by Hannah Blazer | Nov 12, 2024 | New Initiatives for Democracy
Over the last few weeks, NIF grantee Have You Seen the Horizon Lately has plastered Israel’s major traffic arteries with huge billboards reminding Israelis of something that, in the current political climate, they do not always feel: That they have a choice. These...
by Hannah Blazer | Oct 28, 2024 | Palestinian Citizens of Israel
On October 7, 2024, Intisar Hijazi, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and school counselor in Nazareth, was accused of “incitement to terrorism” for reposting a TikTok video of herself dancing from one year ago. Just hours after posting the video, she was arrested. A...
by Hannah Blazer | Oct 28, 2024 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
On October 9 2024, hundreds of Arabs and Jews from throughout Israel — including Jewish gap-year participants and young Bedouin — poured out of buses in front of Hebrew Union College. They were attending the “A Day of Pain; A Day of Hope,” event in which Shatil...
by Hannah Blazer | Sep 30, 2024 | New Initiatives for Democracy
By Mickey Gitzin, NIF’s Director in Israel Something has changed in Israel’s public discourse over the summer months. Something disturbing, evoking anxiety. The right, like the entire country, was rattled after October 7, but it appears that Benjamin Netanyahu...
by Hannah Blazer | Sep 30, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
With the ongoing, devastating war in Gaza and the threat of all-out war with Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border, many in the diaspora and Israel have not been focused on the dramatic rise in settler violence. According to NIFC project partner Yesh Din, 2023 was...
by Hannah Blazer | Sep 30, 2024 | Gender Equality
The consecutive crises of the past year and a half have made one thing clear: when women are absent from leadership positions, it leads to long-lasting, dramatic consequences. The ongoing war erupted against the backdrop of Israel’s democratic crisis, exacerbating the...
