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 the Fall of Netanyahu: “His Legacy Will Echo”
13 June 2021Responding to the news that, after twelve years in power, Benjamin Netanyahu’s term as prime minister has ended, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement.
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NIF CEO: “We Don’t Support BDS. Idaho and West Virginia Laws Harm Israel And Free Speech.”
1 May 2021In response to both the Idaho and West Virginia legislatures passage of laws that penalize Americans who call for boycott of Israel or Israeli settlements, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement.
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In First, the New Israel Fund Gives Grants Directly to Israeli Artists
18 April 2021NIF announced today that it has awarded $42,000 in grants of $3,000 (NIS 10,000) each to 14 individual Israeli artists.
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NIF CEO: “Kahanism is a Danger to Israeli Democracy”
25 March 2021In response to the news that Israel’s Knesset will include the ideological successors to Meir Kahane’s racist ideology, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement.
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“Today is a day to celebrate” – NIF’s Mickey Gitzin on Israeli Supreme Court decision
1 March 2021Responding to the news that Israel’s Supreme Court declared Reform and Conservative conversions in Israel valid for the purposes of Israel’s Law of Return, NIF Directors Mickey Gitzin (Israel) and Rabbi Ayelet S. Cohen (New York / tri-state area) released the following statements.
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Union Yes At The New Israel Fund
2 December 2020On Tuesday, December 1, New Israel Fund’s (NIF) management and Board warmly welcomed NIF Union/OPEIU Local 29, the NIF staff union representing all non-supervisory, non-managerial, non-confidential US-based staff.
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NIF CEO: “Equating all Jews with Israel, as Sec Pompeo has, is antisemitic.”
20 November 2020In response to Secretary Mike Pompeo’s visit to Israeli settlements, plans to classify boycott, divestment and sanctions tactics as antisemitic and equate the West Bank with Israel, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leaves Prize Awarded Day Before Her Death to New Israel Fund
20 October 2020Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (z”l) has designated part of a cash prize to the New Israel Fund (NIF) as one of several organizations which “mean the most to her.” The National Constitution Center awarded Justice Ginsburg the 2020 Liberty Medal by the National Constitution Center on September 17, 2020, just one day before her death.
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New Israel Fund Smashes Through $40M Goal for Endowment Fundraising, Raises Bar to $50M
15 October 2020The fundraising campaign was launched last year in conjunction with NIF’s 40th anniversary celebrations and focused on asking donors to consider including NIF in their estate plans.
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Ethiopian Israeli Activist Efrat Yerday Wins New Israel Fund Gallanter Prize
20 August 2020Efrat Yerday, teacher, activist, and chairwoman of the Association for Ethiopian Jews, wins the 2020 Gallanter Prize.
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