve institutions that already monopolize force.
The state’s appetite for offline intelligence
Tahori said Jeen’s main solution is an agentic AI platform that runs entirely offline and under strict security controls. He said defense bodies in Israel understand there is a company that can deliver AI without the internet. “They cannot work with OpenAI or global cloud systems, especially when it comes to intelligence,” he said. The point isn’t liberation from dependence. It’s dependence with better locks.
Over the past year, Jeen has begun working with all major defense agencies in Israel, providing AI tools for intelligence analysis, operational planning and administrative workflows. Tahori said, “We’re shaping how defense agencies work with AI at scale. For intelligence, for operations, for commanders who need cognitive support when they’re exhausted. Systems don’t feel stressed.” That line says plenty. The people do the stressing. The systems get the rest.
The company’s defense division is led by Nir Mitchell, a former combat officer in the IAF’s elite Shaldag unit and a senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office. Jeen’s team also includes former senior figures from Israel’s intelligence community, among them a former R&D manager of the Mossad, the Mossad’s former head of research and a former data manager at the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). The revolving door keeps spinning. It just lands in better-funded rooms.
Jeen said it has raised $25 million, grown to nearly 140 employees and expanded to offices in Singapore, London and New York, with Israel serving as the company’s R&D and implementation hub. It also said its platform is already being used by large Israeli defense primes, where Tahori said the company has a strong connection with thousands of users. The company wants to build the Israeli equivalent of Palantir, a sovereign AI system designed to support intelligence, operations and decision-making at scale.
Who gets the tools, who gets the bill
Tahori said, “We’re already showing Jeen as part of Israel’s defense capability in generative AI. You cannot depend on global organizations. The tech needs to work without the cloud - efficiently, and independently.” He also said, “Jeen will be a core system for operational and administrative needs. Connecting defense agencies to generative AI in a secure, sovereign way.” The words are polished. The destination is familiar: more capacity for the agencies that already decide who gets watched, managed and ordered around.
Like many other Israeli startups drifting into the defense market, Tahori described Jeen as a dual-use company, bringing civilian AI capabilities into defense where they are urgently needed. Jeen’s technology has already been adopted by major civilian institutions, including Bank Mizrahi, the Israel Electric Corporation and Maccabi Healthcare Services. That’s the neat trick of the modern security economy. Civilian institutions buy the same tools, the defense sector gets the sharper edge, and the line between public life and security infrastructure gets thinner by the quarter.