by nifc-phil-mike | Apr 30, 2020 | News
By Mickey Gitzin, Director of the New Israel Fund in Israel Five Takeaways from the Netanyahu-Gantz Coalition Agreement On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met to sign a coalition agreement...
by nifc-phil-mike | Apr 29, 2020 | News
By Alice Shalvi, NIF International Board Member and a founder of Israel’s women’s movement Nobody in Israel will ever forget the country’s 72nd birthday. 2020 will go down in history as the “year of the coronavirus.” In Israel, the country’s population is...
by nifc-phil-mike | Apr 24, 2020 | News, NIF
By Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund Finally, 484 days and three elections after the Israel’s last elected government was dissolved, a deal was struck earlier this week between Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Blue and White party Chairman Benny Gantz....
by nifc-phil-mike | Apr 24, 2020 | News
A petition by NIFC project partner Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), as well as Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights, has become the first-ever Supreme Court hearing to be broadcast live in Israel. Their petition opposes measures by the...
by nifc-phil-mike | Apr 24, 2020 | News, Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Mahmood Nassar is the new director of the Campaign to Combat Violence and Crime in Arab Society. A father of five, Nassar grew up the oldest of five brothers in the northern village of Tur’an, where his father, a banker, served as mayor. His was raised in a home that...
