by Hannah Cohen | Dec 17, 2021 | Gender Equality, Human and Civil Rights
Amid Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz’s efforts to reform Israel’s outdated abortion policies, NIFC project partner Physicians for Human Rights-Israel has published a position paper on the issue, entitled Access to Terminating Pregnancy: Abortion and Equality....
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 25, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
A new report by NIFC project partner B’Tselem: The Israel Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories documents how Israeli settlers have taken over large sections of land in the West Bank with the assistance of the IDF. The report entitled “State...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 5, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
A new report published by NIFC project partner Physicians for Human Rights (PHRI), as well as Kav LaOved – Workers Hotline reveals that Israel has been violating the rights of some 22,000 people who migrated from Thailand to Israel and work in the agricultural sector....
by Hannah Cohen | Oct 21, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee convened last week to discuss growing violence against Palestinians by Jewish extremists in the West Bank. However, NIFC project partner Breaking the SIlence, as well as Yesh Din: Volunteers for Human Rights, who were...
by Zoe Bernard | Oct 20, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
To raise awareness of Israeli government plans to expel 51 members of Dimona’s Hebrew Israelite community, NIF has produced a video clip (see below) of the community’s prodigious musical talent. Their appeal against the expulsion was recently dismissed by Israel’s...
by Hannah Cohen | Oct 12, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
Hundreds of Israelis came to the South Hebron Hills last weekend to protest settler violence and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian villagers in the region. The rally was held at the Palestinian village of Mafkara where masked settlers rampaged on Simchat Torah,...
