by Fram Dinshaw | Sep 26, 2025 | New Generations, News
We are pleased to welcome our 2025-2026 cohort of Naomi Chazan Fellows! The Naomi Chazan Fellowship is a year-long global program that begins with a subsidized, ten-day study tour in Israel-Palestine with two dozen changemakers in their 20s and 30s from Canada, the...
by Fram Dinshaw | Jul 30, 2025 | New Generations
This month, we bid a fond farewell to our 2024-2025 Naomi Chazan Fellows Syvanne Avitzur, Carli Fink, Jacob Kates Rose, and Michael Morgenthau. The Fellows began their year last July with a trip to Israel and the Occupied Territories, where they were among the two...
by Fram Dinshaw | Jun 26, 2025 | New Generations
The 2025-26 Naomi Chazan Fellowship deadline has been extended to June 30th. Learn more and apply here. The Fellowship is a one-year program for young progressive Canadian Jewish leaders. The year kicks off with a subsidized trip to Israel and the occupied...
by Hannah Blazer | Aug 29, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights, New Generations
Naomi Chazan Fellows and staff with former NIF President Prof. Naomi Chazan. My name is Syvanne Avitzur, and I am a 2024 Naomi Chazan Fellow, a New Generations Leadership Council Member, and a newly appointed board member of the New Israel Fund of Canada. This summer,...
by Hannah Blazer | Jul 31, 2024 | New Generations, News
Our 2024 Naomi Chazan fellows have just returned from an eight-day trip to Israel-Palestine, where they were able to meet with a wide variety of NIF partner organizations and learn about the crucial work they’re doing. From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and from...
by Ben | Jun 28, 2024 | New Generations
Syvanne Avitzur is an Israeli-born Canadian, an NIFC New Generations Leadership Council Member, and a former volunteer with NIF in Jerusalem who cares deeply about NIF’s mission. She is working towards her M.A. in Public and International Affairs at the University of...
