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Partnering with Haaretz for a Conference on Peace & Security
On Monday, September 16, the New Israel Fund held a conference on the intersection of security and politics in partnership with Israel’s newspaper of record, Haaretz, and the political-security joint program run by the Berel Katznelson Foundation and the Mitvim...
Advancing Gender Equity in Israel via Coalition Building
The consecutive crises of the past year and a half have made one thing clear: when women are absent from leadership positions, it leads to long-lasting, dramatic consequences. The ongoing war erupted against the backdrop of Israel’s democratic crisis, exacerbating the...
Why 18 Jewish clergy like me joined NIFC
By Cantor Cheryl Wunch It’s been a difficult year to be Jewish in Canada. It’s been difficult for observant Jews, secular Jews, Jewish students, and those of us who consider ourselves to be "professional Jews." Jewish clergy like me – rabbis, cantors, and other...
Pushing the Boulder Uphill Together: Reflections from Israel and the West Bank by a Naomi Chazan Fellow
Naomi Chazan Fellows and staff with former NIF President Prof. Naomi Chazan. My name is Syvanne Avitzur, and I am a 2024 Naomi Chazan Fellow, a New Generations Leadership Council Member, and a newly appointed board member of the New Israel Fund of Canada. This summer,...
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...
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