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 Sokatch: “If Netanyahu Pushes Israel Into Annexation, There Will Be No Democratic Israel”
7 April 2019Responding to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration that he will begin annexation if re-elected, Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund (NIF), released the following statement. . .
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7,500 American Jews: We Stand With Israelis Who Say No Kahanists In the Knesset
6 March 2019Over 7,500 American Jews, and another 1,000 from Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, have joined a petition in support of nearly 20,000 Israelis who have petitioned Israel’s Central Elections Committee to ban the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party from running in the April 9th elections.
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Following Otzma Yehudit Agreement, Eight Leading Organizations Call On American Jewish Community To Affirm: Kahanists Have No Place In The Knesset
21 February 2019We call on our colleagues in the American Jewish community and Jewish organizations to stand for democracy and equality and join us in affirming that Kahanists have no place in the Knesset.
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NIF CEO Sokatch: “Kahanists Are A Danger To Israeli Democracy, All Israelis”
20 February 2019Today, responding to the news of Kahanism in the public sphere, Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund, released the following statement. . .
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NIF CEO: We Stand With Ethiopian Israelis And All Protesting Racism And Police Violence
31 January 2019On Wed. 1/30, Israelis protested racist treatment by police, including violence, toward Ethiopian Israelis and other minority groups. NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement. . .
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New Israel Fund CEO Sokatch: “Friends of Democratic Israel Must Oppose Gag Bills That Harm Israel And Free Speech”
7 January 2019Today, in response to Congressional efforts to pass a bill that would penalize Americans who call for boycott of Israel or Israeli settlements, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement. . .
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Amos Oz z”l
28 December 2018With the passing of Amos Oz, Israel lost one of its most articulate champions for peace and liberal democracy.
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NIF CEO SOKATCH: “Friends of Democratic Israel Must Oppose Gag Bills That Harm Israel And Free Speech”
19 December 2018In response to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU challenging a Texas law that imposes penalties on those who call for boycott of Israel or Israeli settlements, and in response to efforts in the U.S. Senate to include such legislation in the year-end appropriations bill, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement. . .
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Five Organizations Reject Erdan’s Attack on Airbnb
5 December 2018We are dismayed to read your letter to governors of US states, in which you assert that Airbnb’s decision to delist homes in West Bank Jewish settlements is tantamount to adhering to the BDS Movement and constitutes anti-Semitism.
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Attack on Tree of Life Synagogue
28 October 2018We are angered and horrified by the news from Pittsburgh, where congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue were shot by a gunman with apparent anti-Semitic motives…
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