by Lauren Zilberman | Oct 31, 2025 | Featured, Human and Civil Rights, News, NIF, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
The family of Canadian-Israeli Vivian Silver z”l, a life-long peace activist killed on October 7, has announced the winners of the second annual Vivian Silver Impact Award, created in her honor and supported by NIFC. The award honours two women–one Arab and one...
by Fram Dinshaw | Jul 31, 2025 | Human and Civil Rights, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO It feels like things are getting darker and darker. Over the past almost-two years the horrors of October 7th have been compounded by the horrors of the suffering of Gaza. The images that we see every day from Gaza are the...
by Fram Dinshaw | Jul 15, 2025 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
By Libby Lenkinski Back in March, an extraordinary film won an Oscar. No Other Land tells a story of what it’s like to live deep inside of Israel’s military occupation—from the perspective of the Palestinians of Masafer Yatta whose homes and histories are under...
by Hannah Blazer | Nov 27, 2024 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Vivian Silver z”l was a lifelong peace activist, CEO of the Negev Institute for Peace and Development Strategies, founder of the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment, and Cooperation, and an active NIF board member. A friend to many in our community, she was a...
by Hannah Blazer | Oct 28, 2024 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
On October 9 2024, hundreds of Arabs and Jews from throughout Israel — including Jewish gap-year participants and young Bedouin — poured out of buses in front of Hebrew Union College. They were attending the “A Day of Pain; A Day of Hope,” event in which Shatil...
by Hannah Blazer | May 2, 2024 | New Initiatives for Democracy, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Following a highly successful November trip to the United States, NIF grantee Standing Together just completed a second tour of North America. They spoke to thousands of people at New Israel Fund events in Toronto, Vancouver, the Bay Area, New York, and Los Angeles....
