Bedouin women professionals advance policy change and make their voices heard.

NIF and Shatil are supporting and convening organizations working with Negev Bedouin communities to promote their rights amidst threats by the new government.

Residents of unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev and activists are working together to provide transportation to their polling locations.

NIF grantees are on the frontlines of the fight against systematic barriers Bedouin citizens face when they move to — or back to— unrecognized villages in Israel.

NIF’s action arm Shatil and NIF grantee Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights teamed up to assist the Bedouin town of Lakyia in securing long-term infrastructure and economic development.

A group of NIF grantees successfully petitioned Israel’s Ministry of Transportation to install bus stops near unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev, providing much-needed public transit access.

Following a violent crack-down on Bedouin protestors in the Negev, social change organizations call for a halt in the encroaching and provocative practice of planting trees in the Negev near or on Bedouin land.

Through a series of accessible training workshops and networking opportunities, NIF’s action-arm Shatil is helping fortify Arab Israeli civil society organizations with the skills they need to succeed.

Sliman al-Hawashla gets recognition for his decades of work with Shatil, NIF’s action arm in Israel, promoting Bedouin rights in the Negev-Naqab.