by Hannah Cohen | Feb 22, 2022 | NIF
Mazal Bisawer, NIF Grants Officer, Shared Society & Gender Equality Mazal Bisawer doesn’t remember a time when she didn’t know what racism was. Growing up in Kiryat Gat in the 90s, other children called her hurtful names. “For Ethiopian Israeli kids, hearing...
by Hannah Cohen | Sep 29, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights, NIF
(September 29, 2021) In response to the news that Jewish settlers carried out violent attacks against Palestinians and their villages in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank, New Israel Fund in the US released the following statement: These acts of violence are...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 24, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights, Issue Areas, NIF, Social and Economic Justice
This August, Israel’s government approved an annual budget for the first time since 2018. The budget must now make its way through Knesset committees and be passed into law by November 4, or the new government will fall. This constitutes a critical time for Israel’s...
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 24, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights, Issue Areas, News, NIF, Social and Economic Justice, Uncategorized
Like in so many places around the world, Israel is shutting down once again to protect its people from COVID-19. The Delta variant of the virus has reared its ugly head just when we all thought things might be headed back towards normal. In Israel, as in the U.S., the...
by Hannah Cohen | Aug 11, 2021 | Issue Areas, NIF, Social and Economic Justice
After several years without an approved Knesset budget, Israel has developed a chronic shortage of public housing. Disabled, elderly and immigrant residents are routinely placed in absurdly long waitlists with no end in sight. An organization supported by the NIF...
