Disclosures

This page states where Mitzpe’s revenue comes from, where it does not, and how the institute keeps its public analysis independent of the clients who pay for contracted work.

Where the institute’s revenue comes from

Mitzpe has five revenue streams.

Subscriptions. Member, Team, and Supporter subscriptions to Mitzpe’s analytical publications. Pricing is published openly on the Subscribe page. Individual subscriber identities are private to the institute and are not shared with funders, partners, or clients. The free Israel Brief on Substack also carries optional reader-support tiers — Friend of Israel Brief and Promoter of Israel Brief — for readers who choose to help fund it. The brief stays free to all regardless; these tiers are voluntary support and carry no additional access or editorial influence.

Contracted services. Four lines:

• Strategic Communications — English-language messaging counsel for Israeli political, governmental, corporate, and NGO clients addressing Western audiences.
• Institutional Intelligence — sector-tailored intelligence retainers for corporate risk teams, family offices, and institutional investors.
• Diaspora Security Practice — contracted threat intelligence for Jewish organizational leadership.
• Nonprofit Advisory — operational advisory for Jewish and Israel-supporting nonprofits.

The work delivered under these contracts is private to the client. The institute does not represent any contracted client as having editorial influence over its public analysis. See “Client–editorial firewall” below.

Mitzpe Press. Royalty income from books published under the institute’s imprint. Author royalties are paid per contract; the imprint’s share supports the press’s editorial program.

Courses. Tuition from Mitzpe’s live cohort courses, priced openly on the course pages. Enrollment buys instruction and course materials only, and carries no editorial influence over the institute’s public analysis.

Reader contributions. Mitzpe accepts voluntary contributions and gift memberships from readers who choose to support its work — distinct from the Substack Friend and Promoter reader-support tiers above, which are recurring pledges tied to the free brief. Because the institute is not a tax-exempt charity, these contributions are not tax-deductible, and Mitzpe makes no representation otherwise. They buy no editorial influence; a gift membership confers only the ordinary published benefits of the tier purchased, to the named recipient, and nothing more. Contributions from the sources listed under “Where the institute’s revenue does not come from” are refused on the same terms as any other funding.

Where the institute’s revenue does not come from

Mitzpe does not accept gifts, donations, or sponsorship from:

• Foreign governments.
• Government-aligned entities of states with material interests in the regions the institute analyzes — including but not limited to the State of Israel, the United States federal government, and any third-party state with a stake in those regions’ affairs.
• Political parties, party-affiliated PACs, or candidate campaigns in any country.

Mitzpe does not contract with, accept money from, or otherwise transact with individuals or entities under sanction by the United States or the State of Israel.

Mitzpe does not enter sponsored content arrangements of any kind — no native advertising, no pay-to-publish placements, no branded “thought leadership” content.

Government clients

Government entities — including agencies of the United States, the State of Israel, and allied foreign governments — may engage Mitzpe under contracted services on the same terms as any other client. A government contract buys a deliverable; it does not buy editorial influence over the institute’s public analysis. Government engagements are governed by the client–editorial firewall and the conflicts-of-interest framework below. Where a government engagement would require softening a public Mitzpe position, the public position is the floor — the contract is declined or the analyst recuses.

The institute reserves the right to decline a gift or contract that, in its editorial judgment, would compromise its independence even where no formal rule above is violated.

Client–editorial firewall

The institute maintains a strict separation between contracted work and public analysis. Concretely:

• A contracted client does not see public Mitzpe analysis before publication.
• A contracted client does not approve, edit, or veto public Mitzpe analysis.
• The institute does not publish on a contracted client’s behalf and does not suppress public analysis on a contracted client’s behalf.
• Where a contracted client asks for analysis on a topic where the institute has already taken a public position, the public position is the floor, not a starting point for negotiation.

Conflicts of interest

Where a public Mitzpe assessment touches on a sector or actor in which the institute has a contracted relationship, that relationship is disclosed in the analysis at the point where it is material to the reader’s reading. The disclosure names the relationship type, not the client identity, except where the client has elected to be named publicly.

Where an analyst writing under the Mitzpe byline holds a personal financial interest in a publicly-traded entity discussed in the analysis, that interest is disclosed in the analysis, or the analyst recuses from writing on that entity. The institute’s principals and fellows are required to disclose material outside positions to the editor before publication.

Editorial independence from subscribers

Member, Team, and Supporter subscriptions buy access to Mitzpe’s analytical output. They do not buy editorial influence. Subscribers do not see analysis pre-publication. Subscribers do not commission analysis. The Supporter tier’s quarterly virtual-event invitation does not change that.

Where a subscriber organization has an organizational interest in a sector the institute analyzes, the subscriber’s organizational identity is treated under the same conflicts framework as a contracted client.

Affiliates and book commerce

Books in Mitzpe’s catalog and Mitzpe Press titles link to retail sales channels — primarily Amazon, with select titles available through additional retailers. Where the institute earns affiliate revenue from a sale through one of these links, that fact is disclosed in the relevant catalog page or book page. Affiliate revenue does not factor into which titles are recommended in the institute’s analysis. The institute’s editorial recommendations of books — its own and others’ — are independent of any commerce relationship.

What this page is not

This page is not the institute’s full financial accounting. Mitzpe Institute is incorporated as a US LLC and operates with the financial transparency required by that structure. Detailed financials are available to material funders under non-disclosure on request. This page is the public-facing summary — the answer a serious reader, a serious journalist, or a prospective fellow should be able to find without asking.

Contact

To flag a potential conflict of interest in a Mitzpe publication

disclosures@mitzpe.org

For funding questions and general institutional inquiries

shalom@mitzpe.org