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Intelligence and strategy on Israeli security, diaspora threat assessment, and the challenges facing the Jewish people and the West.
About Mitzpe
For journalists.
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 Mitzpe Press. Mitzpe also conducts original polling and field research.
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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. mitzpe.org
Fast facts
At a glance.
Organization
Mitzpe Institute
Type
Intelligence and strategy organization
Structure
US LLC — consultancy and media company
Founded
2025
Principals
Uriel ZehaviExecutive DirectorMordecai "Modi" ZehaviDirector of Operations
Flagship
Israel Brief — daily intelligence since September 2025 · 8,500+ subscribers · 90+ countries · all 50 US states
Imprint
Mitzpe Press — six titles from two authors, Uriel Zehavi and Alon Penzel (one forthcoming)
Seven subjects, and somebody here works each one every day. If your story sits in one of them, this is who to ask for. The longer description of each area is on the coverage page.
Uriel Zehavi
Israeli security and the seven-front war
Uriel Zehavi
Iran, its nuclear program, and the proxy network
Uriel Zehavi
Judea and Samaria
Modi Zehavi
Diaspora threat intelligence
Uriel Zehavi
Antisemitism, antizionism, and lawfare
Uriel Zehavi
Western policy after October 7
Uriel Zehavi
Christian Zionism as a strategic factor
Uri's full speaking profile — bio, talks, formats, and the US dates — is at mitzpe.org/speaking/uri.
Citation
How to cite Mitzpe.
Field Dossiers and Israel Brief editions are built to be cited — each keeps a stable, permanent URL on this site. Cite them as you would any authored analysis: use the piece's own byline where one is given, and Mitzpe Institute as the publisher.
Field Dossier
[Author], "[Dossier title]," Field Dossier (Mitzpe Institute, [Month Day, Year]), [permanent URL].
Israel Brief
"[Edition title]," Israel Brief, Mitzpe Institute, [Month Day, Year], [permanent URL].
Each Field Dossier and Israel Brief edition carries its permalink on the page itself. For a specific reference, a permalink, or permission beyond fair use, write press@mitzpe.org.
Leadership
Principals.
Uriel Zehavi
Executive Director, Mitzpe Institute
Uriel (Uri) Zehavi is the executive director of Mitzpe Institute and the editor of Israel Brief, its daily intelligence publication on Israeli security and Middle East affairs. It has published every day since September 2025 — more than 200 briefs and more than 30 long-form dossiers, each at a permanent public URL — and it reaches more than 8,500 subscribers across more than 90 countries and all 50 US states. It is read in the Knesset, in US Senate offices on both sides of the aisle, at allied foreign ministries, and across policy and Jewish institutional leadership — the Wilson Center, JINSA, and the Orthodox Union among them.
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 has four books in print from 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. The fifth, No More Alibis, publishes on 13 October 2026. Mitzpe Press also publishes Alon Penzel’s Testimonies Without Boundaries, the October 7 testimony collection, a bestseller in nine countries and seven languages.
He studied English literature and law. He is a director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition.
Zehavi speaks at synagogues, churches, federations, day schools, campuses, 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.
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, and his quantitative background anchors the institute's analytical methodology. He leads Mitzpe's diaspora threat intelligence practice — producing Perimeter, the quarterly diaspora security brief, and the broader Diaspora Security Practice — and co-directs the Institutional Intelligence practice with Uriel. He is a fine art photographer and speaks on diaspora security at organizational and institutional events.
Israeli author, journalist, and former IDF foreign-press spokesperson, whose bestselling Testimonies Without Boundaries anchors Mitzpe's commitment to firsthand sourcing.
Senior Advisor, Community Advocacy — Mitzpe Institute
Founding executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, advising Mitzpe on diaspora community mobilization and the operational advisory practice for Israel-supporting nonprofits.
The Israel Brief reaches 8,500+ subscribers · 90+ countries · all 50 US states. Readership spans the Knesset and Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, US Senate offices on both sides of the aisle, Westminster and allied foreign ministries, and the major policy institutions — RAND, the Atlantic Council, JINSA, Brookings, Hudson, the Quincy Institute, the Wilson Center, FDD, CSIS, WINEP (the Washington Institute), and MEMRI — alongside Jewish institutional leadership from AIPAC, AJC, and the ADL to JCPA, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, ZOA, Israel Policy Forum, and CUFI, and across the Orthodox Union, the URJ, USCJ, JNF, Hadassah, and Birthright Israel to federations, JCCs, and synagogues nationwide.
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