U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s interview with Tucker Carlson has become a major news event in its own right.1 It has provoked a backlash within the Republican Party at home and threatens to reshape international dynamics, particularly in the Middle East. How will…
The Ontological Bubble of Israeli Society Through the Lens of a New Survey Research conducted by the Dor Moria Analytical Center in partnership with the Geocartography Center as part of the Haifa Format project. Sample: 1,009 respondents, representative of Israel’s population aged 18+. Margin…
How Financial Oligarchy Turned Capitalism Into a System for Producing Subjectlessness Wells’s Prophecy Fulfilled in Reverse In H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, humanity splits into two species: the beautiful, carefree Eloi living in gardens on Earth’s surface, and the grotesque Morlocks operating underground machines….
Abstract This Dor Moria study examines a core strategic contradiction in U.S. Middle East policy: engaging the transnational Muslim Brotherhood (MB) while claiming to combat Islamism. We argue that the MB—an ideological incubator for Al-Qaeda and ISIS—has become a tool of managed instability as…
Two Conceptions of the State The Dor Moriah analytical center has conducted sociological research for several years studying Israel’s social divisions. We identified a form of division that we’ve designated with the metaphor of the “ontological bubble.” This is a model describing the formation…
Background: Gulf Monarchies, Israel, and the Muslim Brotherhood The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) – a transnational Islamist movement – is viewed as a dire threat by many Middle Eastern regimes. Gulf monarchies such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt have outlawed the MB as…
Igor Kaminnyk New research from the Dor Moriah think tank reveals a striking disconnect: while policy experts debate grand strategy, ordinary Israelis have completely tuned out the geopolitical “great game”—and Israel’s right-wing establishment is quietly preparing for a future without reliable allies The Dor…
Israel’s right wing is turning up the heat on Donald Trump and Washington, frustrated by what it sees as an unpredictable White House too eager to cut deals that cross their red lines: no Palestinian state, no extended cease-fires, and complete military freedom for…
US-Russia Presidential Summit in Alaska on August 15, 2025, and Israeli Public Opinion A survey of 1,009 Israeli internet users aged 18 and older was conducted in late August 2025, providing a nationally representative sample of this population. The margin of error is ±2.9%…
Expert Assessment of the Trump–Putin Summit and Its Implications for Israeli Strategic Interests Preliminary findings ahead of a nationwide Israeli public opinion survey 1. Introduction The Dor Moriah think tank conducted an expert survey from August 10–12, 2025, to forecast potential outcomes of the…