1. The Military Crisis and a Shifting Energy Architecture On March 19, 2026, at a press conference in Jerusalem — with the war against Iran visibly escalating — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sketched out a possible new oil and gas transit route: pipelines…
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…
Introduction Israel’s intelligence community is likely to remember 2024–2025 as a period of unprecedented escalation in Iranian espionage activity inside Israel. Over these two years, the change was not just in the sheer number of detected cases but in the profile of those being…
How the American Withdrawal from Syria Confirmed the Worst Predictions — and Exposed New Threats Analysis based on a January 2026 survey conducted by the Dor Moria Analytical Center under the Haifa Format project. Sample: 1,009 respondents, nationally representative of the Israeli population. Margin…
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…
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, The Dor Moriah Analytical Center cordially invites you to the meeting of the Lobby for the Legalization of District Councils in Israeli Cities. Purpose of the event:Discussion of the bill regulating the status of regional committees, and the introduction of amendments and…
New Research Reveals a Dangerous Gap Between Israeli Perception and Geopolitical Reality Eighty percent of Israelis see Turkey as a threat. Yet only about 6% name the actors best positioned to check it. That gap is more than a polling curiosity—it may be shaping…
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…