Read NIF's latest press releases and statements. For press inquiries, please contact Elisheva Goldberg at: 917.740.4031 phone or [email protected].
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Statement of the New Israel Fund RE: Murder of the Three Kidnapped Teenagers
30 June 2014We are devastated to learn of the deaths of the three young Israeli kidnapping victims.
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New Israel Fund Statement: Rejection of J Street from Conference of Presidents
1 May 2014The New Israel Fund is surprised and disappointed that the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations rejected J Street’s application to join as a member.
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Statement on YouTube Video Filmed at Yad V’Shem
29 April 2014NIF and its employees have no connection to the atrocious performance at Yad V’Shem posted to YouTube last week, and we condemn and deplore that performance.
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NIF Makes Emergency Grant to Support African Refugees
6 January 2014Yesterday, at an historical rally in downtown Tel Aviv, 20,000 African migrants and refugees gathered to protest harsh new laws aimed at their status in Israel.
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NIF Statement on ‘Non-Profit Organizations Bill’
16 December 2013The proposed bill which passed today with the support of eight ministers should really be called the ‘Law to Eliminate Freedom of Opinion and Expression in Israel’. It amounts to serious damage to Israeli democracy.
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New Israel Fund and J Street Call ADL’s “Top Anti-Israel Groups” List “Short-Sighted and Unproductive.”
23 October 2013Every organization that works on Israel recognizes that our community is suffering from increasing polarization. That is why we are puzzled when one of the most respected mainstream organizations in the U.S. exacerbates, rather than quiets, unnecessary confrontation.
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New Israel Fund-Supported Groups Win Key Court Victory for African Refugees
16 September 2013Washington DC: A landmark victory for human rights was won in Israel today when an expanded panel of the Supreme Court invalidated the Third Amendment to the Anti-Infiltration Law passed by the Knesset in 2012, which incarcerated more than 2000 African refugees without due process or recourse to the possibility of asylum.
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Statement on Shooting of B’Tselem Spokesperson at Demonstration
22 July 2013New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch issued the following statement regarding the shooting of B’Tselem spokesperson Sarit Michaeli at the West Bank village of Nabi Salah on Friday, July 19.
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NIF Congratulates Tag Meir – Winners of the 2012 Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award
30 May 2013NIF is proud to offer its heartfelt congratulations to the Tag Meir Coalition, one of three recipients of the 2012 Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award. NIF’s flagship grantee the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) presents the annual award to individuals or organizations that have made a unique and outstanding contribution to the advancement of human rights in Israel.
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NIF Announces Grants to Women of the Wall, Other Religious Pluralism Groups
11 March 2013Today, on the Jewish celebration of Rosh Hodesh, the New Israel Fund is thrilled to announce a special grant to Women of the Wall, the preeminent organization working for gender equality at Judaism’s holiest site.
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