The New Israel Fund’s International Council is an advisory group established in 2002 to supplement the work of the organization’s governing Board.  The role of the IC is to sustain involvement of past Board members and to educate, motivate, and nurture future leadership for the Fund.  Members of the Council provide financial support, participate in Board/Council deliberations and study tour opportunities, serve on Board committees, represent NIF in their home communities and assist NIF to reach out to new supporters. 

International Council Members

San Francisco and Northern California

Joshua (Shua) Bar-Lev
Sanford (Sandy) Gallanter
Linda  Gallanter
Raquel H. (Racky) Newman
Craig Newmark
Stuart (Stu) Pollak
Adene Sacks
Lela  Sarnat
Ingrid  Tauber
Bonnie  Tenenbaum
Paul Wachter
Diane Wexler
Vincent Worms

Los Angeles and Southern California

Sara  Cannon
James  Cummings
Reuben  Dori
Richard (Dick) Gunther
Lois  Gunther
Luis  Lainer

Chicago

Aviva  Futorian
Robert "Bud"  Lifton
Bettylu  Saltzman
Carole  Segal

New York

Karen Adler
Yossef Beinart
Oz  Benamram
Alan  Cohen
Carolyn Cohen
Yehudah  Cohn
Rachel  Cowan
Jerome  Davidson
Shelley  Fischel
Barry Gaberman
Bruce    Goldberger
Phyllis  Goldman
Sally  Gottesman
Sherri Greenbach
Liz  Greenstein
Michael  Hirschhorn
Marvin Israelow
Richard  (Rick) Jacobs
Leslie  Kimerling
Sara  Klein
Jonathan  Klein
Donald (Don) Landis
Betsy  Landis
Shelley  Levine
Bryna Linett
Jonathan Lopatin
J. Rolando (Roly)  Matalon
Cindy Miller
Aaron  Panken
Kathleen  Peratis
Paula  Rackoff
Irwin  Rosenblum
Lawrence (Larry) Schwartz
Nancy  Schwartz Sternoff
Gideon Stein
Gordon  Tucker
David  Umansky
Agnes Varis
Al  Vorspan
Michael  Walzer
Carole Zabar

Washington

Sara  Ehrman
Judith  Gelman
Frances  Goldman
Barbara S.  Green
Amb.  Martin Indyk (Co-Chair, International Council)
Linda  Klein
Joan Kuriansky
Terry  Lenzner
Judith  Lichtman
Ellen  Malcolm
David  Saperstein
Frank  Vogl

Boston

Mindy  Berman
Gabby Blum
Leonard "Leibel"  Fein
Eleanor Friedman
Jeffrey Green
Geoffrey  Lewis
Dale Mnookin
Robert  Mnookin
Bonnie  Orlin
Moshe  Safdie
Harriet  Schley
Alan  Solomont
Prudence Steiner
Alfred   (Fred)  Tauber

Florida

Noreen  Sablotsky

Other U.S. Regions

Lois  Frank
Jan  Liff
Louis  Newman
Butch  Weaver

International

Ellen  Dahrendorf
Isser  Dubinsky
Lawrence Englander
Joan Garson
David  Goldberg
Mark Goldberg
Shira  Herzog
June  Jacobs
Pierre Loeb
Claude Rakovsky
Simone  Susskind
Sharon Weintraub

Israel

Michel  Abitbol
Ismail  Abu Saad
Arieh  Arnon
Eliyahu Bareket
Mordechai "Morale"  Bar-On
Avrum  Burg (Co-Chair International Council)
Avner  De-Shalit
Rami  Entin
Uzi  Even
Sidra  Ezrahi
Lily  Galili
Ruth  Gavison
Benny  Gidron
Amiram Goldblum
Tova  Halbertal
Yisca  Harani
Gilad  Harish
Dorothy  Harman
Shlomo  Hasson
Nehama  Hillman
Michael  Kariyani
Haim  Izraeli
Judith  Karp
Yadin  Kaufman
Ofra Kochavi-Zeidman
Mordecai  Kremnitzer
David  Libai
Sami  Michael
Jacob Ner David
Israela Oron
Ruth  Ottolenghi
Gabbi  Peretz
Yoram  Peri
Alon Piltz
Frances  Raday
Talia Sasson
Amnon  Sella
Hannan Serphos
Uri Scharf
Alla Shainskaja
Alice  Shalvi
Shimon  Shamir
Aliza  Shenhar
Ruth  Sheshinski
Varda  Shiffer
Jonathan (Yoni) Shimshoni
Joel  Siegel
Edna  Ullmann - Margalit
Ami Weinstein
Dan Yakir
Alex Yoffe
Dina  Zisserman
Neta Ziv