Pain is everywhere right now in the land between the river and the sea. But we at NIF are doing what we always do: finding the light in the darkness and working to help it grow. | | | | NIF's past board president David Myers remembers Rabbi David Ellenson, renowned scholar, teacher and thinker, and beloved by so many in the NIF community. | | | | Jews and Arabs were both victims of Hamas on October 7; two organizations are tapping into their stories to build solidarity. | | | | Zazim and other civil society groups call on the Israeli military and the US administration to prevent more civilian deaths in Gaza and provide immediate humanitarian aid. | | | | Civil society organizations are stepping in where Israel's government falls short in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. | | | | Consolidating your charitable giving into a single, values-based donor advised fund with NIF. | | | | Shatil's Center for Policy Change has a new Director. His work is key to stopping anti-democratic legislation in Israel. | | | Barak Ravid, Axios, December 13, 2023 | Colleen Long, Aamer Madhani, AP News, December 12, 2023 | New York Times, December 12, 2023 | Can We Talk?, Jewish Women's Archive, December 12, 2023 | Jaclyn Diaz, Michele Kelemen, NPR, December 12, 2023 | TOI Staff, Times of Israel, December 12, 2023 | Ari L. Goldman, New York Times, December 10, 2023 | Noa Shpigel, Michael Hauser Tov, Haaretz, December 7, 2023 | Noa Shpigel, Jonathan Lis, Ben Samuels, Haaretz, December 7, 2023 | Emma Goldberg, Marc Tracy, New York Times, December 5, 2023 | Shannon Vavra, The Daily Beast, December 4, 2023 | Katherine Rosman, Lisa Lerer, New York Times, December 4, 2023 | Asma Khalid, NPR, December 2, 2023 | Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, November 30, 2023 | | | NIF helps Israel live up to its founders' vision of a state that ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants. Our aim is to advance liberal democracy, including freedom of speech and minority rights, and to fight inequality, injustice, and extremism that diminish Israel. | | | Our P.O. Box for donations: | New Israel Fund (NIF) P.O. Box 70358 Philadelphia, PA 19176-0358 United States | | | |