That’s definitely not what I meant to write. In the words of our number one drone striker, uhh, let me be clear:

It’s much easier to believe that the Interpol was unable to successfully monitor or infiltrate mullvads servers even with warrants in multiple nations and instead took the alternate route of applying pressure to cdns and ISPs to blacklist the service as opposed to any other understanding because it’s much harder to convince everyone who handles packets globally to stop communicating with a set of IPs than it is to execute a search warrant that you have legal authorization and the specialized training and personnel for.

My interpretation of the reason that mullvad discontinuing port forwarding was acceptable to Interpol was that it would drive the people under investigation to either conduct their business under more compliant services or out in the open.

To directly address your concerns for your own choice of vpn:

If you’re worried about having your own data turned over to Israel, you can’t just rely on the physical location of servers to prevent that. The service you use needs to be trustworthy on its own because many nations comply with Israeli intelligence as a matter of course or as a matter of law. You may be well served by layering security instead of relying on just one service or connection in that case.

If your concern is not paying for a service that will eventually send that money to Israeli businesses or even to the government of that nation directly, that’s a toughie. Either because the region contains many motivated customers or because some VPNs are intelligence cutouts, a lot of VPNs have a server in Israel. Of the ones I use, airvpn doesn’t have any Israeli servers. I havent paid much attention to news about air and do not use it for sensitive communications. I do not recommend anyone use air for sensitive communications.