About
Mitzpe Institute
Mitzpe Institute, an educational program of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, focuses on Israeli security, diaspora threat assessment, and the strategic challenges confronting the Jewish people and the West. We publish the Israel Brief Monday to Thursday, along with forensic analyses, strategic assessments, and tactical briefings read by policymakers, military leaders, and institutional decision-makers across more than 95 countries and all 50 US states — from the Knesset and the US Congress to allied governments, major policy institutions, and Jewish organizational leadership worldwide.
What we publish
From the morning read to the bound book.
Mitzpe analysts work from the ground — in Gaza, in Judea and Samaria, across Israel — with a quantitative methodology grounded in applied mathematics. The institute runs its own polling and field research as primary data feeding the published record.
One publication stack, the full operational cycle:
- Israel Briefintelligence, Monday to Thursday, for members
- Dossiersforensic analysis, most of it free and built to cite
- Vantagethe strategic picture, monthly
- Watchwordsthe week turned into framing, every Wednesday
- Mitzpe Pressbooks to a forensic editorial standard
Mitzpe does not publish on Shabbat, or on Fridays in preparation for it, and pauses on Jewish holidays and observance days. Any edition that falls on a non-publication date moves to the nearest preceding permitted day. There are no make-up editions.
The conviction
We are still inside history, not beyond it.
We went looking for a brief that treated Israel as a sovereign state at war and wrote about it without the process language. We didn't find one, so we built it. What began as a few lines shared privately is now read by policymakers, analysts, clergy, journalists, and serious readers across Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, and beyond.
Antisemitism did not end in 1945. Jihad did not end with the Cold War. Tribal war did not end with the UN Charter. The delusion that these were solved problems cost a generation its moral seriousness, and October 7 is what the end of that delusion looked like.
Mitzpe's work proceeds from the premise that clarity, under pressure, is still possible. It takes discipline: verified sources, structural analysis, probability language where certainty is not warranted, and the willingness to name what is happening before naming it becomes socially inexpensive. Israel's survival is the floor of every analysis Mitzpe publishes, not the ceiling.
How we write
Facts first. Adjectives last.
We read across the spectrum and refuse to flatten truth into “both sides.” We call Hamas what it is. We say Judea and Samaria. We treat hostile narratives as instruments of pressure.
Membership
Becoming part of AIC
Since October 2026 the Mitzpe Institute has been an educational program of the Atlanta Israel Coalition. AIC is a grassroots, nonpartisan coalition that educates, mobilizes, and unites communities for Israel and against antisemitism. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, run by volunteers.
Membership comes through AIC, and it includes the members' side of mitzpe.org: the full Israel Brief, Monday to Thursday, the members' dossiers, Vantage, and Watchwords. The Flash Brief and the free dossiers are open to everyone.
Individuals
From $9 a month
or $72 a year
The full Israel Brief, the members’ dossiers, Vantage, and Watchwords on mitzpe.org, and the Author’s Table, free.
Join as an individualOrganizations
From $360 a year
congregations, businesses, and community organizations
Mitzpe Institute memberships for your people, with a yearly block of AIC event admissions.
Join as an organization
Where Mitzpe sits
The institute, in facts.
- Publisher
- Atlanta Israel Coalition, Inc.
- Mitzpe founded
- 2025
- Publishes
- Israel Brief · Dossiers · Vantage · Watchwords · Books
- Based
- The United States and Israel
atlantaisrael.orgEditorial standardsDisclosures
Community Risk Index
Our measure of the threat environment facing Jewish community institutions.
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Books published to the same forensic standard as the analysis.
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Leadership
Who runs Mitzpe.
Fellows & advisors
The roster.
FellowAlon PenzelFounding Fellow, Mitzpe InstituteIsraeli author, journalist, and former IDF foreign-press spokesperson, whose bestselling Testimonies Without Boundaries anchors Mitzpe's commitment to firsthand sourcing.Full profile 
FellowDaniel Clarke-SerretFounding Fellow, Mitzpe InstituteUK barrister and author of Pax Arabica, whose work on the vocabulary of the Middle East carries Mitzpe's reporting into Britain and Western Europe.Full profile 
AdvisorCheryl DorchinskyFounder & Executive Director, AICFounder and executive director of the Atlanta Israel Coalition (AIC), of which the Mitzpe Institute is an educational program, and an advisor to Mitzpe on diaspora community mobilization.Full profile
The full roster, with topics and booking · Fellows & Advisors
Two ways in.
The Flash Brief is free in your inbox, Monday to Thursday. Membership, with the full Israel Brief, comes through AIC, from $9 a month or $72 a year.