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Israel’s Left Is Stronger Than We Think

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...

Blocking Settler Violence With “Protective Presence”

Blocking Settler Violence With “Protective Presence”

With the ongoing, devastating war in Gaza and the threat of all-out war with Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border, many in the diaspora and Israel have not been focused on the dramatic rise in settler violence. According to NIFC project partner Yesh Din, 2023 was...

Partnering with Haaretz for a Conference on Peace & Security

Partnering with Haaretz for a Conference on Peace & Security

On Monday, September 16, the New Israel Fund held a conference on the intersection of security and politics in partnership with Israel’s newspaper of record, Haaretz, and the political-security joint program run by the Berel Katznelson Foundation and the Mitvim...

Advancing Gender Equity in Israel via Coalition Building

Advancing Gender Equity in Israel via Coalition Building

The consecutive crises of the past year and a half have made one thing clear: when women are absent from leadership positions, it leads to long-lasting, dramatic consequences. The ongoing war erupted against the backdrop of Israel’s democratic crisis, exacerbating the...

Why 18 Jewish clergy like me joined NIFC

Why 18 Jewish clergy like me joined NIFC

By Cantor Cheryl Wunch It’s been a difficult year to be Jewish in Canada. It’s been difficult for observant Jews, secular Jews, Jewish students, and those of us who consider ourselves to be "professional Jews." Jewish clergy like me – rabbis, cantors, and other...

Advocating for More Humane Incarceration

Advocating for More Humane Incarceration

CNN published a major story in May that brought to light the deplorable conditions found in a military prison in southern Israel. The prison, called Sde Teiman, was being used to hold detainees from Gaza. The story was horrific: Over 1,000 detainees were being held in...

Defending Palestinian Property Rights in the West Bank

Defending Palestinian Property Rights in the West Bank

Photo credit: Eyal Warshavsky There are so many ways that Palestinian lives and rights are challenged in Area C, the 60% of the West Bank where nearly all settlements sit and some 100,000 Palestinians live. Over the past month, settler violence in these communities...

Monitoring Press Coverage of the War in Gaza

Monitoring Press Coverage of the War in Gaza

In late May, an Israeli airstrike set a Gazan refugee camp in Rafah ablaze, killing 45 people, half of whom were women, children, or elderly. International media covered the event, one of the deadliest single incidents in Gaza, notwithstanding the latest strike that...

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