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Empowering Leadership for Shared Society

Courtesy of Shatil staff Mass expulsions from unrecognized villages, Muslims barred from Al-Aqsa Mosque, and free reign given to Jewish militant vigilantes. These are some of the worst-case scenarios that shared society NGO CEOs envisioned in a Shatil-guided...

Continuing to Fight for Democracy

On Monday February 20th, the Knesset passed the first reading of a series of judicial amendments introduced by Justice Minister Yariv Levin that begin the process of overhauling Israel’s judiciary. The amendments, if...

The Elephant at the Pro-Democracy Protests

By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO Israel’s pro-democracy protests reached a new fever pitch this week, as the Knesset advanced legislation that would effectively end judicial independence. As I’ve written in this column before, the proposed bills would...

Add Your Name: We Support Israel’s Religious Left

Recently, activists from across the religious spectrum hosted the first-ever conference for Israel's religious left to talk about our movement's work for equality, justice, and democracy under the new hardline government. The organizers included Haredim, Mizrahi...

Take Action: Join 70+ Canadian justices and law professors against the judicial override

I need your help as a fellow lawyer and supporter of NIFC. Just yesterday, over 70 Canadian professors of law and retired judges published a letter on the U of T faculty blog opposing the Israeli government’s proposals to gut an independent judiciary. This is a major...

Take Action: Share Irwin Cotler’s warning against judicial reforms

A lot of Canadians – and Jewish institutions here – are just now coming to terms with an Israeli government led by religious extremists and ultra-nationalists. You can take a small step today to help us convince them to take a side: this morning The Times of Israel...

Blocking Ben-Gvir’s Police Reforms

Human Rights Groups Petition High Court to Halt Ben-Gvir’s Police Reforms NIFC flagship partner the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) as well as the Public Committee Against...

Convening the Religious Left

The New Israel Fund in Israel supported the first-ever conference for Israel’s religious left on Monday, January 23rd in Jerusalem, with over a thousand registrants and over 600 participants in the event, a...

Shatil Spotlight: The Political is Personal

Photo: Yulia Binyamin By Suzanne Cannon, Shatil Director of Development It’s January. A new year. As I watch people take to the streets to protest the policies of the new government, I remember January 1988 when I moved from London to Jerusalem. Israel was different...

PHOTOS: What our Naomi Chazan Fellows saw last week

By Hannah Cohen, Director of Operations and Programs I've just returned home to Toronto after an eight-day trip to Israel-Palestine staffing the Naomi Chazan Fellowship Trip. Despite the jetlag — and very gloomy Toronto weather — I am returning feeling motivated and...

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