Why is it absurd? I'm not following.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/2...
I certainly wouldn't trust a startup with IDF/Mossad connections with my data.
They all spy on each other's citizens. When it's not possible to do it directly, they will use covert means a la NSA slurping up data via transit lines, etc.
It being an Israeli startup makes your data no less safe from spying eyes than doing business with a UK startup or any other allied nation.
Everyone spies on everyone. Does Israel have a law like China's which mandates coöperation? It was my understanding they have a forcefully independent judiciary.
That may have been true ten or fifteen years ago, but is extremely not true today.