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They were an American company that took investment money from an Israeli VC, that doesn't make them an Israeli company.

The owners of Zend, Zeev and Andi are indeed Israeli making it a company under Israeli control for some time no matter what.

This whole story makes me sad.

I've been doing more googling and several articles refer to it as "Israel's Zend Technologies"[1] before the acquisition by Roguewave.