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How NIF is Supporting The Survivors of October 7

How NIF is Supporting The Survivors of October 7

Photo credit: Lior Segev, Shatil Stock Before and after October 7th, the Israeli government remains the same: dysfunctional, corrupt, and deeply uninterested in helping its own citizens. In the weeks since Hamas’s attack, many Israeli families from the south have had...

Israeli Groups Call to Stop Civilian Deaths in Gaza

Israeli Groups Call to Stop Civilian Deaths in Gaza

Photo credit: Noam Amir, Shatil Stock On December 13th, a group of Israeli organizations—many of them NIF grantees—published a major letter to President Biden urging him to insist that the Israeli military change its strategy to avoid further civilian deaths and the...

Building a Shared Future—Together

Building a Shared Future—Together

Immediately after learning about Hamas’s terror attack on October 7th, Shir Nosatzki, co-founder and director of Have You Seen The Horizon Lately and Hanan Alsana, a lawyer with Itach-Maaki, knew they would have to act. They understood quickly that there would be...

This Bruised and Broken Land

This Bruised and Broken Land

By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO I am writing to you from Kibbutz Tzuba, west of Jerusalem, where I’ve just celebrated the seventh night of Chanukah with three generations of my cousins—a big, beautiful family that has always been the heart of my Israel....

Reporting on Gender Based Violence as a Weapon of War

Reporting on Gender Based Violence as a Weapon of War

A new report by NIF partner Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI) uses evidence gathered to confirm that sexual violence was used as a weapon of war by Hamas and calls to center the physical and emotional needs of the victims of the violence. The report is based...

Shatil Spotlight: Helping Bedouins in the Negev

Shatil Spotlight: Helping Bedouins in the Negev

On the morning of October 7, the Alqur’an family awoke to the deafening shrieks of rockets hurtling toward their small desert community. After the rockets’ impact, several family members approached the explosion site to check for casualties. Shortly afterwards, a...

Director’s Note: Preparing for the Day After

Director’s Note: Preparing for the Day After

By Ben Murane, Executive Director Israel has changed, we have changed, reality has changed. There has been a lot of anticipation about “the day after” the war, though nobody can say precisely when that day will be. Fearful Israelis displaced from their homes near Gaza...

Preparing for the Day After the War

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

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

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...

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