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 Bar-Lev
Sanford Gallanter
Linda Gallanter
Raquel H. Newman
Craig Newmark
Stuart Pollak
Adene Sacks
Lela Sarnat
Ingrid Tauber
Bonnie Tenenbaum
Vincent Worms

Los Angeles and Southern California

Sara Cannon
James Cummings
Reuben Dori
Richard Gunther
Lois Gunther
Luis Lainer

Chicago

Aviva Futorian
Robert Lifton
Bettylu Saltzman
Carole Segal

New York

Karen Adler
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
Richard Jacobs
Leslie Kimerling
Sara Klein
Jonathan Klein
Donald Landis
Betsy Landis
Shelle Levine
Bryna Linett
Jonathan Lopatin
J. Rolando Matalon
Cindy Miller
Aaron Panken
Kathleen Peratis
Paula Rackoff
Irwin Rosenblum
Nancy Schwartz Sternoff
Gordon Tucker
David Umansky
Agnes Varis
Al Vorspan
Michael Walzer
Carole Zabar

Washington, DC

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

Boston

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

Florida

Noreen Sablotsky

Other US 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

Israel

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