What?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend_(company)
>Zend, formerly Zend Technologies, is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software company owned by software developer Perforce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perforce
>Perforce, legally Perforce Software, Inc., is an American developer of software [...]
"was" an Israeli company is entirely accurate.
Zend was founded by Israelis, from that same article on Zend:
> Zend Technologies was founded by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski who, along with other Israeli graduates of the Technion, the Israel Institute of technology
I am currently assuming it was founded in Israel, but to be fair the article does not explicitly say where it was founded.
> Zend Technologies was founded by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski who, along with other Israeli graduates of the Technion, the Israel Institute of technology, further developed PHP after its initial creation by Rasmus Lerdorf. The name Zend is a combination of Suraski's and Gutmans' forenames, Zeev and Andi.[citation needed]
Deliberately kept the citation needed, but still it is Israil origin which is enough for persecution.
Probably confusion stemming from one of PHPs well known hebrew identifier names that ended up making some error messages useless: T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM .