An Israeli citizen has been sentenced in the US after pleading guilty to conspiring to steal a trade secret from an Arizona-based semiconductor technology company, in a case that adds to long-standing practice of Israeli-linked espionage.
Guy Galanti, 48, an Israeli citizen who lived in Scottsdale, Arizona, received a sentence of time served and three years of supervised release from US District Judge G. Murray Snow, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona announced on Tuesday. Galanti had remained in custody since his arrest in September 2025 and pleaded guilty on 26 May, 2026, to conspiring to steal a trade secret.
According to prosecutors, Galanti worked as a senior-level manager for Green Technology Investments (GTI), a Scottsdale company that services semiconductor testing machines and sells remanufactured machines with newly designed functions.
The Justice Department said Galanti conspired between January and August 2025 with another individual to steal GTI’s newly created “Glass Detect Design”, a proprietary system intended to allow a semiconductor testing machine to detect microscopic defects on glass semiconductor wafers rather than silicon ones. His alleged co-conspirator operated a Taiwanese company that competed directly with GTI.
