Sari Bashi's Unique Lens on the Occupation with Sari Bashi Human rights lawyer, activist, mother, Jewish-Israeli married to a Palestinian Event by Canadian Friends of Peace Now January 16, 2022 @ 1:00 pm ET Register here What is it like to be a Jewish-Israeli advocate for justice while partnered to a Palestinian, raising a mixed Jewish-Palestinian family […]
Join us each Wednesday in February as Adi Tufik, NIF's Head of Donor Relations in Israel, takes us behind the scenes to dive into the issues people across Israel and the occupied territories face. From Bedouin towns in the Negev to the occupied Jordan Valley, from rapidly changing Jaffa to the Musrara neighbourhood of Jerusalem, […]
Organized by Canadian Friends of Peace Now. Webinar with Avner Gvaryahu, Breaking the Silence, and Dana Mills, Peace Now. Register here Settlers have been attacking Palestinians on the West Bank for years. But something has changed since the time when “Price Tag” youths from illegal outposts committed rogue violence. The number of violent incidents by Jewish […]
Film at the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the New Israel Fund of Canada. Watch online from March 3-March 13 *only available in British Columbia Click here for tickets Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel is a force of nature. Confident and resilient, she is a magnet for the toughest cases imaginable. Tsemel is […]
1948: a year celebrated by some as Israel’s independence and denounced by others as a catastrophe that spelled the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians. What happened in '48? What events stoked the tensions that led to the Arab-Israeli War? What role did the British and Ottoman empires, the Balfour Declaration and two world wars play in […]
Join Hashomer Hatzair and the New Israel Fund on Sunday, April 3rd, at 1 PM EST. to hear Hashomer Hatzair youth leader Jenya Brizkho speak about her experience fleeing Ukraine and update us on the current situation of her community. Jenya is the leader of the Hashomer Hatzair ken in Kharkiv, and she has been […]
Study with and celebrate with Rabbi Ayelet S. Cohen and Rabbi Ephraim Pelcovits in this exploratory text study of the Mishnah. Register here.
74 years after the signing of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, NIFC invites you to celebrate the social justice values enshrined in that document -- and to reaffirm our commitment to achieve them in full. Join us on May 2nd as we explore the progress that activists in Israel have made on important issues. We’ll hear […]
Six days of war in 1967 between Israel and its neighbours—called variously the June War, Six-Day War, and Naksa—had far-reaching consequences for Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the broader Middle East. Israel’s borders expanded to include East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights, territory it occupies to this day. And the settlements, […]
Last week, the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled that allows the Israeli military to legally evict over 1,000 Palestinians from their homes. Join us for an emergency briefing on the status of Masafer Yatta with NIF Media & Policy Director Elisheva Goldberg, ACRI's Roni Pelli, one of the lawyers who litigated the Masafer Yatta […]
Join us on Wednesday, May 25 at 10am Pacific/12pm Central/1pm ET for the first session in a two-part series exploring the opportunities and challenges that the current government has brought Israeli civil society over the last year. The first session will focus on the opportunities created by the coalition. With center-left and left-wing parties holding […]
Join us on Wednesday, June 15 at 10am Pacific/12pm Central/1pm ET for the second session in a two-part series exploring the opportunities and challenges that Israel's current government has created for civil society organizations over the last year. In this second session, we'll be shifting our focus to the challenges we have faced over the […]
