By Freddie Ponton

In April 2025, a Dutch government official organised a networking event for Israeli investors in Tel Aviv. More than 50,000 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza. The International Criminal Court (ICC) had issued arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister and Defence Minister. She put the photographs on LinkedIn.

Six months later, she left the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) and joined Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), a fund built from the alumni network of Unit 8200, Israel’s military signals intelligence unit, whose flagship exit ran through a no-employee Dutch shell company and ended in a $25 billion acquisition. Nobody wrote about it.

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