About Israel Brief
Israel Brief is the daily intelligence publication of the Mitzpe Institute. It reports on Israel, the war, the diplomacy around it, and the pressure on the diaspora — what happened overnight, why it matters, and what comes next, without euphemism. The daily brief is free in your inbox. The complete searchable archive and the member layer live at mitzpe.org.
We went looking for a daily brief that treated Israel as a sovereign state at war, not a problem to be managed through 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.
We are still inside history, not beyond it. The threats facing Israel and the West are old, recognizable, and answerable — and they reward clarity over comfort. Israel Brief treats Israel’s right to exist and defend itself as the floor of every edition, not the ceiling.
What We Publish
Israel Brief is the daily. Around it, the Mitzpe Institute publishes a wider set of titles, each at its own tempo, each doing a different job.
Israel Brief — daily, Sunday through Thursday. The morning read: what moved overnight, the war, Israeli politics, the region, and the shorter items in Briefly Noted. Free in your inbox.
Field Dossiers — long-form forensic case studies, built to cite and open to all. Sovereignty, deterrence, lawfare, and the long-arc forces shaping Israel and the West. Free.
Closed Dossiers — the tactical work, the sensitive sourcing, the narrower audience. For members.
Vantage — monthly. A month of signal drawn into a single arc: what hardened, what slipped, what pressure is forming next. For members.
Watchwords — weekly. The Friday briefing for the week ahead. For members.
The daily brief and the Field Dossiers are free. Closed Dossiers, Vantage, and Watchwords — the member layer — and the complete searchable archive live at mitzpe.org.
Publication Schedule
Israel Brief 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 daily editions.
Editorial voice
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, not moral authority.
Contact
General: [email protected]
Secure: Signal: @Uri.30 · Proton: [email protected]
