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21 March · September 2017
Dor Moriah: the beginning
Dor Moriah was registered on 21 March. In September, participants launched Haifa Format, a platform for people-to-people diplomacy and public dialogue.
Dor Moriah · history and research
10 years of Dor Moriah
2017–2027. Ahead of the tenth anniversary, explore the centre’s history through its publications, research and projects. The timeline year is the original publication year, not independent confirmation of every event described.
Dor Moriah · history and research
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2017–2027 · From Haifa Format to urban initiatives. A story of people, research and public dialogue.
21 March · September 2017
Dor Moriah: the beginning
Dor Moriah was registered on 21 March. In September, participants launched Haifa Format, a platform for people-to-people diplomacy and public dialogue.
From this year’s archive
August 2019
Haifa Format: diplomacy between people
Before the Israeli prime minister's visit to Ukraine, an initiative group prepared appeals proposing Israeli participation in the peace process.
10 June 2020 · project publication
Clean City — Israel
The archive features Clean City: clean-up initiatives in Haifa, residents' participation and Walking Haifa outings that included cleaning urban routes.
9 December 2021
A solidarity response to the pandemic's impact
An international meeting in Odesa formed part of a project developed by Dor Moriah: a solidarity response to the social and economic consequences of the pandemic.
From this year’s archive
30 April 2023
Public conversation in Tel Aviv
Dor Moriah held a Haifa Format round table in Tel Aviv, bringing together academics, journalists, professionals and representatives of public organisations.
24 September 2024
From expert discussion to an initiative
A Haifa Format meeting took place in the Knesset. Developing neighbourhood councils in Israeli cities was one of its central themes.
Upcoming milestone
Ten years of Dor Moriah
In March 2027, the organisation will mark ten years. A time to bring together the history of research and initiatives and discuss what comes next.
A chronicle of people and initiatives
Events have been checked against Dor Moriah's public materials. A publication date is identified separately where the archive does not state when a project began.
August 2019
Haifa Format: diplomacy between people
Before the Israeli prime minister's visit to Ukraine, an initiative group prepared appeals proposing Israeli participation in the peace process.
10 June 2020 · project publication
Clean City — Israel
The archive features Clean City: clean-up initiatives in Haifa, residents' participation and Walking Haifa outings that included cleaning urban routes.
9 December 2021
A solidarity response to the pandemic's impact
An international meeting in Odesa formed part of a project developed by Dor Moriah: a solidarity response to the social and economic consequences of the pandemic.
30 April 2023
Public conversation in Tel Aviv
Dor Moriah held a Haifa Format round table in Tel Aviv, bringing together academics, journalists, professionals and representatives of public organisations.
24 September 2024
From expert discussion to an initiative
A Haifa Format meeting took place in the Knesset. Developing neighbourhood councils in Israeli cities was one of its central themes.
Upcoming milestone
Ten years of Dor Moriah
In March 2027, the organisation will mark ten years. A time to bring together the history of research and initiatives and discuss what comes next.
Publications by year
Article
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Trump’s Gaza Plan
On the same day that Nikolai Mladenov, the High Representative of the Board of Peace, condemned Israel’s Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, he released a separate document worth a closer look: a «roadmap» for the future of Gaza.…
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Turkey in Israel’s Geopolitical Environment: What the Expert Survey Found
Expert survey conducted in May 2026. Eleven experts — from the secular left to the religious right — agreed on more than they disagreed on. That convergence across the ideological spectrum is the central finding: this is a structural pictur…
Article
Turkey in Israeli Eyes: A Threat Without Confrontation
Most Israelis see Turkey as a source of threats and risks to the country’s security — above all in the context of East Jerusalem, Gaza, and a regional settlement. But anxiety does not translate into appetite for a hard line: responses are d…
Article
Trading Axes: Washington Finishes Off the Shiites and Arms the Sunnis
Trump is dismantling the Iranian axis — and with the same motion strengthening the Turkish one, which openly names Israel a threat On June 24, the Trump administration notified Congress of its intent to sell Turkey a batch of General Electr…
Article
The Peripheral Doctrine: Turkey and Israel’s Eviction from the India–EU Corridor
Ben-Gurion’s peripheral doctrine — leaning on the non-Arab periphery (Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia) against the Arab environment — has stopped functioning as a strategic frame for Israeli security. Two of its load-bearing states, Iran and Turkey,…
Article
How the Opposition Is Building the Case to Reject the Election Result
In the Knesset today, opposition leader Yair Lapid declared: «Russia and Iran are running influence operations against the Israeli public in the run-up to the election.» The theme of a future stolen election is being introduced not by a fri…
Article
The New Middle East — and Israel Isn’t in It
What was actually signed on July 22 «We are changing the Middle East and becoming a regional power,» Netanyahu said in March 2026, at his first press conference after the war with Iran began. He repeated the formula all year, and it had a s…
Article
Syria: Iran Threatens the Palace
If Damascus sends troops into Lebanon against Hezbollah, Iranian missiles will land on Syria rather than Lebanon: more than 100 strategic sites in the opening salvo alone, the presidential palace first among them. Tehran passed that warning…
Article
Iran: Washington pays with a carrier and its drones, Mossad pays with the plan’s authors
A U.S. official told the Washington Post that the intelligence on an Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump was «Israeli-derived, not U.S.-generated, and viewed as low confidence.» Israel passed the warning to the CIA before the president left t…
Article
The Mecca Pact Instead of the Abraham Accords
How the Mecca Pact changes Saudi security calculations and the role of normalization with Israel.
Article
Strait of Hormuz: the reopening is for sale, not the passage
Five commodity vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. None crossed on Sunday. The weekend before, the same two days carried thirty-one. Reuters published the figures from the ship-tracking firm Kpler on Monday, August 17. Before …
Article
B’Yachad: Bennett reverses the equation, Lapid demands a memorandum already conceded
«If Hezbollah fires at us, we strike Iran. A strike by the Iranian octopus’s tentacles inside Israel’s borders will exact a price inside Iran’s borders,» Naftali Bennett said on August 19 at the security conference of B’Yachad, the joint li…