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• Letter to Netanyahu: Don’t ban women speakers from a gynecology conference

  10 January 2012

  NIF is a convener.  When major issues arise, NIF and its action arm SHATIL mobilize coalitions to make the largest possible impact.  As the clamor over the exclusion of women grows louder, women doctors and experts are excluded from speaking at an upcoming conference focusing on women’s sexual health and fertility issues.  Excluding women from a government-funded conference on women’s issues is unacceptable.  The letter below was sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (who also serves as Israel’s Minister of Health) on Sunday:

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• New Israel Fund Condemns Violence

  15 December 2011

  NIF strongly condemns the recent spate of attacks on mosques in Israel and the West Bank as well as the rising violence targeting the Israeli Defense Force.

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• NIF Condemns Arson of Arab Bedouin Volunteer Center

  14 December 2011

  Responding to Sunday’s arson at the Arab Bedouin Volunteer Center in Be’er Sheva, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch made the following statement:

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• New Israel Fund Sponsors Programs, Issues Grants as Women’s Issues Heat Up

  12 December 2011

  As part of an international campaign to restore the sight and sound of women to the public sphere in Israel, the New Israel Fund (NIF) and its grantee Yisrael Chofshit (Free Israel) sponsored a rally for women’s rights in downtown Jerusalem yesterday evening.

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• New Israel Fund asks: “Send us your photo” — Women should be seen AND heard in Jerusalem

  2 December 2011

  Washington, DC. In reaction to the increasing trend of gender segregation and exclusion of women from the public sphere in Jerusalem, this week the New Israel Fund launched a campaign asking Americans to send in photos to post in public places in that city. Recently, an NIF grantee called “Yerushalmim” (Jerusalemites) put up 150 posters of women around the city, after it became evident that advertisers there were no longer using women’s images in order to appease the city’s ultra-Orthodox population.

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• Statement following Cabinet Legislation Committee’s Approval of anti-democratic bills

  13 November 2011

  Statement following Cabinet Legislation Committee’s Approval of anti-democratic bills

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• Israel’s Democracy Under Attack: Analysis of Akunis & Kirshenbaum Bills

  8 November 2011

  This Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet will vote on the Akunis and Kirshenbaum bills, both of which would severely restrict or tax foreign funding for Israeli civil society, and which are the latest salvo in the war against human rights and social justice groups in Israel.  Prime Minister Netanyahu has already indicated his support for the bills, which are a naked attempt to silence voices critical of government policy that the right-wing governing coalition has deemed unacceptable.  This is yet another step in an unprecedented assault on law-abiding, internationally-recognized non-governmental organizations and poses a serious danger to Israeli democracy.

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• 1000 Rabbis Condemn Galilee Mosque Arson as New Israel Fund Coalition’s ‘Convoy’ Arrives to Express Support

  6 October 2011
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• Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and New Israel Fund Call on Israeli State Attorney to Investigate Anatot Attacks

  6 October 2011

  Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and the New Israel Fund call on the Israeli State Attorney to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation of the role of police officers in the Rosh Hashanah attacks, on Friday September 30, by residents of Anatot on activists visiting a Palestinian Israeli family. Twenty Israeli activists were injured in the attacks, including six who required hospitalization and nine who received medical treatment in clinics.

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• NIF Statement: Wikileaks on Anti-Democratic Legislation

  6 September 2011
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