https://www.timesofisrael.com/harvey-weinstein-says-he-hired-israeli-firm-black-cube-for-days-like-this/
"Harvey Weinstein says he hired Israeli firm Black Cube"
"-the former Hollywood producer left his New York City rape trial and a reporter asked him why he hired Black Cube, a firm founded by former intelligence analysts from the Israel Defense Forces.
Prosecutors say the firm’s investigators used fake identities to meet with journalists and track the accusers to thwart publication of stories about Weinstein’s alleged sex offenses."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/britney-spears-was-spied-on-by-father-using-israeli-firm-ex-employee-says/
"Britney Spears was spied on by father using Israeli firm, ex-employee says"
But she supposedly only has 60 million to her estate...
Britney Spears’ father hired an Israeli-run private security agency to secretly record the pop singer in her bedroom and monitor her communications, a former employee of the firm has said in a new documentary.
Alex Vlasov, an executive assistant and operations and cybersecurity manager for Black Box Security for nine years, showed The New York Times evidence of secretly captured audio recordings, including Spears’ interactions and conversations with her boyfriend and children.
mercenaries gonna mercenary. israel is bathed in right wing ideology as much as any settler colonialist state.
There's also a big PR machine mythologizing them and working to shift the focus from what they're doing (ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and other atrocities) into just how gosh darn good at doing it they are, meaning any rich fuck looking for "the best" is naturally going to gravitate towards former IDF mercs.