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Preparing for the Day After the War

Israel has changed, we have changed, reality has changed. As Naomi Chazan, former president of NIF's international board, has said, “there won’t be a single day when we declare that we’re ‘after’ [October 7th]—in fact, we’re already living it”. This idea—that we are...

This is the Moment to Stand Together

Photo credit: Gili Getz By Libby Lenkinski, NIF US VP of Public Engagement November 17, 2023 Let me tell you about the week I had. From the moment our friends, the co-directors of Standing Together (עומדים ביחד – نقف معًا) Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green, landed here in...

Tackling Settler Violence in the West Bank

Earlier this year, NIFC approved emergency funding for a project with Haqel - In Defense of Human Rights, a Jewish-Arab human rights group that works in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Throughout the year, settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank...

Ottawa Naomi Chazan Fellows Host Shabbat Dinner

Last week, the two Ottawa-based NIFC Naomi Chazan Fellows, Sarah Broitman and Pauley Tedoff, hosted a Shabbat dinner for a group of 17 young Jews in Ottawa. The large majority of guests were new to NIFC's work. They reflected on the past month, their experiences...

Giving Tuesday 2023

Dear Friends in the NIF Community in Israel: project partners, staff, activists, and supporters, Thank you for all of the vitally important work you have done this year, particularly in this unprecedented time of crisis and challenge. In what has been one of the most...

NIF International CEO: “Ceasefire” does not mean peace

Responding to the news that fifty Israeli hostages are coming home and 150 Palestinian women and children are being released from Israeli jails as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel’s government and Hamas, NIF International CEO Daniel Sokatch released the...

In tribute to Vivian Silver (z”l)

On November 13th, we learned that Israeli-Canadian Vivian Silver – believed captured in Gaza – was murdered in her home in Be'eri. It took 5 weeks for them to identify her body. Vivian...

Out of the Pain and Horror and Towards a Shared Future

By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO It’s been one month since October 7, 2023, a day that will go down as perhaps the darkest in Israel’s history. Like so many of you, I cannot stop thinking about the people—parents, children, grandmothers, grandfathers,...

Finding Light in the Darkness

By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO Millions of people around the world, including me, you, and the President of the United States, waited in agony and in hope, for four-year-old Avigail Idan to be released from Hamas captivity. Thank God Avigail is free. But she...

Calling out Settler Violence in the West Bank

With so many eyes on Gaza after Hamas’ horrific attack on Israeli communities and the subsequent military bombardment and ground invasion of the Strip, very few are focused on what is going on in the West Bank. Israeli settlers, backed by the government and military,...

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