by Hannah Cohen | Mar 31, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights, News
Shortly after Benjamin Netanyahu’s government took power, NIFC’s flagship partner the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) petitioned to overturn some of the new, expanded powers that Netanyahu had granted Itamar Ben Gvir in his role as National...
by Hannah Cohen | Mar 23, 2023 | Gender Equality
Photo credit: Gilad Kavalertchik Earlier this month, Canadian ambassador to Israel Lisa Stadelbauer acted as host for Shatil’s graduation of their women NGO leaders project. Shatil is the capacity-building arm of the New Israel Fund in Israel. This unique Shatil...
by Hannah Cohen | Mar 23, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Credit: Mati Milstein “Now in Huwara I held in my hand, the remains of stun grenades and gas cannisters that the IDF threw into a house that rioters had burned,” wrote NIF Associate Director Resources Development Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg on Wednesday, as...
by Hannah Cohen | Mar 23, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Following an investigation by NIFC project partner FakeReporter, Twitter has removed a network of fake accounts that were working to support the government’s legislative blitz to gut the judiciary. A malicious social...
by Hannah Cohen | Feb 28, 2023 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Courtesy of Shatil staff Mass expulsions from unrecognized villages, Muslims barred from Al-Aqsa Mosque, and free reign given to Jewish militant vigilantes. These are some of the worst-case scenarios that shared society NGO CEOs envisioned in a Shatil-guided...
by Hannah Cohen | Jan 27, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Human Rights Groups Petition High Court to Halt Ben-Gvir’s Police Reforms NIFC flagship partner the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) as well as the Public Committee Against...