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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...
Preventing Evictions in Masafer Yatta
Last week the Israeli military announced that it soon plans to start preparation for the eviction of Palestinians from their homes in the Masafer Yatta region in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. NIFC flagship partner the Association for Civil Rights in...
We Are the Pro-Democracy Pushback
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO Two Saturdays ago, tens of thousands of Israelis, led by NIF grantee Standing Together (Omdim Beyachad-Naqif Ma’an), took to the streets to protest the radical and antidemocratic agenda of Israel’s new government. NIF was proud...
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