This intelligence supports planning and strategic decision-making processes in all government ministries by linking security aspects with civilian ones.

The forum serves as the basis for a mechanism that is currently being built in the Ministry to look ahead, and it includes researchers and a technological laboratory that provide assistance to decision-makers on the national level.

[2] During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, a Ministry paper dated October 13, "Policy paper: Options for a policy regarding Gaza's civilian population",[3] recommending forcibly transferring Gaza Strip's 2.3 million residents to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, was leaked to the media.

[6][7] Several weeks later, on November 19, 2023, in an opinion piece in The Jerusalem Post, minister of Intelligence Gila Gamliel backed the voluntary resettlement of Gazans outside the Gaza Strip, which she said members of the Knesset across the political spectrum supported.

[1] In March 2024, the Israeli cabinet approved abolishing the Intelligence Ministry and moving its functions to the Prime Minister's Office.