by Zoe Bernard | Aug 18, 2022 | News, NIF
Responding to the news that the Israeli military raided the offices of six Palestinian human rights organizations and posted closure orders, the New Israel Fund of Canada released the following statement: “The Israeli government’s decision to raid and shutter the...
by Zoe Bernard | Aug 15, 2022 | News, NIF
NIF’s action-arm, Shatil, teamed up with NIF globally funded, National Committee for Heads of Arab Local Authorities (NCHALA) to help Palestinian citizens of Israel who run NGOs sharpen their advocacy skills. What they couldn’t have predicted was the incredible...
by Zoe Bernard | Aug 15, 2022 | News, Social and Economic Justice
Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip over the past 15 years has had disastrous effects on the lives and health of its Palestinian residents, NIFC project partner Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) reports. In Gaza, nearly every single aspect of health care...
by Zoe Bernard | Jul 5, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
By: Rabbi Noa Sattath I have been attending Jerusalem Pride Marches for two decades. For years, as director of the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance and the Reform Movement’s Israel Religious Action Center, my work was directly involved in the fight for...
by Zoe Bernard | Jun 24, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights, News
NIF globally funded, The Aguda – Israel’s LGBT Task Force, published its annual Pride Index recently, revealing a record number of Pride events across 52 Israeli municipalities. While there are still no majority Arab or Ultra-Orthodox cities on the list, the Index...
