by Hannah Cohen | Dec 22, 2021 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
On December 14th, a group of New Generations (20s and 30s) donors met online for a Giving Circle — a process in which a group decides together which NIFC project partner will receive its pooled donations. The group, led by the New Generations Leadership Council,...
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 | Sep 9, 2021 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
A group of teachers who make up the Education for Human Rights Forum of Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), NIFC’s flagship project partner, wrote a strongly worded letter to Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton after multiple parents at their local...
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 11, 2021 | Issue Areas, NIF, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Fighting inequality between Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel is a key NIFC priority, and an issue Shatil has been tackling since its founding. The significance of this problem was thrown into stark relief during April through May of this year, when...
