About Israel Victory Project

The Israel Victory Project steers U.S. and Israeli policy toward backing an Israel victory over the Palestinians to end the conflict by convincing the Palestinians of their defeat in their century-long war against Israel.

Mission and Vision

Only once this foundational concept is accepted can any discussions about the future relationship between Israel and the Palestinians truly begin.

What we do

We work in the United States and Israel to facilitate a change in the public discourse and policies towards an Israeli victory that aims to encourage Palestinian leadership and society and their supporters that their best chance at prosperity will come once they accept that Israel is the Jewish state and that the war to eradicate Israel has ended and Israel won.

Who we are

The Middle East Forum

The Middle East Forum promotes American interests in the Middle East and protects Western values from Middle Eastern threats. The Forum sees the region — with its profusion of dictatorships, radical ideologies, existential conflicts, border disagreements, corruption, political violence, and weapons of mass destruction — as a major source of problems for the United States. Accordingly, we urge bold measures to protect Americans and their allies. In the Middle East, we focus on ways to defeat radical Islam; work for Palestinian acceptance of Israel; develop strategies to contain Iran; and deal with the great advances of anarchy. At home, the Forum emphasizes the danger of lawful Islamism; protects the freedoms of anti-Islamist authors, activists, and publishers; and works to improve Middle East studies.

Daniel Pipes

Daniel Pipes has led the Forum since its founding in 1994. He served in five U.S. administrations, received two presidential appointments, and testified before many congressional committees. He is the author of eighteen books on the Middle East, Islam, and other topics. With an A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard, he has taught at Chicago, Harvard, Pepperdine, and the U.S. Naval War College; currently he is an affiliate professor at the University of Haifa. Mr. Pipes writes a column for the Washington Times and his writings have been translated into 39 languages. The Washington Post deems him “perhaps the most prominent U.S. scholar on radical Islam.” Al-Qaeda invited Mr. Pipes to convert, Edward Said called him an “orientalist,” and Edward Kennedy borked him. For an archive of his writings and media appearances, see danielpipes.org.
Contact: Pipes@MEForum.org

Gregg Roman

Gregg Roman serves as the chief operations officer for the Forum, responsible for day-to-day management, communications, and financial resource development. Mr. Roman previously served as director of the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. In 2014, he was named one of the ten most inspiring global Jewish leaders by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He previously served as the political advisor to the deputy foreign minister of Israel and worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Mr. Roman is a frequent speaker at venues around the world, often appears on television, and has written for the Hill, the Forward, the Albany Times-Union, and other publications. He attended American University in Washington, D.C., and the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel, where he studied national security studies and political communications.
Contact: Roman@MEForum.org

Alex Selsky

Alex Selsky is a senior adviser to the Israel Victory Project and serves on the board of directors of Middle East Forum-Israel.

Mr. Selsky currently serves as a reserve major in the IDF Homefront Command emergency information unit. He is also a lecturer at the School of Politics and Journalism at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem.

Previously, Mr. Selsky served as an advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spokesperson for the Israeli National Economic Council, member of the board of governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, member of the executive board of the World Zionist Organization, and CEO of the International Israel Beytenu Movement.

He holds a B.A. in Business and an Executive Master of Public Policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Co-chairs of the Israel Victory Caucus:

MK Ohad Tal

Ohad Tal (Hebrew: אוהד טל) is a member of Knesset for the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism. He heads the Public Enterprises Knesset Committee and is a member of the Security and Foreign affairs committee, Economics committee and Diaspora and absorption committee. [Au: something on his background?]

For ten years, Mr. Tal led different educational initiatives that sought to connect the international community to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In 2013, he embarked as an emissary (shaliach) of the Jewish Agency for Israel and World Bnei Akiva movement to the Netherlands.

After his time as an emissary, Mr. Tal founded and directed the Religious Zionist Emissary Centre – a coalition of several nonprofit organizations responsible for diaspora relations and activities abroad among religious Zionist communities. Following his return to Israel, he served as deputy director of World Mizrachi Movement. In 2021, Mr. Tal became director of World Bnei Akiva, the largest Zionist youth movement in the world.

Mr. Tal became a member of Knesset (parliament) running for the Religious Zionism party in 2022. He served as chairman of the Knesset committee for public projects and is an active member of the security and foreign affairs committee as well as the absorption committee.

MK Evgeny Sova

Born in the Pervomaisk, Ukraine on August 29, 1980, Evgeny Sova made aliyah to Israel in 1997. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Bar-Ilan University and a master’s degree in political communication from [Au: ?].

He served in the IDF as a Complaints Officer. In 2005, he began working as a reporter and investigator for the Vesti newspaper. his television career began a year later, initially at Channel 2 News and later at Channel 9 News. Since 2007, Mr. Sova has been the political and diplomatic commentator for Channel 9 and has hosted daily current affairs programs (“Three Opinions,” “Contact,” “Hero of the Day”). In 2012, he broadcast the European Football Championship games on Channel 9 and produced a 48-minute documentary film, Football for Life.

In 2014, he worked at the international Russian-language channel RTVI hosting the program “This Week in Israel” until 2019. For ten years (2009-2019), he freelanced for the BBC in Russian, covering events in Israel and the Middle East.

He first entered the Knesset in 2019, as a member of the Yisrael Beiteinu party. Mr. Sova has served as a member of the Education Committee, the Economy Committee, the Child Rights Committee, and the Science and Technology Committee.

He is married to Marina, a Ph.D. in biology, and has three daughters. He resides in Petah Tikva.