by Hannah Cohen | Aug 24, 2021 | Issue Areas, News, Social and Economic Justice
This week the Knesset passed it’s first national budget in two years alongside a new bill that could potentially usher in many economic changes without oversight. NIFC project partner the Berl Katznelson Foundation has sent an open letter to Knesset Speaker Mickey...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 24, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights, Issue Areas, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Last week, in an unprecedented visit, Israel’s new Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz travelled to our project partner Physicians for Human Rights Israel’s (PHRI) clinic for asylum seekers in Jaffa. This was the first time that a sitting Minister of Health had...
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 | Issue Areas, News, Social and Economic Justice
A few days ago, our flagship partner, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), submitted a petition to the Tel Aviv-Yafo Administrative Court demanding an end to the policy and practice of racial segregation in Tel Aviv-Yafo’s schools. Nearly 70 years...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 11, 2021 | Issue Areas, NIF, Social and Economic Justice
After several years without an approved Knesset budget, Israel has developed a chronic shortage of public housing. Disabled, elderly and immigrant residents are routinely placed in absurdly long waitlists with no end in sight. An organization supported by the NIF...
