Jeen Technologies has pulled in NIS 8.6 million in orders from a single strategic defense customer in recent months, with the latest order worth NIS 4.3 million landing as the company deepens its reach across Israel’s defense agencies. The money follows a framework agreement valued at up to NIS 45 million over the next two years, signed in March with a major defense organization. The numbers are tidy. The machinery behind them is not.
The State’s Appetite for AI
Jeen Technologies, once a small civilian robotics spinoff, is rapidly becoming one of Israel’s significant defense-AI companies. Its defense subsidiary, Jeen Defense, is now embedded across the country’s defense agencies, according to CEO Oded Tahori. He said the company began in civilian robotics within One Technologies before being spun out just a year and a half ago. “We started in civilian robotics,” Tahori 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 new interface. Civilian code, military demand, and a state security system that keeps asking for more. Jeen.ai has developed a secure platform for rapidly installing generative AI in large enterprises, while its defense-dedicated subsidiary focuses on sovereign AI systems, intelligence-driven analytics and mission-support technologies for defense customers. Tahori said Jeen is now part of Israel’s emerging national AI strategy, providing sovereign, secure systems that can operate without internet connectivity, which he said is essential for defense and intelligence bodies.
He put it bluntly: “Defense bodies in Israel understand that there is a company that can deliver AI without the internet.” He added, “They cannot work with OpenAI or global cloud systems, especially when it comes to intelligence.” The pitch is autonomy, but only for the apparatus. The public gets the bill, the agencies get the tools, and the whole thing stays sealed off from scrutiny.
Embedded Across the Apparatus
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,” and added, “For intelligence, for operations, for commanders who need cognitive support when they’re exhausted. Systems don’t feel stressed.” The line is almost comic. The people making decisions stay tired; the systems don’t.
Tahori said the company hopes to build the Israeli equivalent of Palantir, a sovereign AI system designed to support intelligence, operations and decision-making at scale. “We’re already showing Jeen as part of Israel’s defense capability in generative AI,” he said. “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,” describing it as connecting defense agencies to generative AI in a secure, sovereign way.
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. The 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). That’s not a startup in the garage. That’s the security state with a pitch deck.
Civilian Money, Military Reach
Jeen Technologies has raised $25 million in recent months, 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. Tahori described Jeen as a dual-use company, bringing civilian AI capabilities into defense where they are urgently needed. The company’s technology has already been adopted by major civilian institutions, including Bank Mizrahi, the Israel Electric Corporation and Maccabi Healthcare Services.
That civilian footprint matters. It gives the defense business a broader base, a cleaner image and a smoother route into everyday institutions. The article says that as Israel’s security establishment accelerates adoption of AI across intelligence, operations and command-level decision-making, what began as a civilian robotics project has evolved into a company that defense agencies sought out themselves, allowing Jeen to become a key player in delivering critical AI infrastructure for Israel’s defense agencies.
Jeen is shown at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The image fits. Markets on one side, security agencies on the other, and a company in the middle selling sovereign systems to a state that wants its intelligence offline, its operations automated and its control uninterrupted.