by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 29, 2020 | News
More than 20 Knesset members and 60 Israeli civil society organizations including New Israel Fund have called on Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to overturn Finance Minister Israel Katz’s decision to freeze assistance to NGOs helping the country’s most needy. Katz...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 29, 2020 | News
NIFC project partner Tag Meir has launched a petition for the publication of the findings of the investigation into the killing of Eyad Hallaq. In May, Hallaq an unarmed autistic Palestinian man, was shot dead by the Israel Police as he walked to an education center...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 24, 2020 | News, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Religious Freedom
The Aguda – Israel’s LGBT Task Force has set up a hotline in Arabic to serve Palestinian citizens of Israel. The hotline, which is receiving financial support from the New Israel Fund global network, will provide both emotional assistance and routine information on...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 22, 2020 | News, Social and Economic Justice
Israel’s 12,000 social workers, 90% of whom are women, are entering the 15th day of their strike (as of July 20) to demand fundamental changes to the impossible situation in which social workers find themselves. A social worker in Israel is in charge of an average of...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 22, 2020 | News
Ahead of the 2020/2021 soccer season, New Israel Fund’s Team for Social Responsibility, a project to get well-known soccer players to work together to eradicate racism and violence, has produced new video clips in which the players speak out against racism, sexism,...
