by Zoe Bernard | Apr 18, 2022 | News, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Over the course of one week in March, 11 Israeli citizens were murdered by three Palestinian assailants, two of them Israeli citizens. A fourth attack, in Tel Aviv on April 7, took three more lives. Shatil, NIFC project partners, and organizations funded by the NIF...
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...