The stated mission of Israel Policy Forum is to shape the discourse and mobilize support among American Jewish leaders and U.S. policymakers for the realization of a viable two-state outcome.

[1][2][3] The Israel Policy Forum (IPF) was launched in 1993 at the encouragement of then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as a think tank and advocacy group to support the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.

[7] IPF was associated with influential policymakers and scholars, such as Clinton's National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, professor Stephen P. Cohen, and fundraisers Marvin Lender, and Alan Solomont.

In the wake of the violence of the Second Intifada, Israel Policy Forum garnered broad support for the Gaza disengagement plan as a step toward renewed Israeli–Palestinian negotiations and hosted Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a landmark speech that signaled his forthcoming political transformation.

In 2017, Israel Policy Forum founded IPF Atid,[9] millennial-led community to facilitate new connections, conversations, and campaigns surrounding issues in Israeli-Palestinian affairs.

Since its founding, IPF Atid has grown substantially with six different chapters around the United States, including New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston.

[13] In 2020, Israel Policy Forum released a study titled: In Search Of A Viable Option, which evaluates seven potential outcomes for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that assesses the strengths and weaknesses of different plans.

The missive warns against allowing the coronavirus pandemic to enable Israel to annex West Bank settlements, at a time when the country needs to unify in the face of a public health emergency.