by Hannah Cohen | Jun 30, 2023 | New Initiatives for Democracy
For the twenty-fourth week in a row, Israelis have been spending their Saturday nights protesting. For eight months, social change organizations have been working on overdrive to protect the rights of persecuted groups and combat the strategic dismantling of...
by Hannah Cohen | Jun 12, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Photo courtesy of Jerusalem Open House This June Israelis will be staging more LGBTQ+ Pride events than ever before. The month began last Thursday with 30,000 people marching through Jerusalem in the annual Pride Parade. Jerusalem Open House Chairman Jonathan Valfer...
by Hannah Cohen | Jun 12, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO When the first rally for gay rights was held in Tel Aviv in 1979, Israeli law still prohibited sodomy. And when, in 1989, NIF helped a gay El Al employee successfully file a lawsuit to challenge the company’s discrimination...
by Hannah Cohen | Jun 10, 2023 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Photo courtesy of Jerusalem Facebook page Three years ago, NIFC project partner the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) of the Reform Movement in Israel brought a huge class action lawsuit against the Gett Taxi app. The app had developed a service for Jerusalemites...
by Hannah Cohen | Jun 10, 2023 | Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Photo courtesy of Israel Police Facebook The National Committee of Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel has set up a tent in Jerusalem outside of the Prime Minister’s Office to protest rising crime in the Arab sector and police inaction to combat the growing...
by Hannah Cohen | May 30, 2023 | New Generations, News, Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Image: Rawabit program participants meet in 2022 On May 4th, a group of New Generations (20s and 30s) donors met both online and in-person for a Giving Circle — a process in which a group decides together which NIFC project partner will receive its pooled donations....
