Shai Arbel
Israeli former intelligence officer and reported Unit 8200 veteran who co-founded and runs the Netanya web-intelligence and counter-terrorism company Terrogence
| Shai Arbel
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|---|---|
| Image |  Arbel, from the NexTech Warsaw 2026 website |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation | Company executive |
| Known for | Founder and chief executive of Terrogence |
Shai Arbel is an Israeli former intelligence officer who co-founded the web-intelligence and counter-terrorism company Terrogence, based in Netanya, and is its chief executive.[1][2] The Swiss-French magazine Sept reported in 2016 that he had served in Unit 8200 (Intelligence Corps).[3]
Military service
The Times of Israel described Terrogence in 2018 as "co-founded by former Israeli intelligence officer Shai Arbel".[1] In a 2016 report on Israeli counter-terrorism, Sept journalist Chloé Demoulin wrote that Terrogence, founded in 2004, employed engineers and former members of the army's Unit 8200, and that Arbel, then aged 34, had himself been part of the unit (Israel Defense Forces).[3]
Terrogence
In 2018 Forbes reported that Terrogence's Face-Int facial-recognition service was built from images and videos "harvested" from Facebook, YouTube and other online forums, and that the company had been bought in 2017 by the Israeli-founded surveillance company Verint. Arbel declined to speak to Forbes.[1] A 2026 conference biography describes him as "the Founder and CEO of Terrogence Global, with over 20 years of expertise in WEBINT, OSINT and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)".[2]
See also
- Terrogence
- Verint
- Unit 8200
- Cyber and tech firms founded by ex Unit 8200 or occupation forces veterans
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Stuart Winer, Israeli intelligence company mining Facebook for counterterrorism data The Times of Israel, 24 April 2018, accessed 10 November 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NexTech Warsaw, Shai Arbel NexTech Warsaw 2026, accessed 10 November 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chloé Demoulin, Jihadism: What if Europe took inspiration from Israel? Sept (English translation of the French original), 24 March 2016, accessed 11 November 2026.