In today’s global village, regional conflicts extend beyond national borders. The International Policy Institute seeks international cooperation in the global struggle against terrorism, paving the way for multilateral action against terrorist networks, benefactors, and states sponsoring terrorism. ICT is a research institute and think tank dedicated to developing innovative public policy solutions to international terrorism. The Policy Institute applies an integrated, solutions-oriented approach built on a foundation of real world and practical experience. The Institute sets its sights on the big picture: to win the war against terrorism and not merely the individual battles. Although ICT provides situational recommendations to the private sector, this is a peripheral activity. The Institute aims to affect policy at the highest levels, in joint cooperation with the world community.

The Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies is a non-partisan and independent institute, affiliated with the Political Studies department at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. The Center was founded in 1991 by Thomas O. Hecht, a Canadian Jewish community leader, and is named in memory of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, whose efforts in pursuing peace lay the cornerstone for future conflict resolution in the Middle East.

The BESA Center provides policy-oriented research on matters of strategy, security and peace in the Middle East. Its publications and policy recommendations are directed at a number of audiences, including senior Israeli decision-makers, in military and civilian life, the Defense and Foreign Affairs establishments in Israel, the diplomatic corps, the press, the academic community, the broader public and leaders of the Jewish communities around the world. The BESA Center also sponsors conferences, workshops, lectures, symposia and briefings for international and local audiences, bringing together leading experts from the field and the academia, from Israel and abroad. BESA has developed cooperative relations with leading strategic research institutes throughout the world, from Ankara to Washington and from London to Seoul.

The Center is devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the modern history and contemporary affairs of the Middle East. The Center seeks to impart an understanding of the Middle Eastern past and present to academic and general audiences in Israel and abroad. A part of the School of History and the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, the Center's origins lie in the Reuven Shiloah Institute, which was incorporated into Tel Aviv University in 1965. The university combined the Shiloah Institute and documentation units dealing with the Middle East to establish the Center in 1983. Over the years, the Center has played a renowned role in illuminating the Middle East through research, publications, conferences, documentary collections, and public service. Its mission has been to bring scholarly objectivity to the analysis of subjects that often elicit strong emotional response. It does not take positions or recommend policies but seeks to inform the academic community, policymakers, journalists, and the general public about the complexities of the Middle East to advance peace through understanding.

JCSS, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, aims to conduct basic research that meets the highest academic standards on matters related to Israel's national security and Middle Eastern regional and international security affairs. JCSS also aims to contribute to the public debate and governmental deliberation of issues that are of direct concern to Israel's national security agenda.

IPCRI was launched to promote dialogue at various levels between the Israeli and Palestinian civil societies with the aim of advancing peace on the basis of the two-state solution. IPCRI is one of the bridge-building initiatives that have survived the onslaught of the Al Aqsa intifada and the associated restrictions placed by both parties on dialogue. IPCRI was founded on the principle that the center should be a joint partnership between Israeli and Palestinian intellectuals, with its governance and management built on co-leadership, reflecting a conviction that peace-building must be a joint and bipartisan effort (assisted by the international community). IPCRI undertakes a variety of information activities and sponsors joint Israeli-Palestinian forums.

IDI was founded as a center for policy studies, straddling the spheres of politics and academia, the world of decision-makers, and the world of thinkers in Israel. IDI serves as a resource for politicians and government officials who are searching for independent, professional partners; examines various ideas; and proposes practical ways to implement them. Carefully maintaining its independent status, IDI assists the Knesset and its committees, government ministries and institutions, local authorities, and political parties by submitting research papers and proposals for changes and reforms to their modes of operation. In addition, IDI fulfills its mission by compiling comparative information on legislative topics and on the functioning of various democratic regimes.