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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NIF CEO on Beinart Interrogation: “PM Has Made Border Crossings Into Interrogation Chambers”
13 August 2018Today, responding to the news that journalist Peter Beinart was detained and interrogated by Israeli officials at Ben Gurion airport, Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund, released the following statement. . .
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NIF CEO Sokatch on Gaza Escalation: “Peace Cannot Be Built On War”
10 August 2018Today, in response to recent events in Gaza, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement. . .
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NIF CEO Sokatch on Border Interrogation of Activists: “PM Netanyahu Has Turned Border Crossings Into Interrogation Chambers”
5 August 2018This evening, two American activists who reside in Israel as legal foreign workers with Israeli nonprofit organizations were detained and interrogated for over three hours at the Israeli border crossing at Taba. Simone Zimmerman and Abby Kirschbaum were returning from a weekend in the Sinai when they were stopped at the border; the Ministry of Interior said they were being held by Shin Bet. After around three hours of interrogation, they were released and allowed to enter Israel.
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Backgrounder: The Jews-Only “Nation-State” Bill
20 July 2018The Netanyahu government successfully passed the “Nation-State” Bill yesterday, shortly before the end of the Knesset’s summer session. The vote was 62 to 55.
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NIF CEO: Israel’s “Nation-State Bill” Is Tribalism At Its Worst; Betrays Human Dignity and Equality
18 July 2018Responding to the passage of the “Nation-State Bill,” NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch, released the following statement. . .
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Top American Jewish Organizations In Letter To Herzog: “Nation-State Bill Would Enshrine Discrimination Into Israel’s Basic Laws”
12 July 2018Today, 14 leading American Jewish organizations submitted a letter to Knesset opposition leader Isaac Herzog expressing opposition to the discriminatory “Nation-State Bill,” which is currently advancing in the Knesset.
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NIF CEO: Israel’s “Nation-State Bill” Is Tribalism At Its Worst; Completely Incompatible with Human Dignity and Equality
10 July 2018This week, the Israeli government is working to advance the “Nation-State Bill” in the Knesset. NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement. . .
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NIF CEO on Anti-Filming Bill: Tyrants Restrict the Rights of People to Record What Happens Around Them; Democracies Don’t
15 June 2018Israel’s Cabinet is expected to vote on a bill on Sunday which calls for up to 10-year jail terms for anyone who distributes video or audio footage of IDF Soldiers. In Israel, as elsewhere in the world, video footage of police and military activity has become part of how citizens can blow the whistle on wrongdoing by authorities.
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Israeli Civil Society to Attorney General: Investigate Police Violence Toward Arab Protestors in Haifa
23 May 2018This week, top Israeli civil society groups, including NIF & many of its grantees, sent an urgent letter Israeli attorney general Avichai Mandelblit to demand an immediate investigation into the arrest of Jafar Farah. Farah was arrested by Israeli police on Friday his knee was broken while in police custody, requiring hospitalization.
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NIF CEO on Gaza: Most Important Statement Is Our Grantees’ Work to Protect Human Lives and Rights
14 May 2018We are deeply disturbed that unarmed Palestinian protesters are being killed and wounded by Israeli fire at the Gaza border. Israel has a right to defend its borders and citizens, but must never target unarmed people who pose no threat to security forces. We are also deeply disturbed that Hamas risked the lives of Gaza’s protesters, including children, as cover for terrorist activities.
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