by Hannah Blazer | Oct 30, 2024 | NIF
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO Across Israel today, there is a great struggle over the meaning of the horrifying Hamas attack of Oct. 7th, 2023. There are two powerful narrative visions at work. One of these is the vision of Israel’s minister for national...
by Hannah Blazer | Oct 11, 2024 | NIF
By Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, NIF international board member On October 7 2023, I returned home at 10 PM after 15 tiring and exhausting hours of work in the emergency room of Soroka Hospital, in Israel’s southern city of Be’er Sheva. As I entered the door, one thought...
by Ben | Aug 12, 2024 | News, NIF
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF international CEO We are living through a moment of uncertainty unlike any other in recent memory. We have been holding our breath since July 31, when an explosion in Tehran, widely attributed to Israel, killed Hamas’s political chief Ismail...
by Hannah Blazer | Jul 30, 2024 | NIF
By Mickey Gitzin, NIF’s Director in Israel Nearly nine months into the war here in Israel, the words “together, we will win” still appear on street signs, supermarket receipts and on the sides of buses. This so-called unity slogan, which warmed hearts in October...
by Hannah Blazer | Jun 7, 2024 | NIF
By Hannah Bender, ’23-’24 NIF Froman Social Change Rabbinical Fellow Within the Jewish calendar we are nearing the end of the Omer. Traditionally, one who observes this verbally counts each day of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, marking the time between our...
by Hannah Blazer | Jun 7, 2024 | News, NIF
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO There have always been multiple visions of what Israel is and can be. Today, two of the most prominent are in sharp contrast. On one side are those who seek an ethno-nationalist state — a place where Jews are first order...
