Mitzpe Institute.
Clarity for those who act.
Mitzpe Institute is an intelligence and strategy organization focused on Israeli security, diaspora threat assessment, and the strategic challenges confronting the Jewish people and the West. We produce daily intelligence, forensic analyses, strategic assessments, and tactical briefings read by policymakers, military leaders, and institutional decision-makers across more than 88 countries and all 50 US states — from the Knesset and the US Congress to allied governments, major policy institutions, and Jewish organizational leadership worldwide.
What we publish.
Mitzpe's analysts work from the ground — in Gaza, in Judea and Samaria, across Israel — with a quantitative methodology grounded in applied mathematics and the capacity to put original research, including polling, in the field.
The institute also conducts original polling and field research, both for client engagements and as primary data feeding the published analytical record.
The publication stack reflects the full operational cycle:
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Israel Brief delivers daily intelligence every morning.
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Field Dossiers provide free, citable forensic analyses on strategic questions.
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Closed Dossiers deliver tactical and operational analysis for Members.
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Vantage synthesizes the strategic picture monthly.
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Watchwords translates the week's analytical output into deployable framing every Friday.
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Perimeter assesses the diaspora threat environment quarterly for Jewish organizational security leadership.
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Mitzpe Press publishes books that meet a forensic editorial standard.
The Conviction.
We are still inside history, not beyond it.
The threats facing the Jewish people and the West are ancient, recognizable, and recurring. Antisemitism did not end in 1945. Jihad did not end with the Cold War. Tribal war did not end with the UN Charter. The delusion that these were solved problems — that peace was the default condition once humanity arrived at the end of history — cost a generation its moral seriousness. October 7 is what the end of the delusion looked like.
Mitzpe's work proceeds from the premise that clarity, under pressure, is still possible. It requires discipline: verified sources, structural analysis, probability language where certainty is not warranted. It requires a willingness to name what is happening before naming it becomes socially inexpensive. And it requires an editorial floor that does not relitigate Israel's right to exist on every page.
Israel's survival is not a topic requiring fresh defense each news cycle. It is the floor of every analysis Mitzpe publishes, not the ceiling.
The questions the institute examines above that floor — the wars, the policies, the institutional failures, the strategic choices — are not approached from a place of neutrality. Neutrality on whether the Jewish people ought to survive as a sovereign people on their land is a position Mitzpe is not prepared to perform.
Uriel Zehavi
Executive Director
Uriel (Uri) Zehavi is executive director of Mitzpe Institute and editor of Israel Brief, the institute's daily intelligence publication on Israeli security and Middle East affairs. Israel Brief reaches more than 6,500 subscribers across more than 88 countries and all 50 US states. It is read in the Knesset — across coalition, opposition, Arab, religious, and secular parties — in the US Congress on both sides of the aisle, including across the Senate Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Armed Services committees and their House counterparts. It is read at Westminster, across allied foreign ministries, and at major policy institutions in Washington, New York, and Jerusalem. Its readership spans Jewish institutional infrastructure from the URJ, USCJ, and Orthodox Union to AIPAC, AJC, ADL, FIDF, and CUFI, alongside federations, JCCs, and synagogues nationwide.
Zehavi is in regular bidirectional contact with serving Israeli cabinet ministers, opposition leadership, the senior diplomatic corps, and senior figures across the government and the IDF. His advisory work serves Israeli political, governmental, corporate, and NGO clients on English-language strategic communications for Western audiences, and Jewish organizational leadership on diaspora threat assessment.
He and Mordecai (Modi) Zehavi direct Mitzpe's Institutional Intelligence practice, which serves corporate risk teams, family offices, and institutional investors across energy, financial services, defense and aerospace, insurance and reinsurance, and logistics and shipping.
He is the author of Holiday From History: The West's Delusion of Peace and the Return of War, Rooted Truth: Israel's Case Against the Deniers, and Rooted in Judea: Lives and Law in the Heart of Israel, published by Mitzpe Press. His fourth book, Jerusalem Watch: Enemies and Alliances in Israel's Seven-Front War, publishes June 2026. He studied English literature and law.
Zehavi speaks at synagogues, policy forums, donor groups, and private institutional gatherings across North America, Western Europe, and Israel. He is making Aliyah to Kiryat Shmona with his husband Modi in 2026.
Mordecai Zehavi
Director of Operations
Mordecai (Modi) Zehavi is director of operations at Mitzpe Institute. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His quantitative background anchors the institute's analytical methodology.
Zehavi leads Mitzpe's diaspora threat intelligence practice, working with fusion centers, law enforcement, intelligence sources, and security professionals to produce Perimeter, the institute's quarterly diaspora security brief, and the broader Diaspora Security Practice for Jewish organizational clients.
With Uri, he directs Mitzpe's Institutional Intelligence practice, serving corporate and institutional clients with sector-tailored intelligence retainers.
He is a fine art photographer. He and his husband, along with their pets, are settling in Kiryat Shmona.
Our Services
Mitzpe provides sector-tailored intelligence retainers for corporate risk teams, family offices, and institutional investors through its Institutional Intelligence practice.
Mitzpe provides strategic communications advisory for Israeli government, political, corporate, and NGO clients.
Mitzpe provides operational advisory for Jewish and Israel-supporting nonprofits, led by Senior Advisor Cheryl Dorchinsky.