by Hannah Blazer | May 13, 2024 | News
By Rachel Liel, New Israel Fund Board President I was 23 years old when I became an ‘army widow.’ Ziv was killed in the Yom Kippur War. We’d been married two years. It was then that I learned intimately about loss. Since that moment, the phrase “army...
by Hannah Blazer | May 13, 2024 | News
Last month the Berl Katznelson Institute, a think-do tank working to build up the Israeli peace camp, convened a conference in Tel Aviv. The conference brought together a wide range of the Israeli left’s intellectual community, including a number of NIF grantees. The...
by Hannah Blazer | May 13, 2024 | News, NIF
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO For me, like for so many of us, the protests around the Gaza war on campus are hitting close to home, and not just because it dominates the news. I have two daughters in college right now, one of whom is about to graduate this...
by Hannah Blazer | May 3, 2024 | NIF
As we pray for a hostage deal, we remind ourselves that the same core values that have led the New Israel Fund for over 40 years continue to guide us now at such a difficult time. Watch the video below to hear from Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg, NIF’s Associate...
by Hannah Blazer | May 3, 2024 | Events, Human and Civil Rights, New Initiatives for Democracy, News
Just before Passover began, we completed the cross-Canada tour of “After October 7th: Towards a Political Vision for Israel-Palestine” in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Montreal. Our Israeli guests – experts in foreign policy, security, and human rights –...