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.
