by Hannah Cohen | Dec 22, 2023 | News
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO I am writing to you from Kibbutz Tzuba, west of Jerusalem, where I’ve just celebrated the seventh night of Chanukah with three generations of my cousins—a big, beautiful family that has always been the heart of my Israel....
by Hannah Cohen | Dec 12, 2023 | Gender Equality
A new report by NIF partner Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI) uses evidence gathered to confirm that sexual violence was used as a weapon of war by Hamas and calls to center the physical and emotional needs of the victims of the violence. The report is based...
by Hannah Cohen | Dec 8, 2023 | Palestinian Citizens of Israel
On the morning of October 7, the Alqur’an family awoke to the deafening shrieks of rockets hurtling toward their small desert community. After the rockets’ impact, several family members approached the explosion site to check for casualties. Shortly afterwards, a...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 30, 2023 | News
By Ben Murane, Executive Director Israel has changed, we have changed, reality has changed. There has been a lot of anticipation about “the day after” the war, though nobody can say precisely when that day will be. Fearful Israelis displaced from their homes near Gaza...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 30, 2023 | New Initiatives for Democracy
Israel has changed, we have changed, reality has changed. As Naomi Chazan, former president of NIF’s international board, has said, “there won’t be a single day when we declare that we’re ‘after’ [October 7th]—in fact, we’re already living it”. This idea—that we...