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...
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...
by Hannah Cohen | Feb 22, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
Privacy Israel, an organization funded by the NIF global network, and Israel Internet Association recently released a comprehensive study on Israeli public opinion around the right to privacy and protection from invasive practices by various government and commercial...
by Hannah Cohen | Feb 22, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
More than 400 activists took part in a tree-planting event in the Palestinian village of Burin near Nablus in the West Bank earlier this month to demonstrate solidarity with local Palestinians and human rights activists. The event was organized by Rabbis for Human...
by Hannah Cohen | Jan 27, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
On January 20th, 2022, Israel’s High Court ruled that people being threatened to have their power cut by the Electricity Authority must have the option to show that they are suffering financial or health problems that justify their continued access to electric...
by Hannah Cohen | Jan 27, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
A coalition of social change organizations, most of them from the NIF family, including NIF’s action arm, Shatil, have called on the Israeli government and the Jewish National Fund (JNF) to halt the “provocative and damaging” tree planting in the Negev. The letter...
