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Speaking

Mitzpe principals, fellows, and advisors brief synagogues, churches, community organizations, leadership forums, donor groups, and closed audiences across North America, Western Europe, and Israel. Every engagement runs on current intelligence, carries the standard of the publication stack, and is built around the room it is delivered to.

A podium and press setting before an audience
Every engagement is a briefing

Speakers bureau

Mitzpe offers its principals, fellows, and advisors for speaking engagements. Each speaker carries their own signature talks and the standing they were brought into the institute for.

  • Uriel Zehavi

    Executive Director, Mitzpe Institute

    • The Israel Brief, live
    • The Israeli election and what follows it
    • Judea and Samaria, from the ridge towns
    • Israel and the Christian Zionist reader
    • Diaspora security for Jewish institutions
    Full profile

  • Mordecai (Modi) Zehavi

    Director of Operations, Mitzpe Institute

    • Diaspora threat intelligence
    • Synagogue and institutional security
    Full profile

  • Alon Penzel

    Founding Fellow, Mitzpe Institute

    • Post-October 7 testimony and the documentary record
    • Campus antisemitism and the reframing of Israel in Western public discourse
    • Israel's strategic case to global audiences
    • The operational realities of IDF spokesperson work
    Full profile

  • Daniel Clarke-Serret

    Founding Fellow, Mitzpe Institute

    • How the language of the Middle East conflict gets written, and who writes it
    • Minority suppression across the Middle East beyond the Israeli-Palestinian frame
    • Britain and Western Europe after October 7
    • Israel in Spanish and continental European media
    Full profile

  • Cheryl Dorchinsky

    Senior Advisor, Community Advocacy — Mitzpe Institute

    • Grassroots coalition-building for Israel advocacy
    • Countering antizionism in schools and progressive institutional spaces
    • Community-level advocacy strategy and rapid response
    • Multi-faith Zionist engagement
    Full profile

Formats

Keynote

A single standalone address, built to run 30 minutes or longer, structured for one speaker rather than a panel, with Q&A optional.

Fireside interview

A moderated conversation between the speaker and a host, drawing out analysis in a more informal register than a prepared address.

Moderated panel

The speaker alongside co-panelists, working through a shared topic under a moderator’s questions.

Extended Q&A

An open-floor session weighted toward audience questions rather than prepared remarks.

Shabbaton scholar-in-residence

A multi-session weekend format across several sittings — drashot, meals, and informal study.

Closed-door briefing

An off-record session for a defined audience — donors, leadership, or security-sensitive groups.

Virtual

Delivered remotely by video, for audiences where travel isn’t practical.

The format follows the audience.