About
Mitzpe Institute
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 90 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
From the daily read to the bound book.
Mitzpe analysts work from the ground — in Gaza, in Judea and Samaria, across Israel — with a quantitative methodology grounded in applied mathematics. The institute runs its own polling and field research, both for client work and as primary data feeding the published record.
One publication stack, the full operational cycle:
- Israel Briefdaily intelligence, every morning
- Field Dossiersfree, citable forensic analysis
- Closed Dossierstactical and operational, for Members
- Vantagethe strategic picture, monthly
- Watchwordsthe week translated into framing, every Thursday
- Perimeterthe diaspora threat environment, quarterly
- Mitzpe Pressbooks to a forensic editorial standard
Mitzpe does not publish on Shabbat, or on Fridays in preparation for it, and pauses on Jewish holidays and observance days. Any edition that falls on a non-publication date moves to the nearest preceding permitted day. There are no make-up daily editions.
The conviction
We are still inside history, not beyond it.
We went looking for a daily brief that treated Israel as a sovereign state at war, not a problem to be managed through process language. We didn't find one, so we built it. What began as a few lines shared privately is now read by policymakers, analysts, clergy, journalists, and serious readers across Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, and beyond.
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 cost a generation its moral seriousness, and October 7 is what the end of that delusion looked like.
Mitzpe's work proceeds from the premise that clarity, under pressure, is still possible. It takes discipline: verified sources, structural analysis, probability language where certainty is not warranted, and the willingness to name what is happening before naming it becomes socially inexpensive. Israel's survival is the floor of every analysis Mitzpe publishes, not the ceiling.
How we write
Facts first. Adjectives last.
We read across the spectrum and refuse to flatten truth into “both sides.” We call Hamas what it is. We say Judea and Samaria. We treat hostile narratives as instruments of pressure, not moral authority.
Leadership
Who runs Mitzpe.
Fellows & advisors
The roster.
FellowAlon PenzelFounding Fellow, Mitzpe InstituteIsraeli author, journalist, and former IDF foreign-press spokesperson, whose bestselling Testimonies Without Boundaries anchors Mitzpe's commitment to firsthand sourcing.Full profile 
FellowDaniel Clarke-SerretFounding Fellow, Mitzpe InstituteUK barrister and author of Pax Arabica, whose work on the vocabulary of the Middle East carries Mitzpe's reporting into Britain and Western Europe.Full profile 
AdvisorCheryl DorchinskySenior Advisor, Community Advocacy — Mitzpe InstituteFounding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, advising Mitzpe on diaspora community mobilization and the operational advisory practice for Israel-supporting nonprofits.Full profile
The full roster, with topics and booking · Fellows & Advisors
Our services
Where the analysis becomes operational work.
Institutional Intelligence
Sector-tailored intelligence retainers for corporate risk teams, family offices, and institutional investors.
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English-language messaging counsel for Israeli political, governmental, corporate, and NGO clients addressing Western audiences.
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Operational support for Jewish and Israel-supporting nonprofits, led by Senior Advisor Cheryl Dorchinsky.
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Two ways in.
The daily brief is free in your inbox. The deep analysis, the archive, and the operational layer live here — for members.