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Media Contact

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About Mitzpe

Mitzpe Institute is an intelligence and strategy organization focused on Israeli security, diaspora threat assessment, and the strategic challenges facing the Jewish people and the West. Mitzpe produces daily intelligence, forensic long-form analysis, strategic assessment, and original books through its publishing imprint, Mitzpe Press. The institute also conducts original polling and field research for clients and for its published analytical record.

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Mitzpe Institute is an intelligence and strategy organization focused on Israeli security, diaspora threat assessment, and the strategic challenges facing the Jewish people and the West. Mitzpe publishes daily intelligence, forensic analyses, strategic assessments, and tactical briefings read across the Knesset, the US Congress, allied governments, and Jewish institutional leadership worldwide. The institute provides sector-tailored intelligence retainers for corporate and institutional clients, diaspora security briefings for Jewish organizational leadership, strategic communications advisory for Israeli government and corporate clients, operational advisory for Jewish and Israel-supporting nonprofits, and publishes books through Mitzpe Press. Its principals, fellows, and advisors speak at synagogues, churches, community organizations, leadership forums, donor groups, and private briefings across North America, Western Europe, and Israel. Based in the United States and Israel.
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Fast facts

  • Organization: Mitzpe Institute

  • Type: Intelligence and strategy organization

  • Principals: Uriel Zehavi (Executive Director), Mordecai "Modi" Zehavi (Director of Operations)

  • Flagship: Israel Brief, daily intelligence, 7,000+ subscribers across 90+ countries and all 50 US states

  • Imprint: Mitzpe Press (five titles)

  • Based in: United States and Israel

  • Web: mitzpe.org · Press: press@mitzpe.org

Publications & services

Israel Brief: Daily intelligence on Israeli security and Middle East affairs. Free, five days a week.

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Mitzpe Dossiers: Long-form forensic analyses. Field Dossiers are free; Closed Dossiers are available to Mitzpe Members.

 

Vantage: Monthly strategic synthesis. Members only.

 

Watchwords: Weekly Friday tactical post. Members only.

 

Perimeter: Quarterly diaspora security brief. Contracted.

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Diaspora Security Practice: Contracted threat intelligence for Jewish organizational security leadership. Quarterly brief, live briefings, advisory hours.

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Institutional Intelligence: Sector-tailored intelligence retainers for corporate risk teams, family offices, and institutional investors.

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Quarterly strategic briefs, monthly analytical calls, on-call advisory.

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Nonprofit Advisory: Operational and tactical advisory for Jewish and Israel-supporting nonprofits, led by Senior Advisor Cheryl Dorchinsky. Governance, programming, crisis response, community-advocacy strategy.

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Mitzpe Press: Publishing imprint. Five titles: Holiday From History, Rooted Truth, Rooted in Judea, and Letters Across the Table by Uriel Zehavi, and Testimonies Without Boundaries by Alon Penzel.

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Field Research: Original polling and survey research capacity, feeding both advisory engagements and the institute's published analysis.

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Leadership Bios and Headshots

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Uriel Zehavi

Executive Director, Mitzpe Institute; Editor, Israel Brief

Uriel (Uri) Zehavi is the executive director of Mitzpe Institute and the editor of Israel Brief, a daily intelligence publication on Israeli security and Middle East affairs. Israel Brief reaches more than 7,000 subscribers across more than 90 countries and all 50 US states. It is read in the Knesset, across coalition, opposition, Arab, religious, and secular parties, in Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 92 of 100 US Senate offices on both sides of the aisle, at Westminster, across allied foreign ministries, and at major policy institutions including RAND, the Atlantic Council, JINSA, Brookings, Hudson, the Quincy Institute, the Wilson Center, FDD, CSIS, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and MEMRI, alongside Jewish institutional leadership from AIPAC, AJC, and the ADL to the Orthodox Union, the URJ, JNF, Hadassah, and federations, JCCs, and synagogues nationwide. He advises Israeli political, governmental, corporate, and NGO clients on English-language strategic communications for Western audiences, and consults on diaspora threat assessment for Jewish organizational leadership. With Modi Zehavi he directs Mitzpe's Institutional Intelligence practice. He is the author of four books published by Mitzpe Press: Holiday From History, Rooted Truth, Rooted in Judea, and Letters Across the Table: A Jew's Letters to You, My Christian Zionist Friend. He speaks at synagogues, policy forums, donor groups, and private institutional gatherings across North America, Western Europe, and Israel.

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Mordecai "Modi" Zehavi

Director of Operations, Mitzpe Institute

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, producing Perimeter, the institute's quarterly diaspora security brief, and the broader Diaspora Security Practice for Jewish organizational clients. With Uriel, he directs Mitzpe's Institutional Intelligence practice. He is a fine art photographer, and speaks on diaspora security at organizational and institutional events.

Reach

Israel Brief reaches more than 7,000 subscribers across more than 90 countries and all 50 US states. Readership spans the Knesset and Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 92 of 100 US Senate offices, Westminster, allied foreign ministries, and major policy institutions, from RAND, the Atlantic Council, and JINSA to Hudson, the Quincy Institute, the Wilson Center, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and MEMRI, alongside Jewish institutional leadership at AIPAC, AJC, JNF, Hadassah, the URJ, the Orthodox Union, federations, JCCs, and synagogues nationwide.

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Logos

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Contact

Media: press@mitzpe.org

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Institutional Intelligence: institutional@mitzpe.org

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Diaspora Security: intel@mitzpe.org

 

Nonprofit Advisory: nonprofits@mitzpe.org

 

Speaking: speak@mitzpe.org

 

Web: mitzpe.org

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