ITME is the leading multi-modality learning experience about Israel and the Middle East.

We can work with you to explore one subject in depth or combine different subjects to create a customized briefing. ITME provides current, compelling, relevant, and lasting knowledge about the Middle East that will bridge preconceived notions and create an authentic, broad-based, ongoing dialogue that will strengthen interpersonal and communal ties.

Avi Melamed’s briefings provide apolitical, intelligence-based education on the Middle East designed to help audiences understand Israel in its regional context. These are not historical lectures; Avi provides the historical context to help understand current geopolitics.

His programs address a critical gap in Western discourse: the absence of regional voices that help people understand Israel in the regional context.

Drawing on decades of Israeli intelligence experience and deep engagement with the Arab world, Avi brings what Arabs, Iranians, Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, etc., are actually saying to each other directly into English-language forums—revealing perspectives and debates that rarely reach Western audiences.

Rather than advocating for any political position, his presentations teach audiences to think like intelligence analysts, understanding the ideological, historical, and geopolitical forces shaping the region's conflicts and power dynamics.

Guided by the principle that "to understand Israel, you must first understand the Middle East," Avi's briefings equip students, educators, professionals, community leaders, and general audiences with the contextual knowledge and analytical frameworks necessary to move beyond polarized slogans toward a nuanced, contextualized 

Each session connects today’s developments to the deeper forces that shape the region, including history, geopolitics, ideology, and internal Middle Eastern debates. By elevating Arab and Muslim voices too often absent from Western discourse, Avi helps diverse audiences move beyond slogans and engage complexity with context.

ITME Briefings are interactive, apolitical educational experiences grounded in ITME’s philosophy that to understand Israel, we must understand the Middle East.

Through intelligence-based analysis and regional context, Avi Melamed examines the forces that define the Middle East today, including state fragility, armed political movements, competing ideologies, regional power struggles, and internal debates within the Arab world. The briefings draw on Arabic-language discourse and perspectives that are often absent from Western conversations, offering insight into how events are discussed, understood, and contested inside the region itself.

A core element of the briefings is bridging the gap between Western narratives and Middle Eastern realities. Avi explores how concepts such as sovereignty, resistance, victory and defeat, accountability, and responsibility are understood differentlly, and what is driving polarization and misunderstanding in the West.

Rather than telling people what to think, ITME Briefings teach people how to think. Participants leave with a clearer, more contextualized understanding of Israel and the Middle East, greater confidence navigating complex conversations, and the ability to engage with nuance rather than slogans. In doing so, the briefings educate broadly while laying the foundation for deeper learning, critical thinking, and constructive engagement across differences.

Two years after October 7, the region continues to experience the domino effect of that day across Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, the Gulf States, and beyond.

We are living in a moment defined by confusion and confrontation. People are not looking for more narratives or noise. They are searching for clarity, context, and trusted education that helps them make sense of a complicated world.

In this real-time intelligence briefing, Avi Melamed connects the dots between today’s headlines and the deeper forces shaping them, revealing not only what is happening but where it is leading.

Drawing on decades of firsthand experience, Avi offers a rare, inside understanding of the region. He guides audiences toward a deeper understanding of Israel and its neighbors, exploring the regional dynamics driving both instability and the potential for change.

Using ITME’s signature framework:

• How did we get here?

• Where are we now?

• Where are we going?

Each program concludes with a live Q&A, offering participants the opportunity to explore current developments through Avi’s unique lens of intelligence, experience, and regional fluency.

This is not advocacy or politics. It is authentic, apolitical education, customized to reflect current developments in real time.

Avi Melamed, a former Israeli intelligence official, Senior Arab Affairs Advisor, author, and trusted educator, delivers briefings designed to help audiences understand Israel through the broader lens of the Middle East. He does not tell audiences what to think. He teaches them how to think, equipping them to engage with confidence, context, and critical thinking.

At Inside The Middle East | Intelligence Perspectives [ITME], we believe one thing above all: to understand Israel, you must understand the Middle East.

Through authentic, apolitical education, ITME helps people move from confusion to clarity and from confrontation to connection.