by Hannah Cohen | Aug 24, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights, Issue Areas, News, NIF, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
The High Court of Justice has accepted a petition by NIFC project partner Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and two organization supported by the NIF global network Tebeka – Advocacy for Equality & Justice for Ethiopian Israelis and the Association of...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 24, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights, Issue Areas, News, NIF, Social and Economic Justice, Uncategorized
Like in so many places around the world, Israel is shutting down once again to protect its people from COVID-19. The Delta variant of the virus has reared its ugly head just when we all thought things might be headed back towards normal. In Israel, as in the U.S., the...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 11, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
Israel’s Supreme Court has instructed the government to clarify why it has refused to grant work permits to people who are LGBTQ-identified Palestinians seeking political asylum in Israel. The order comes in response to a petition by NIFC project partnerPhysicians for...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 6, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
By Daniel Sokatch, International CEO of the New Israel Fund The precarity of life for Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah is hard to imagine. These are people, some of whom have spent their entire lives, fighting just to stay...
by Hannah Cohen | Jul 26, 2021 | Gender Equality, Human and Civil Rights, Religious Freedom
Earlier this month, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled the surrogacy ban on same-sex couples and single men unconstitutional and ordered the state to lift it within six months. The court rejected the government’s claim that passing a law allowing surrogacy for same-sex...
by Hannah Cohen | Jul 22, 2021 | Action Alert, Human and Civil Rights, New Generations, News
On July 22, 2021, young leaders from NIFC, JSpaceCanada, and Canadian Friends of Peace Now sent a letter to the Canadian government and the heads of all the major political parties urging them to speak out strongly against the forced expulsions and demolition of homes...
