by Hannah Cohen | Dec 27, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Photo credit: Noam Amir, Shatil Stock On December 13th, a group of Israeli organizations—many of them NIF grantees—published a major letter to President Biden urging him to insist that the Israeli military change its strategy to avoid further civilian deaths and the...
by Hannah Cohen | Dec 27, 2023 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Immediately after learning about Hamas’s terror attack on October 7th, Shir Nosatzki, co-founder and director of Have You Seen The Horizon Lately and Hanan Alsana, a lawyer with Itach-Maaki, knew they would have to act. They understood quickly that there would be...
by Hannah Cohen | Dec 12, 2023 | Gender Equality
A new report by NIF partner Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI) uses evidence gathered to confirm that sexual violence was used as a weapon of war by Hamas and calls to center the physical and emotional needs of the victims of the violence. The report is based...
by Hannah Cohen | Dec 8, 2023 | Palestinian Citizens of Israel
On the morning of October 7, the Alqur’an family awoke to the deafening shrieks of rockets hurtling toward their small desert community. After the rockets’ impact, several family members approached the explosion site to check for casualties. Shortly afterwards, a...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 30, 2023 | New Initiatives for Democracy
Israel has changed, we have changed, reality has changed. As Naomi Chazan, former president of NIF’s international board, has said, “there won’t be a single day when we declare that we’re ‘after’ [October 7th]—in fact, we’re already living it”. This idea—that we...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 29, 2023 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Photo credit: Gili Getz By Libby Lenkinski, NIF US VP of Public Engagement November 17, 2023 Let me tell you about the week I had. From the moment our friends, the co-directors of Standing Together (עומדים ביחד – نقف معًا) Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green, landed here in...
