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 From New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch: “Israel Is On A Dangerous Path”
6 January 2011The 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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Katsav’s Conviction a Win for Women’s Rights and The Rule of Law
30 December 2010Washington: The New Israel Fund (NIF) praised today’s conviction of former Israeli president Moshe Katsav for rape and sexual harassment as both a victory for women’s rights and a validation of Israel’s democratic institutions.
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Nearly 1000 of World’s Rabbis Urge Israeli Colleagues to Reject Racist Religious Ruling
16 December 2010NEW YORK— Nearly 1000 rabbis from every Jewish religious denomination sent a letter to their Israeli colleagues this week condemning the recent rabbinical ruling forbidding Jews in Israel to rent or sell homes to Arabs as a “painful distortion of our tradition” and “ Chillul HaShem, a desecration of God’s name.”
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New Israel Fund Says “YES” to Prime Minister Netanyahu
7 December 2010The New Israel Fund, the leading organization committed to equality and democracy for all Israelis, today issued the following statement.
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NIF Response on BDS
18 November 2010Since the policy that Mr. Goldberg quotes was written, we at the New Israel Fund have made clear, not once but many times, that we do not support global BDS nor will we support organizations with BDS programs. The original policy left room for the discretion we require as funders, the kind of discretion that allows us to engage in dialogue with an important organization that signs one letter supporting divestment rather than summarily dismissing them.
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Daniel Sokatch named to ‘Forward 50’
4 November 2010Last week, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch was named one of the FORWARD NEWSPAPER’S “FORWARD 50,” an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish decision-makers. This is his fourth appearance on the list, having also received the honor in 2002, 2005 and 2008.
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Statement from New Israel Fund Re: Cessation of Hagee Funding for Im Tirtzu
24 August 2010
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Statement of the New Israel Fund: Baloney. Distortions. Simply Not True.
28 May 2010Yet again, the NGO Monitor distorts the facts in a misleading attempt to associate the New Israel Fund with the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
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New Israel Fund Calls on Prime Minister Netanyahu to Strengthen Israel’s Democratic and Pluralistic Foundation
23 March 2010Washington DC, – As Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu arrives in the United States to meet with President Barack Obama and Jewish leaders, the New Israel Fund is launching a new campaign in defense of democracy in Israel. Citing more than a year of attacks on Israeli civil society and the repression of dissent, NIF is calling on supporters and like-minded individuals to sign a petition calling on the Prime Minister to stand with all those working to strengthen a democratic and pluralistic Israel.
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Dr. Jill Biden, Wife of the Vice President, Praises New Israel Fund/Shatil Bedouin Women’s Program
11 March 2010Laqia, Israel: Dr. Jill Biden, the wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, visited the Min Ajlina (“For Our Rights”) Bedouin Women’s Empowerment Project in Israel’s Negev today and expressed support for the program, which is a joint project of the New Israel Fund/SHATIL and the U.S. State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI.) The multi-track program strengthens Bedouin women as social change leaders, empowering them to effect positive change in public policy and advance the status and lives of Bedouin women in the Negev.
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