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When Things Are Hard, We Stay Strong
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO It’s too awful. The Bibas kids, Ariel and Kfir. The elderly Oded Lifshitz. The confusion around Shiri Bibas’ body. Every one of us wanted to hope against hope that they were all, one day, going to come home alive. That Hamas...
This Week’s Emotional Rollercoaster
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO January 24, 2025 This past week has been an emotional rollercoaster. I have felt incredible relief and joy watching daughters united with their families in Israel. And I’ve felt relief for the people of Gaza as the fighting...
Fighting to Bring Them All Home
Since October 7th, NIF has followed the lead of those families whose loved ones are held captive in Gaza. We have seen it as our role, as the engine of Israeli civil society, to support them. That’s what we’ve been doing for the last fifteen months. The Hostages and...
Helping Facilitate Humanitarian Aid in Gaza
One of the key provisions of the ceasefire deal which went into effect last week is that more aid will flow into Gaza. In the first two weeks or so of January, just 614 trucks entered the Strip. Now that number enters nearly every day. The aid trucks bring much-needed...
Exposing How the Violence in the West Bank and Gaza is Interconnected
Guns have finally fallen silent in Gaza. But throughout the West Bank, settlers and the military have brought those guns to Palestinian villages throughout Area C. Over the few days after the ceasefire went into effect, gangs of settlers have attacked a number of...
Responding to Right-Wing Attacks through Power-Building
In September, a 12-year-old schoolgirl in Be’er Sheva expressed solidarity with Gazan children in her classroom. Her classmates harassed and physically attacked her, with the explicit encouragement of right-wing officials and influencers. Yet it was the schoolgirl who...
Tracking Anti-Democratic Legislation
The Knesset has been in session for more than two months. And the Netanyahu government is plowing ahead with its anti-democratic agenda. Netanyahu and his ministers have already developed a raft of legislation that actively eats away at the core of Israel’s democracy....
Shrinking Ben-Gvir’s Powers Over the Police
Earlier this month, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and the Adalah Center won a victory for democracy. Itamar Ben-Gvir, as a part of his coalition agreement to join Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government, had been promised significant and expanded...
Come work with us! NIFC is hiring a Communications Coordinator
About the New Israel Fund of Canada The New Israel Fund of Canada (NIFC) advances and defends democracy and equality in Israel. Since 1986, NIFC has helped contribute over $300 million to more than 900 organizations in Israel that fight for socio-economic equality,...
NIF International CEO: “A critical first step. Now let’s bring them all home and end this damn war.”
Responding to the news that Israel and Hamas have reached a partial hostage deal and temporary ceasefire, NIF International CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement: After months of anguish, some of the hostages will return home to their families and the...
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