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Marking Successes and Setbacks Through the Annual “Pride Index”

Marking Successes and Setbacks Through the Annual “Pride Index”

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...
Campaigning for Arab Israeli LGBTQ Visibility

Campaigning for Arab Israeli LGBTQ Visibility

by Zoe Bernard | Jun 24, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights, News

To mark Pride Month in Israel, the Arab LGBTQ organization, Beit el-Meem has launched the first-ever campaign for LGBTQ rights in Arab towns around Israel including in Nazareth, Iksal, Kafr Kanna, and Reineh. Beit el-Meem was established earlier this year following an...
A Year of Breakthroughs: Pro-LGBTQ Successes within Israel’s Government Ministries

A Year of Breakthroughs: Pro-LGBTQ Successes within Israel’s Government Ministries

by Zoe Bernard | Jun 22, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights, News

In the midst of Israel’s Pride Month, NIF conducted an interview with Or Keshet, a 38-year-old lawyer who for the past three years has served as Director of Government Relations for The Aguda — Israel’s LGBT Task Force, an organization funded by the NIF global...
Fighting Expulsions in the South Hebron Hills

Fighting Expulsions in the South Hebron Hills

by Zoe Bernard | May 19, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights, News

After a decades-long legal battle that began in the 1980s, Israel’s Supreme Court has approved the eviction of more than 1,000 Palestinians from eight villages in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank. The region of the West Bank, which the Israeli army refers to as...
Defending Environmental and Health Justice in Tel Aviv

Defending Environmental and Health Justice in Tel Aviv

by Zoe Bernard | May 19, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights, News

NIFC project partner Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has petitioned the Tel Aviv District Court to compel the city to vacate the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station by 2023. Local movements to remove the station have been ongoing for decades, with the building...
Preventing East Jerusalem Home Demolitions

Preventing East Jerusalem Home Demolitions

by Zoe Bernard | Apr 18, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights, News

At the end of March, Israel’s Supreme Court held a hearing on the pending demolition of 38 homes in Al-Walaja, a Palestinian village in East Jerusalem. The hearing lasted approximately five minutes, during which the judges decided to postpone the proceedings for seven...
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