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About Mitzpe
What is 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. It produces 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. The work reaches the Knesset, the US Congress, allied foreign ministries, and Jewish organizational leadership worldwide.
Who runs Mitzpe?
Uriel Zehavi is the Executive Director of Mitzpe Institute. Mordecai (Modi) Zehavi is Director of Operations, leading the diaspora threat-intelligence practice and the Perimeter brief — an applied mathematician whose quantitative work anchors the institute’s methodology. Cheryl Dorchinsky serves as Senior Advisor, leading the nonprofit advisory practice. Fellows and advisors carry the imprint behind their own published work.
Is Mitzpe credible, and what is the methodology?
Mitzpe analysts work from the ground in Gaza, in Judea and Samaria, and 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. The standard is verified sources, structural analysis, and probability language where certainty is not warranted — facts first, adjectives last.
Who reads Mitzpe’s analysis?
The analysis reaches the Knesset, US Senate offices on both sides of the aisle, allied foreign ministries, and institutions from Brookings and Hudson to AIPAC and the AJC. The reader base runs past 8,500 subscribers across 90-plus countries and all 50 US states.
The publications
What is the Israel Brief?
The Israel Brief is Mitzpe’s daily assessment of Israeli security and Middle East affairs. Each morning the Flash Brief, a curated scan of what moved overnight, publishes by email on Substack, and the full daily assessment publishes free on mitzpe.org — analysis across the war, Israeli politics, regional developments, diaspora affairs and security, and the shorter items in Briefly Noted.
What is free, and what is for members?
The daily Israel Brief and every Field Dossier are free. Closed Dossiers, Vantage, and Watchwords are for members. Field Dossiers are free, citable, permanently indexable forensic analyses, and the Flash Brief arrives free by email each morning on Substack.
What are Dossiers, Vantage, Watchwords, and Perimeter?
Field Dossiers are forensic, long-form analyses of specific events, actors, or structural questions, sourced and built to be cited (roughly 20 to 25 a year, free). Closed Dossiers are tactical and operational material with sensitive sourcing, for members (roughly 15 to 20 a year). Vantage is the monthly strategic synthesis with probability language and scenario work, and Watchwords is the week’s analysis turned into framing and talking points, published every Thursday — both for members. Perimeter is the quarterly diaspora security brief for Jewish organizational leadership, distributed confidentially under contract as part of the Diaspora Security Practice. See the dossiers page for the full library.
How often does the brief publish, and when does it not?
The Israel Brief publishes every morning, Sunday through Thursday. It does not publish on Shabbat, or on Fridays in preparation for it, and it pauses on Jewish holidays and observance days. Any edition that would fall on a non-publication date moves to the nearest preceding permitted day, and there are no make-up daily editions.
Where is the archive?
Every edition of the Israel Brief publishes on mitzpe.org, free and searchable. The full searchable archive across all publications is a member benefit.
Membership and billing
What does Member include, and what does it cost?
Member is $100 a year, or $10 a month, and opens the operational layer — Closed Dossiers, Vantage, Watchwords, and the full searchable archive. See the Subscribe page for the full comparison.
What does Supporter include, and what does it cost?
Supporter is $250 a year, or $36 a month — everything in Member plus a free invitation to at least one Mitzpe virtual event per quarter, a direct line to the editor, early access to new Dossiers, and a mailed Mitzpe Press book each year. See the Subscribe page for details.
What does the free tier get me?
The free tier costs nothing and comes via Substack. It includes the daily Israel Brief open on the site, the Flash Brief each morning by email, and every Field Dossier, free and citable.
Is there a team or multi-seat option?
Yes. Member Team is $900 a year for up to 10 seats, with institutional invoicing and PO support. To arrange it, use the team-access route on the subscribe page or write the subscriptions desk.
How do I subscribe, cancel, or manage my membership?
Free readers subscribe on Substack; Member and Supporter are joined and managed from the Subscribe page and your account. For subscription questions or team access, write the subscriptions desk.
What is the Substack “Friend” and “Promoter” support, versus on-site membership?
The free Israel Brief on Substack carries two 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, and these tiers are voluntary support that carries no additional access or editorial influence. On-site Member and Supporter subscriptions, by contrast, unlock the operational layer, the archive, and the member benefits above.
Does paying give me any influence over the analysis?
No. Member, Team, and Supporter subscriptions buy access to Mitzpe’s output, not editorial influence. Subscribers do not see analysis before publication and do not commission it, and the Supporter tier’s quarterly virtual-event invitation doesn’t change that.
Services
What are the advisory practices, and who are they for?
Mitzpe runs four contracted practices. Strategic Communications provides English-language messaging counsel for Israeli political, governmental, corporate, and NGO clients addressing Western audiences. Institutional Intelligence offers sector-tailored retainers for corporate risk teams, family offices, and institutional investors (starting at $25,000 a year). The Diaspora Security Practice serves federation executives, synagogue security committees, JCC leadership, and Jewish organizational security across North America and Western Europe, and produces Perimeter (starting at $3,000 a year). NPO Operational Advisory serves Jewish and Israel-supporting nonprofits on governance, programming, events, crisis response, and fundraising, led by Cheryl Dorchinsky.
How do I engage an advisory practice?
The principals take engagements directly. Write the desk that owns the work, listed in the contact directory, or use the matching topic on the contact form. Nonprofit advisory is available at defined levels: quick consults at $250, extended sessions at $750, and projects from $3,000.
Do you offer courses?
Yes. Mitzpe runs courses that turn the institute’s analysis into instruction, in both live-cohort and self-paced formats. See the courses page for the current offering, its schedule, and its price.
Contact and corrections
How do I reach the right desk?
Use the contact form and choose the topic — press, institutional intelligence, diaspora security, speaking, advisory, nonprofit advisory, fellowships, courses, subscriptions, or events — and it routes to the person who handles it, with press and time-sensitive inquiries taking priority. You can also write any desk directly from the email directory on the contact page.
Is there a secure or confidential channel?
Yes. For tipsters, sources, and anything sensitive, Mitzpe can be reached off the record, including via Signal and an encrypted Proton email address listed on the contact page.
How do I request a correction?
For corrections and editorial matters, write the general or press desk in the contact directory. To flag a potential conflict of interest, use the dedicated address on the disclosures page. Mitzpe writes to a forensic editorial standard: verified sources, structural analysis, and probability language where certainty is not warranted.
Who funds Mitzpe, and is the analysis independent?
Mitzpe has five revenue streams: subscriptions, contracted services (Strategic Communications, Institutional Intelligence, the Diaspora Security Practice, and Nonprofit Advisory), royalty income from Mitzpe Press books, tuition from live cohort courses, and voluntary reader contributions (including gift memberships). It does not accept gifts, donations, or sponsorship from foreign governments, government-aligned entities, or political parties, PACs, or campaigns, and it runs no sponsored content. Reader contributions are voluntary support — not tax-deductible — and buy no editorial influence. A strict client-editorial firewall keeps public analysis independent: contracted clients and subscribers do not see, approve, edit, or veto analysis before publication.
For the full picture, see Disclosures, the Editorial Standards and Corrections Policy, and Subscribe.