Ituran Location and Control Ltd. is an Israeli company that provides stolen vehicle recovery and tracking services, and markets GPS wireless communications products.

Ituran has over 3,200 employees worldwide and is a market leader in Brazil, Argentina, Israel and the United States.

It received initial funding from a unit of AirTouch Communication (formerly known as Pacific Telesis) in exchange for 49% equity of the company.

Teletrac contracted Tadiran to build base stations for their US system which were later used under license in deploying the network in Israel.

[2] In 1998, the company had an initial public offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, raising the capital required to develop the service overseas in the United States, Brazil and Argentina.

The Mapa Group consists of three divisions: geographical databases, map publishing in print and online, satellite navigation and location-based services.

Mapa eventually moved solely into cartography, becoming the market leader in map making for the public sector in 1995.