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,...
by Hannah Cohen | Sep 29, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights, NIF
(September 29, 2021) In response to the news that Jewish settlers carried out violent attacks against Palestinians and their villages in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank, New Israel Fund in the US released the following statement: These acts of violence are...
by Hannah Cohen | Sep 9, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
NIFC project partner Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) issued a new report exposing the striking disparities between the Israeli and Palestinian health systems in the era of COVID-19. The report said that Israel has shirked its responsibilities in the Occupied...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 24, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights, Issue Areas, NIF, Social and Economic Justice
This August, Israel’s government approved an annual budget for the first time since 2018. The budget must now make its way through Knesset committees and be passed into law by November 4, or the new government will fall. This constitutes a critical time for Israel’s...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 24, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights, Issue Areas, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Last week, in an unprecedented visit, Israel’s new Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz travelled to our project partner Physicians for Human Rights Israel’s (PHRI) clinic for asylum seekers in Jaffa. This was the first time that a sitting Minister of Health had...
