Institute for Zionist Strategies

The Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy (formerly named Institute for Zionist Strategies) is an Israeli think tank.

Institute for Zionist Strategies

המכון לאסטרטגיה ציונית
Founded	2005; 20 years ago (2005)
Headquarters	Jerusalem, Israel
Key people	Yoel Golovenski, president Yoaz Hendel, Chairperson Miri Shalem, Chief executive officer
Website	IZS homepage

Activities

Some of the activities of the Institute include the following.

Constitutional Task Force

The Institution wrote a draft for a possible constitution, which was presented in 2006.^{[1][self-published source?]}.^{[2][better source needed]}. The draft constitution emphasizes the sections defining the State of Israel as the national home of the Jewish people, and it significantly alters the relationship between the judicial authority and the legislative and executive authorities. The Constitutional Task Force listed among its members: Prof. Avraham Diskin, Prof. Moshe Koppel, Prof. Berachyahu Lifshitz, Judge (ret.) Uri Strosemn, Rabbi Dan Barry, Dr. Yitzhak Klein, Adv. Joel Golovensky and Israel Harel. This draft constitution was not adopted.

Foreign Funding for NGO's

This project studied more than 20 NGOs in Israel and their donors. The Institute, in collaboration with NGO Monitor, issued a joint report claiming that foreign governments were funding NGOs in Israel in order to influence Israeli policy and public debate.^[3] As a result, a bill was proposed to the Knesset requiring funding disclosure by NGOs receiving support from foreign political entities. The bill was approved in February 2011 and was not well received by the European Union.^[4]

Accusations of Bias in Academia

The IZS, as part of the research of Dr. Hanan Moses, examined the extent of "bias toward post-Zionist discourse" in sociology departments throughout Israeli universities and whether what the Institute views as the "Zionist narrative" is given equal treatment in Israeli academia. The investigation claimed that all Israeli universities except Bar-Ilan University have what the research describes as "post-Zionist bias" in their sociology departments. Those claims were compared by some to McCarthyism^[5][6]

October 2023 paper

In October 2023, the Institute published a paper describing the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel as "a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the entire Gaza Strip".^[7][8]