by Hannah Cohen | Dec 17, 2021 | Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Israel’s “government of change” presents a unique opportunity for Palestinian-Israeli social change organizations to advance progressive policies related to health, land, education, personal security, and much more. But, as NIFC project partner Shatil’s own research...
by Hannah Cohen | Dec 17, 2021 | Religious Freedom
The Jerusalem District Court has ordered the Jerusalem Municipality to hire inspectors to handle widespread incidents of ultra-Orthodox Jews defacing billboards depicting images of women. Judge Shirley Renner also ordered the municipality to meet with the local police...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 25, 2021 | Palestinian Citizens of Israel
In Jerusalem, a local subsidiary of an American software design company is working to improve diversity in its 500-person workspace thanks to Shatil. As part of Shatil’s “Diversity in the Workplace” project, the company is working to increase the diversity of staff...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 25, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
A new report by NIFC project partner B’Tselem: The Israel Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories documents how Israeli settlers have taken over large sections of land in the West Bank with the assistance of the IDF. The report entitled “State...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 5, 2021 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
A new website called The Gizanomat (based on the Hebrew word for racism) launched this week as a tool for citizen reporting and documenting racism. The project was launched by NIFC’s flagship project partner Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), as well...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 5, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
A new report published by NIFC project partner Physicians for Human Rights (PHRI), as well as Kav LaOved – Workers Hotline reveals that Israel has been violating the rights of some 22,000 people who migrated from Thailand to Israel and work in the agricultural sector....
