Read NIF's latest press releases and statements. For press inquiries, please contact Elisheva Goldberg at: ‪917.740.4031 phone or [email protected].

• Statement from Hedva Radanovitz

  5 September 2011

  I am concerned and disappointed about the leak of a February 2010 conversation through Wikileaks. The views I expressed (which were not reported accurately) were my own, not those of NIF, and were never intended to represent NIF’s positions. NIF is on record as dedicated to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.

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• Noam Shelef Joins New Israel Fund as Director of Digital Strategy

  25 July 2011

  Washington, DC. – The New Israel Fund (NIF) is pleased to announce that Noam Shelef will be assuming the newly created Director of Digital Strategy position on July 25, 2011. Shelef will oversee online strategy, develop NIF’s social media presence and grow online, mobile and social media opportunities that will extend New Israel Fund in the digital channels.

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• New Israel Fund Welcomes Knesset Rejection of “Investigation” Of Human Rights Groups

  20 July 2011
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• Progressive groups to march together for the first time in New York’s annual “Celebrate Israel Parade”

  24 May 2011

  Americans for Peace Now, Meretz-USA, New Israel Fund, and Rabbis for Human Rights-North America will march for the first time as a progressive cluster in the 2011 Celebrate Israel Parade in New York on Sunday, June 5th.

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• More (to put it charitably) Mistakes from NGO Monitor

  15 May 2011

  In a new statement, Dr. Gerald Steinberg and NGO Monitor dispute the indisputable – that last week, they put out a “report” about Coalition of Women for Peace as an NIF-supported organization, despite having been personally informed by our top official in Israel, Rachel Liel, that that is not the case.

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• NGO Monitor Attacks New Israel Fund Based On Information it Knew to be Wrong

  12 May 2011

  Washington, DC— NGO Monitor today knowingly published false information in its newsletter that mistakenly identifies New Israel Fund as a funder of the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP).

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• NIF Statement on Goldstone

  4 April 2011

  Since its establishment, the New Israel Fund has striven to strengthen both Israel and its democratic character. Following “Operation Cast Lead,” the human rights organizations supported by NIF called for the Israeli government to set up an independent commission of inquiry. Had the government agreed, this would have prevented the establishment of the Goldstone Commission.

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• NIF Statement on Itamar Murders

  4 April 2011

  The New Israel Fund is deeply pained over the murder of the Fogel Family in Itamar and vehemently opposes any justification of such an inconceivable crime. Murder is the most extreme violation of our most basic human rights – the right to live. Violence against citizens is illegal and completely counterproductive to legitimate democratic processes.

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• Statement from New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch: Knesset Probe of Human Rights Organizations Fails to Garner Majority

  22 February 2011

  Following the postponement – and likely failure – of the Knesset inquiry into the activities of Israel’s human rights community, the New Israel Fund released this statement from CEO Daniel Sokatch

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• Statement From New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch: “Israel Is On A Dangerous Path”

  6 January 2011

  The New Israel Fund today released this statement from CEO Daniel Sokatch regarding the Knesset “parliamentary inquiry” into the activities of Israel’s human rights community: A healthy democracy respects and protects human rights. It does not engage in continual attempts to put its internationally-respected human rights organizations out of business.

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