New Initiatives for Democracy
Strengthening New Ideas and Leadership
NIFC works to restore Israel’s wounded democracy and foster a renewal of pro-democracy ideas, leadership, and institutions.
Over the past decade, attacks have increased by religious and public leaders against the media, the judiciary, human rights organizations, minorities, and even the very notion of equality. Our focuses in this area are diverse, but represent the most cutting-edge initiatives to cultivate new civil society leadership, develop new ideas, build new coalitions, and promote new models of change.
Examples of recently-funded projects include the Alliance for Israel’s Future’s leadership program for young progressives and Zazim’s online campaigns for fair and equal government responses to COVID-19.
Mitvim - The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies
Researching Post-Conflict Strategies and Regional Expertise
Mitvim–The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies is a foreign policy think tank established in 2011 with the mission to promote a progressive paradigm shift Israel’s foreign policy. Mitvim provides answers to resolving the underlying conflict with new regional allies as Israelis seek alternatives to the catastrophic failures of their government’s security and military policies on October 7th. In 2024, NIFC’s project will conduct research and analyses on peace and security after the October 7th attack.
Campaigning to Empower Israel’s Liberal Centre
Over the last few weeks, NIF grantee Have You Seen the Horizon Lately has plastered Israel’s major traffic arteries with huge billboards reminding Israelis of something that, in the current political climate, they do not always feel: That they have a choice. These...
Israel’s Left Is Stronger Than We Think
By Mickey Gitzin, NIF's Director in Israel Something has changed in Israel’s public discourse over the summer months. Something disturbing, evoking anxiety. The right, like the entire country, was rattled after October 7, but it appears that Benjamin Netanyahu has...
We Have a Vision for the Day After
By Talia Sasson, Past NIF Board President There is a widespread sense in Israel that our Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has no plan for “the day after,” that is, the day that comes after the war in Gaza stops. The American government, before Israel invaded Gaza,...
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