by Hannah Cohen | Aug 24, 2022 | News
By Daniel Sokatch, International CEO of the New Israel Fund I often say that the New Israel Fund’s work to build a better, fairer Israel is a marathon, not a sprint. And I’ll say it one more time, now. This year, our action arm Shatil, dedicated to the...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 23, 2022 | Action Alert
Last week, the Israeli military raided the offices of seven leading Palestinian civil society organizations and ordered them to cease their vital work. The raids came ten months after the Israeli Ministry of Defense designated these seven human rights groups...
by Hannah Cohen | Jul 21, 2022 | Religious Freedom
The pride parade in the Negev town of Mitzpe Ramon went ahead in June as planned after Israel Police withdrew its decision to reroute the event to the city’s outskirts. Israel Police backed down on its instruction to reroute the parade following a petition to the...
by Hannah Cohen | Jul 20, 2022 | Gender Equality, Religious Freedom
The Jerusalem Magistrate Court has ordered Israel Railways and Danel, the company that provides guards for trains, to pay Israeli citizen Maya Melitz NIS 16,000 ($4,600) as compensation for being forced to move to another car because she is a woman. Melitz was...
by Hannah Cohen | Jul 20, 2022 | News
By Ben Murane, Executive Director Just two weeks ago in central Tel Aviv, I witnessed a touching moment between Israel’s President Herzog and the New Israel Fund that wove together several threads of NIF’s history. Long-time supporters of our work know that NIF and...
