Doctors’ Order: Women Should be Seen and Heard!

The Israel Medical Association did something great. It issued new ethical guidelines this week that prevented its members from speaking at a gynecology conference in which women experts were barred from speaking. In doing so, it sent a clear message that mainstream Israel rejects the denigration of women. Read More >

Women Should be Seen and Heard

Advertisers are caving in to the demands of extremist ultra-Orthodox groups. They’re dropping photos of women from posters and billboards in Jerusalem. As a result, images of women are now conspicuously absent from the city’s streets. Even ballet studios and women’s clothing stores have stopped using photos of women. Read More >

Stand up for democracy in Israel

A subcommittee of the Israeli cabinet voted to approve two bills that seek to limit the ability of progressive Israeli groups to raise funds. The bills explicitly target funding for human rights and social justice groups. Read More >

Yeshivas should be houses of learning; not houses of incitement.

Israel's Education Ministry closed down an extremist yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar because its students were attacking Palestinians and the Israeli army. Read more >

Stand up for Israel's Human Rights Organizations

Yet again, Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party is leading the charge to “investigate” Israel’s human rights community. And when that’s accomplished, he wants to radically restrict their funding from other democratic governments – support that is legal and conventional in every Western democracy, including the United States. Read more >

Don't Boycott Democracy

The “boycott bill” criminalizing free speech is only one of many anti-democratic measures that have been introduced in the Knesset. Other measures would cripple human rights organizations, further marginalize Israel’s Arab minority, constrict the right of peaceful protest or hamper an independent judiciary. Read more >

The New Israel Fund and its family of organizations will be fighting against the proposed loyalty oath together. Please join us today and let Prime Minister Netanyahu know that Israel’s status as a liberal democracy is again at risk. Urge him to withdraw support for the Citizenship Act Amendment now. There is no time to lose. Read more >

Say NO to religious extremism

Ask Prime Minister Netanyahu to block legislation that would give the ultra-Orthodox absolute control over conversion in Israel. Prime Minster Netanyahu has said he will not bring the bill before the Knesset. We must hold him to this pledge. Read more >

Say No to the Back of the Bus

Contact Transport Minister Katz and ask him to reject public buses with segregated seating. Read more >