by Hannah Blazer | Dec 6, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO Moshe Yaalon, who served as the IDF Chief of Staff during the second intifada, and as Prime Minister Netanyahu’s defense minister during the 2014 Gaza war, is no leftist, and certainly no friend of the Palestinians. But last...
by Hannah Blazer | Dec 6, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Shatil Stock After more than a year, and with 101 Israelis still held captive, the war in Gaza continues. NIF grantees and NIFC project partners are among the few who are working to ensure that inhumane practices of the IDF are made public....
by Hannah Blazer | Dec 2, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
On the same night that Israeli and international media zeroed in on the violent attacks in Amsterdam against Jewish Israeli soccer fans, extremist Jewish Israeli settlers were violently attacking Palestinians more than 2,500 miles away. NIF grantees and NIFC project...
by Hannah Blazer | Sep 30, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
With the ongoing, devastating war in Gaza and the threat of all-out war with Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border, many in the diaspora and Israel have not been focused on the dramatic rise in settler violence. According to NIFC project partner Yesh Din, 2023 was...
by Hannah Blazer | Aug 29, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights, New Generations
Naomi Chazan Fellows and staff with former NIF President Prof. Naomi Chazan. My name is Syvanne Avitzur, and I am a 2024 Naomi Chazan Fellow, a New Generations Leadership Council Member, and a newly appointed board member of the New Israel Fund of Canada. This summer,...
by Hannah Blazer | Aug 27, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
CNN published a major story in May that brought to light the deplorable conditions found in a military prison in southern Israel. The prison, called Sde Teiman, was being used to hold detainees from Gaza. The story was horrific: Over 1,000 detainees were being held in...
