Amdocs has its origins in 1967 when Israel’s Ministry of Communications awarded a tender for Israel’s Yellow Pages to Morris Kahn, who was backed by ITT. (See ITT in table, "CPP Investments.") Kahn, now one of Israel’s richest men, was a top shareholder in a private equity firm called Aurec Group. He and Boaz Dotan, former head of Israel’s Department of Information, cofounded Aurec Information in 1982 to sell billing software to telecom companies. The firm became Amdocs in 1985 when Southwestern Bell Telephone, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T, bought half its shares.

Amdocs has been the subject of several US-government investigations because it was suspected of transferring phone-call billing data to Israeli intelligence agencies. A Fox News report in December 2001 stated that:

Soon after 9/11, President Bush issued an executive order authorizing the NSA to conduct telephone surveillance without legal warrants. The scandal broke in the mid-2000s when it was learned that Amdocs’ largest clients, AT&T and Verizon, used two mass-surveillance firms from Israel (Narus and Verint Systems, respectively) to transfer data to the NSA on billions of phone and internet communications per day. (See "Israeli Spy Companies.")

AT&T apparently began collaborating in the government’s warrantless-surveillance program at least eight months before September 11, 2001. That’s when a project began to

In 1999, Amdocs announced it was integrating Narus systems into its own surveillance programs "to obtain comprehensive network usage information" including all data on "voice, video, and data transmission" over the internet.

Amdocs’ customers include top Israeli telecom firms, with links to Israel’s military: Bezeq, Cellcom, Pelephone and Partner Communications. (See Pelephone and Partner in table, "CPP Investments.")

The trusted connection between Amdocs and Israel’s military industrial complex was amply illustrated in 2011 when the government of Israel appointed Amdocs’ president and CEO, Dov Baharav, to become the chairman of the board at Israel Aerospace Industries, the country’s largest state-owned war industry. (See "State-owned Israeli War Industries.")

A search through the "Executive Profiles" on the Business Week website reveals some ties between Amdocs and Israel’s military and intelligence agencies. For instance, Sami Totah, an 18-year veteran of Amdocs (1984-2002), who served as the company’s chief operating officer and senior vice president, is described as having been a "Captain in an Intelligence Unit" of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). (Israel’s Globes business paper notes that Totah is "a veteran of Unit 8-200 (the IDF signal intelligence gathering unit)."

Business Week says another Amdocs’ senior vice president, Ayal Shiran, "served in the Israel Air Force, where he was responsible for…the development of computer systems for the F-15 jet airplane." (Israel has used this US-made warplane in numerous attacks, including against Lebanon in 2006, and Gaza in 2008-2009.)

Amdocs’ former general manager of corporate development, Yuval Baharav, did "software development and research projects…in the Israel Defense Forces." While at Amdocs, he managed the integration of an Israeli firm called XACCT Technologies Inc.

Amdocs annual SEC balance sheet
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AMDOCS LTD (Form: F-1/A), June 7, 1999.
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