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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, an educational program of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, focuses on Israeli security, diaspora threat assessment, and the strategic challenges facing the Jewish people and the West. Mitzpe publishes the Israel Brief Monday to Thursday, forensic long-form analysis, strategic assessment, and original books through Mitzpe Press, and it runs its own polling and field research.
Boilerplate · reproduce verbatim
The Mitzpe Institute is an educational program of Atlanta Israel Coalition, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It covers Israeli security, diaspora threat assessment, and the strategic challenges facing the Jewish people and the West. Mitzpe publishes the Israel Brief, Dossiers, Vantage, and Watchwords, which are read across the Knesset, the US Congress, allied governments, and Jewish institutional leadership worldwide, and it publishes books through Mitzpe Press. Its writers, fellows, and advisors speak at synagogues, churches, community organizations, leadership forums, and donor groups across North America, Western Europe, and Israel. We also write commissioned analysis and op-eds. If you want one, write to press@mitzpe.org. Based in the United States and Israel. mitzpe.org
Fast facts
At a glance.
Organization
Mitzpe Institute
Type
Educational program of Atlanta Israel Coalition, Inc.
Structure
Program of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 84-2603211)
Founded
2025
Principals
Uriel ZehaviManaging DirectorMordecai "Modi" ZehaviTechnical Director
Flagship
Israel Brief — since September 2025, now Monday to Thursday · 10,000+ subscribers · 95+ countries · all 50 US states
Published in
Washington Examiner · The Algemeiner (op-eds by Uriel Zehavi)
Imprint
Mitzpe Press — five titles from two authors, Uriel Zehavi and Alon Penzel, with a sixth in preparation under its Guerre and Shalom imprint, edited by Daniel Clarke-Serret
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.
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·Middle East policy·confidence high, on independent press corroboration
Israel answered a sanction with a decision about its own city. Expelling 27 Israeli diplomats over it means Britain is punishing Israel for governing its own capital.
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].
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Leadership
Principals.
Uriel Zehavi
Managing Director, Mitzpe Institute · Director, AIC
Uriel (Uri) Zehavi is the managing director of the Mitzpe Institute, an educational program of the Atlanta Israel Coalition, and the editor of Israel Brief, its intelligence publication on Israeli security and Middle East affairs. It has published since September 2025, now Monday to Thursday — more than 250 briefs and more than 30 long-form dossiers, each at a permanent public URL — and it reaches more than 10,000 subscribers across more than 95 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 has four books 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. A fifth, No More Alibis: Political Islam’s Cult of Death and the West That Still Loves Life, is in preparation under Guerre and Shalom, an imprint of Mitzpe Press. 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 AIC and the secretary of its board.
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 and his husband Modi are in Israel often.
Technical Director, Mitzpe Institute · Director, AIC
Mordecai "Modi" Zehavi is technical director of the Mitzpe Institute and a director of AIC. 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 work, including the Community Risk Index. 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.
Founder 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.
The Israel Brief reaches 10,000+ subscribers · 95+ 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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