As a published author, Gorenberg is best known for his study on the origins of Israeli settlements in Israeli-occupied territories following the 1967 Six-Day War, The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 (2006). The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount was published in 2000. In The Unmaking of Israel (2011), Gorenberg decries the settler movement and how government support for the Haredi is undermining Israeli democracy.