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• New Israel Fund Provides Special Assistance to Disadvantaged from North of Israel: Refugees Tell Their Stories from Relative Safety

  4 August 2006

  Washington, D.C. As the crisis in Israel wears on, the New Israel Fund is acting quickly to assist Israel’s most vulnerable people, and ensure their needs are met, their voices heard, and their rights respected.

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• MEDIA ADVISORY: The New Israel Fund and the Current Crisis

  25 July 2006

  Washington, D.C., — The New Israel Fund, the preeminent funder and founder of social change organizations and coalitions in Israel, today announced immediate plans for providing special assistance to targeted grantees and sectors in Israel to respond to the current crisis.

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• Foremost Progressive Zionist Group Leads LGBT Tour for Jerusalem World Pride 2006

  26 May 2006

  Washington, D.C. The New Israel Fund (NIF), the leading funder and founder of progressive civil society in Israel , is leading a special LGBT tour in Israel August 2-11, including participation in the World Pride events in Jerusalem . NIF was the first funder of Jerusalem Open House, Israel’s leading gay rights organization and lead organizer of Jerusalem World Pride, and has worked in Israel for 27 years for civil and human rights, social and economic justice, and religious pluralism and tolerance.

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• Israeli Elections a Victory for Social Justice, but Concerns Raised about Arab Minority

  30 March 2006

  Washington, D.C. ” More than the victory of any one party or another, than plans for further territorial withdrawal, Tuesday’s election results were above all a victory for the civic, social welfare agenda that interests voters more than security and foreign policy measures in their daily lives”, wrote Ruth Sinai of Ha’aretz in the aftermath of Israel ‘s historic election this week. The New Israel Fund, the leading voice for progressive civil society in Israel , today expressed satisfaction that social and economic justice issues played a prominent role in the Israeli elections on Tuesday. NIF, a partnership of Israelis and Diaspora Jews working for civil rights and social justice in Israel , noted that the probability of a center-left coalition, including the surprising showing of the Pensioners’ Party, might well restore social and economic issues to the top of Israel ‘s political agenda.

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• Israel’s Other Threats: NIForum to Debate Minority Rights, Religion/State Issues February 12

  30 January 2006

  Most American coverage of Israel centers on the peace process. While security issues remain paramount, two other unresolved issues threaten Israeli democracy.

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• Press Release: “Against All Odds” Draws Large Television Audiences

  26 January 2006

  An innovative Israeli documentary series initiated and co-produced by the New Israel Fund (NIF) is taking viewers behind the headlines and into the personal world of Israelis who are leading the nation’s social justice movement.

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• Press Release: Against All Odds” Series Airs on Israeli Television

  21 December 2005

  Tonight, Wednesday, December 21, Israel’s Channel Two producer Keshet will air the pilot program of a new documentary series supported by the New Israel Fund (NIF) on the activists and organizations that make up Israel’s social justice movement. The New Israel Fund is the principal funder and advocate of progressive social causes in Israel, and has funded more than 300 Israeli NGOs since its founding in 1979.

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• Media Resources for Intl. Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

  15 November 2005

  Since our founding in 1979, the New Israel Fund has pioneered funding and support for an array of organizations in Israel working for women’s rights and against domestic abuse, violence and the trafficking of women. More specifically, as part of our mission to strengthen democracy and promote social justice, NIF has led a feminist revolution in Israel by strengthening the women’s movement through financial and capacity-building support in order to combat violence against women and the feminization of poverty;

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• Supreme Court Upholds Petition to Dismantle Section of the Fence

  25 September 2005

  Last week a nine judge panel of Israel ‘s Supreme Court ordered the state to dismantle 13 kilometers of the Security Fence already built near the Jewish West Bank settlement of Alfei Menashe, 20 miles northeast of Tel Aviv. This section of the Fence immediately south of the West Bank city of Qalqilya has created an enclave cutting five Palestinian villages off from the rest of the West Bank .  It is the first time that the Court has ruled that existing segments of the Fence must be dismantled.

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• Israelis of All Opinions Gather for “These Things I Weep”

  15 August 2005

  A National Religious rabbi wept for “the ways of baseless hatred.” A rap singer, for “the divided city.” A Gush Katif settler, “for the bones of my daughter.” An Israeli Arab, for the victims of the terror attack in Shfaram. An ultra-Orthodox philanthropist, for the needy and the poor.

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