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Sending Food and Aid to Gaza’s Civilians
Photo Credit: Mati Milstein for NIF As the humanitarian situation in Gaza deteriorated last year, NIF's global network took the unusual step of raising funds to help feed innocent people in Gaza. We identified two international aid organizations who were best...
Insisting on Basic Rights For Bedouin Citizens in the Negev
Photo Credit: Yossi Zamir, Shatil Stock At a time when the media is preoccupied by wars, regime changes, regional power plays, and Trump’s inauguration day, very few are focused on what is happening to the Negev Bedouin: mass home demolitions and displacement of...
Mobilizing Against a Racist and Anti-Democratic Bill in the Knesset
The winter session of the Knesset has barely begun, but the Netanyahu government is wasting no time jump-starting its program to weaken Israel’s democratic institutions in this new Knesset winter session. A key example of Netanyahu’s ongoing attempt to weaken the...
Survey: Canadian Jews Divided Over Israel and Canadian Politics
Today, we and our partners JSpaceCanada and Canadian Friends of Peace Now published the results of a survey of Canadian Jews that we commissioned with public opinion research firm Leger and with advice by Prof. Robert Brym. Read the full report below. | Download it...
Former Israeli Defense Minister Yaalon is warning of ethnic cleansing in north Gaza. Everyone should listen.
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO Moshe Yaalon, who served as the IDF Chief of Staff during the second intifada, and as Prime Minister Netanyahu’s defense minister during the 2014 Gaza war, is no leftist, and certainly no friend of the Palestinians. But last...
Speaking Out About Israeli Military Practices in Gaza
Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Shatil Stock After more than a year, and with 101 Israelis still held captive, the war in Gaza continues. NIF grantees and NIFC project partners are among the few who are working to ensure that inhumane practices of the IDF are made public....
What we’re proud of this year – and preparing for next year
By Ben Murane, Executive Director Across Israel today, there is a great struggle over which path the country should take in the aftermath of the horrifying Hamas attack of October 7th and the ongoing war. There are two powerful narrative visions at work. One of these...
Raising Awareness of Settler Violence Through Documentation
On the same night that Israeli and international media zeroed in on the violent attacks in Amsterdam against Jewish Israeli soccer fans, extremist Jewish Israeli settlers were violently attacking Palestinians more than 2,500 miles away. NIF grantees and NIFC project...
Honouring the Memory of Vivian Silver: A New Award for Female Peacebuilders
Vivian Silver z”l was a lifelong peace activist, CEO of the Negev Institute for Peace and Development Strategies, founder of the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment, and Cooperation, and an active NIF board member. A friend to many in our community, she was a...
Envisioning The Negev Anew Through Equality and Partnership
“October 7 physically and metaphorically shattered our homes into pieces that cannot be reassembled.” —Noam Stahl, Kfar Aza resident As NIF prepares to launch the new Equality and Partnership in the Negev project, staff members visited Kibbutz Kfar Aza, the...
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