by Hannah Blazer | Aug 27, 2024 | Social and Economic Justice
Photo credit: Eyal Warshavsky There are so many ways that Palestinian lives and rights are challenged in Area C, the 60% of the West Bank where nearly all settlements sit and some 100,000 Palestinians live. Over the past month, settler violence in these communities...
by Hannah Blazer | Aug 27, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
In late May, an Israeli airstrike set a Gazan refugee camp in Rafah ablaze, killing 45 people, half of whom were women, children, or elderly. International media covered the event, one of the deadliest single incidents in Gaza, notwithstanding the latest strike that...
by Hannah Blazer | Jul 31, 2024 | New Generations, News
Our 2024 Naomi Chazan fellows have just returned from an eight-day trip to Israel-Palestine, where they were able to meet with a wide variety of NIF partner organizations and learn about the crucial work they’re doing. From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and from...
by Hannah Blazer | Jul 30, 2024 | NIF
By Mickey Gitzin, NIF’s Director in Israel Nearly nine months into the war here in Israel, the words “together, we will win” still appear on street signs, supermarket receipts and on the sides of buses. This so-called unity slogan, which warmed hearts in October...
by Hannah Blazer | Jul 30, 2024 | News
By: Shimrit Braun Kamin July 25, 2024 My name is Shimrit Braun Kamin. I work for the New Israel Fund in San Francisco, and I am an Israeli expat, and proud member of UnXeptable’s volunteer organizing team. Yesterday, I was in Washington D.C. with hundreds of...