by Hannah Blazer | Oct 28, 2024 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
On October 9 2024, hundreds of Arabs and Jews from throughout Israel — including Jewish gap-year participants and young Bedouin — poured out of buses in front of Hebrew Union College. They were attending the “A Day of Pain; A Day of Hope,” event in which Shatil...
by Hannah Blazer | Oct 23, 2024 | News
Around the one year anniversary of October 7, NIFC is highlighting a few stories — out of thousands — of people who could have given in to anger and despair, but instead choose to dedicate themselves to building a future where peace, equality, justice, and democracy...
by Hannah Blazer | Oct 11, 2024 | NIF
By Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, NIF international board member On October 7 2023, I returned home at 10 PM after 15 tiring and exhausting hours of work in the emergency room of Soroka Hospital, in Israel’s southern city of Be’er Sheva. As I entered the door, one thought...
by Hannah Blazer | Sep 30, 2024 | New Initiatives for Democracy
By Mickey Gitzin, NIF’s Director in Israel Something has changed in Israel’s public discourse over the summer months. Something disturbing, evoking anxiety. The right, like the entire country, was rattled after October 7, but it appears that Benjamin Netanyahu...
by Hannah Blazer | Sep 30, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
With the ongoing, devastating war in Gaza and the threat of all-out war with Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border, many in the diaspora and Israel have not been focused on the dramatic rise in settler violence. According to NIFC project partner Yesh Din, 2023 was...
