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 8,500 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, including across the Senate Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Armed Services committees and their House counterparts, 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, MEMRI, JCPA, ADL, AJC, the Wiesenthal Center, ZOA, AIPAC, Israel Policy Forum, and CUFI, and across Jewish institutional infrastructure from the URJ and USCJ to the Orthodox Union, Birthright Israel, JNF, Hadassah, and dozens of federations, JCCs, and synagogues nationwide.
Zehavi maintains regular contact with serving Israeli cabinet ministers, opposition leadership, the senior diplomatic corps, and senior figures across the Israeli government and the IDF. He advises Israeli political, governmental, corporate, and NGO clients on English-language strategic communications and messaging for Western audiences, and consults on diaspora threat assessment for Jewish organizational leadership and synagogue security committees. 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 four books published by Mitzpe Press: Holiday From History: The West’s Delusion of Peace and the Return of War, Rooted Truth: Israel’s Case Against the Deniers, Rooted in Judea: Lives and Law in the Heart of Israel, and Letters Across the Table: A Jew’s Letters to You, My Christian Zionist Friend. 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.