Key Recommendations

• Treat global antisemitism as a national-security and peoplehood priority – assign an annual global-antisemitism risk assessment to a dedicated interministerial unit linking the Diaspora Affairs Ministry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Security Council, the Jewish Agency, and relevant security bodies.
• Launch a national initiative on AI and antisemitism to address bias in digital knowledge – produce an annual AI-antisemitism index with public scorecards for major models; develop multilingual datasets in Hebrew, English, and Arabic on Jewish history, antisemitism, Zionism, and Israel; establish an expert correction lab for high-impact reference sources; create a working group with leading technology companies; and develop a fellowship track linking AI safety, Jewish studies, antisemitism research, and public policy.
• Build aliyah-readiness infrastructure for large-scale immigration by developing concrete absorption scenarios for 10,000, 50,000, and 150,000 immigrants over 24 months and translating them into housing stock mapping, municipal readiness indices, job placement, expedited credential recognition, Hebrew-language teaching capacity, school integration, and cultural support.
• Educational institutions and organizations should develop materials that encourage complex, in-depth engagement with Israel and emphasize the Israel–Diaspora connection. Israeli diplomatic representatives should strengthen ties with Diaspora communities and communicate Israel’s perspective more effectively.
• Invest more in helping Diaspora Jews understand Israeli reality and in helping Israelis understand life as a minority – programs such as Birthright, gap-year and study-abroad programs, and federation missions should emphasize lasting connections and expand two-way exchanges that enable participants to live and work in one another’s communities for meaningful periods.
• Seek more ways to “lock in” cooperation by bureaucratizing, normalizing, and reinforcing ties – for example, through the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – thereby making support less dependent on votes on foreign aid. Israel needs to stop writing off the Democratic Party as “anti-Israel.” Doing so alienates pro-Israel moderates – figures such as Hakeem Jeffries need support, not “demagogic cold-shouldering.”
• Research on Israelis living outside Israel should be conducted at regular intervals and expanded to cover new aspects of this population’s demography. If sound policy toward Israelis abroad is to be developed, this population must be properly documented.
• It is also time for the Jewish Agency and other Jewish organizations to develop policies that account for the significant presence of Israelis within Jewish communities throughout the Diaspora. In certain places, most notably in Europe, Israelis both transform existing communities culturally and bolster them demographically. Traditionally, Israeli policy in the Diaspora has focused on facilitating immigration to Israel. Alongside this approach, a complementary policy should emerge: helping Israelis abroad maintain their connection to Israel and Israeli culture.
• Israel and the European Union should institutionalize a more candid strategic dialogue that recognizes – rather than obscures – their differences. Many disagreements between the two sides are not temporary or event-driven but stem from deeper divergences in values and in approaches to security, statehood, and the international order. Israel and the European Union should seize the opportunity to redefine their relationship around a broader agenda of shared interests. While disagreements will remain, the partnership should increasingly focus on areas such as regional stability, technological innovation, energy security, counterterrorism, economic cooperation, and resilience against common threats.