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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
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
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...
The Deep Uncertainty of Now, and How We are Thinking About It
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF international CEO We are living through a moment of uncertainty unlike any other in recent memory. We have been holding our breath since July 31, when an explosion in Tehran, widely attributed to Israel, killed Hamas’s political chief Ismail...
PHOTOS: Naomi Chazan Fellowship trip
Our 2024 Naomi Chazan fellows have just returned from an eight-day trip to Israel-Palestine, where they were able to meet with a wide variety of NIF partner organizations and learn about the crucial work they're doing. From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and from Nazareth to...
Buying into “Together We Win” Means We All Lose
By Mickey Gitzin, NIF's Director in Israel Nearly nine months into the war here in Israel, the words “together, we will win” still appear on street signs, supermarket receipts and on the sides of buses. This so-called unity slogan, which warmed hearts in October and...
Why I Protested Netanyahu’s Speech in Washington
By: Shimrit Braun Kamin July 25, 2024 My name is Shimrit Braun Kamin. I work for the New Israel Fund in San Francisco, and I am an Israeli expat, and proud member of UnXeptable’s volunteer organizing team. Yesterday, I was in Washington D.C. with hundreds of...
Beating Back the Forces of Repression
A march in Tel Aviv for Jews and Arabs had been in the works for months. Scheduled to happen on Thursday, July 18, the march was meant to be a demonstration where Israeli citizens of all stripes could come together to call for a ceasefire and a hostage deal. They...
A View from the Ground: Major Peace Event in Tel Aviv
6,000 people–Jews and Palestinians, young and old, from the country’s urban center and from the periphery–gathered in Tel Aviv last night for one of the largest peace events since October 7. Dozens of organizations, many of them NIF grantees and NIFC funded partners...
Meet our 2024-2025 Naomi Chazan Fellows
Syvanne Avitzur is an Israeli-born Canadian, an NIFC New Generations Leadership Council Member, and a former volunteer with NIF in Jerusalem who cares deeply about NIF’s mission. She is working towards her M.A. in Public and International Affairs at the University of...
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