Young Leadership & Education Coordinator Zak Witus is energized after returning from the Global Activism Fellowship trip to Israel.

“We have on this land, that which makes life worth living,” wrote the late Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish. These words, in English translation, adorn the walls of the Masafer Yatta home of Palestinian activist Basel Adraa whom I visited last week as a 2023 Naomi Chazan Global Activism Fellow of the New Israel Fund (NIF).

As the forced transfer of more than 1,000 Palestinians in Masafer Yatta looms, NIF grantees are campaigning to stop the expulsion.

NIF grantee Breaking the Silence led a solidarity visit to Palestinian residents of Hebron last week which was turned away by Border Police.

The report documents the experiences of IDF reserve soldiers serving in COGAT.

Hundreds of Israeli activists traveled to the West Bank last week to plant trees in solidarity with the Palestinian village of Burin after extremist settlers targeted olive farmers and members of NIF grantee, Rabbis for Human Rights.

The Jerusalem Municipality demolished the Salhiya family home in Sheikh Jarrah in the middle of the night, leaving 15 residents cold and homeless.

Last month, Shatil launched an incredible new training course for Jewish and Arab leaders in social change organizations.

NIF grantees faced censorship as they attempted to present their findings on Jewish Extremist Violence in the West Bank to a Knesset Committee.

Following a a major settler attack on Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills, NIF grantees and other human rights organizations organized a march to protest the violence and support Palestinians’ water rights.