Curious about NIFC’s upcoming study tour to Israel on Sept 15-20? See this photo essay for examples of the kinds of people and places you can visit with us this fall.
NIF staff study tour participants join a demonstration in Tel Aviv calling for peace, a release of all hostages held by Hamas, and an end to war and violence. Signs read: “Only peace will bring security”; “In war, everyone loses”; “Yes to a political process, no to messianic delusions!”; “We will not die for the settlements.”; “Now is the day after.”
NIF staff attend a briefing by Bimkom-Planners for Planning Rights in the Negev Bedouin village of Al-Zarnouq, which is not recognized by Israeli state authorities.
NIF staff assist packing boxes of food and other household supplies in the Negev Bedouin village of Abu Tlul. After the events of October 7, the joint Jewish-Arab relief center, a project of NIF grantees Have You Seen the Horizon Lately and Itach-Maaki—Women Lawyers for Social Justice, began organizing this effort to get supplies to Jewish and Arab families in need across southern Israel.
NIF staff participate in a tour of the Masafer Yatta region of the southern West Bank led by Shatil’s Sahar Vardi (center) and Nadav Weiman of Breaking the Silence (far left). On the tour, participants visited the now-empty village of Zanuta, whose residents recently fled out of fear of violent settlers living nearby.
NIF staff participate in a culinary tour of the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. Here they are hearing from Fanta Prada, owner of the Ethiopian restaurant Balinjera, as she discusses her Ethiopian identity as it intersects with her Israeli identity.
NIF staff meet with Mickey Gitzin (second from right), director of the New Israel Fund in Israel.
NIF staff meet with Nasser Nawaj’ah, a long-time Palestinian activist from the village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta region of the southern West Bank (not seen in photograph), to whom the NIF recently awarded the Truth to Power Award, NIF’s top prize in the realm of human rights in Israel.
NIF staff participating in the study tour enjoy a rare moment of down time in Tel Aviv.
For more information about NIFC’s study tour and to register, click here.