Al Jazeera Podcasts.

Hey, I'm Saril Khalili, and this is another take, where we revisit episodes from the archives.

Silicon Valley has emerged in the past decade as a major political force, with tech companies

now holding power once reserved for states, shaping speech, setting the terms of surveillance,

and deciding what to do with our personal data. And who works at these companies, where they come from, matters.

Last year, DropSight News revealed that hundreds of veterans from Israel's elite military intelligence unit

are now working in major U.S. tech companies.

Today, we're bringing you an episode about that pipeline and what it might mean for our

privacy, surveillance, and global security.

This episode originally aired August 29, 2025.

All dates and references are from that time.

Today, where do Israeli high-tech spies go after their government service?

We see a pipeline of people being brought in from the Israeli intelligence apparatus

into major roles in the cybersecurity space.

So what does it mean

when former Israeli spies

are embedded in the tech companies that run our lives?

I'm Natasha D'Oro, and this is The Take.

I'm Murtazza Lussein.

I'm a national security reporter for Dropside News based in New York.

Well, welcome back to the Tegmortaza.

So you published a story that was looking at more than a thousand Israeli intelligence

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