Diaspora Security Practice
The practice serves federation executives, synagogue security committees, JCC leadership, day school administrators, Hillel directors, museum boards, and other Jewish institutional leadership in North America and Western Europe responsible for protecting people, programs, and infrastructure. It delivers contracted threat assessment and on-call advisory.
The threat environment facing diaspora Jewish institutions is structural and ongoing. The ideological networks, targeting logic, and organizational infrastructure that produced October 7 reach directly into the cities your members and their children live in. Institutional security leadership inherited that reality without a corresponding update to the intelligence framework most boards were operating from. The practice closes that gap quarter to quarter — and answers the phone when something happens between quarters.
As an IDF vet and security advisor for my shul and religious school, your succinct briefings help me prepare my congregants and students for what they need to be aware of in their environment.
Karl
IDF veteran; board advisor on shul and school security
What the engagement includes
Four confidential editions per year. Each edition assesses the threat environment facing Jewish communities in North America and Western Europe, identifies emerging risks, and delivers operational recommendations for organizational security leadership.
Quarterly Perimeter brief.
Two scheduled briefings per year, calibrated to the Jewish calendar and the current threat cycle. Delivered by video conference for security committees, executive teams, or boards.
Live threat briefings.
Five to ten hours per quarter of direct access to the practice for emerging situations, OSINT screening of event attendees and venue environments, vendor vetting, incident consultation, and board-level briefing preparation.
On-call advisory.
The institute's daily Israel Brief, Dossiers, and Vantage inform every Perimeter edition. Diaspora threat tracks Israeli security developments closely — the same actors, networks, and targeting logic operate in both theaters, and the institute's readership across the US Congress, allied governments, and Jewish institutional leadership gives the work its baseline.
Out of scope:
Physical security implementation (guard contracts, hardware, access control buildouts) — refer to specialist physical security firms. Individual personal protection. Legal exposure and insurance disputes — refer to counsel. On-the-ground incident response — the practice can advise from intelligence and operational angles, but cannot dispatch.
Who anchors the work.
Mordecai Zehavi, Mitzpe's Director of Operations, anchors the Diaspora Security Practice. He works with fusion centers, US and European law enforcement, intelligence sources, and security directors across Jewish organizational infrastructure to produce each Perimeter edition and support client engagements in real time. His applied mathematics background — M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic, B.S. from Cal Poly Pomona — anchors the institute's analytical methodology.
With Uriel, he co-directs Mitzpe's Institutional Intelligence practice, which gives the diaspora work direct access to the same Israeli security and Middle East pipeline that serves corporate clients in energy, financial services, defense, insurance, and logistics.
Pricing
$3,000+ per year, calibrated to organizational size and scope of engagement.
All client engagements are confidential. Perimeter editions are distributed only to contracted clients and do not circulate publicly. The institute does not publish a client list.
For corporate risk teams, family offices, and institutional investors with exposure to Israeli security and Middle East developments, see Institutional Intelligence →
For the gated Perimeter publication archive (existing contracted clients only), see Perimeter →.
Inquiry.
Inquiries are triaged within two business days. Qualified inquiries move to a scoping call and contract.
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Organization name and primary location(s)
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Your name and role
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Constituency size (members, students, congregants, attendance)
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Brief description of current security posture and what you are looking for
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Existing security relationships, if any
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Timeline sensitivity
All inquiries: intel@mitzpe.org