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New Israel Fund Responds to COVID-19 with Strategy to Make Israel a More “Just, Democratic, and Equal Society”
5 May 2020
The New Israel Fund (NIF) today announced its Crisis Action Plan, a set of strategies to help all people in Israel weather the coronavirus crisis and work to ensure that the country emerges a more just, democratic, and equal society.
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An Emergency Government and the Path Ahead
23 April 2020After sixteen months of political turmoil, there appears to be an emergency government. But the challenges to democratic norms and institutions are in no way behind us.
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Protecting the Rights of Asylum Seekers
22 April 2020
By law, the Israeli government confiscates part of asylum seekers’ paychecks. NIF grantees are trying to change that.
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Protecting Pregnant Workers
22 April 2020
Israeli government reverses crisis regulations which allowed layoffs of pregnant women.
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WATCH: Protecting Vulnerable in the Time of COVID-19
6 April 2020
NIF grantee Physicians for Human Rights – Israel the COVID-19 is protecting the rights and wellbeing of Israel’s most marginalized communities amid the pandemic.
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Securing Medical Services for Israel’s Periphery
1 April 2020
Shatil successfully pressured the Health Ministry to provide adequate medical equipment for Israel’s racially diverse periphery.
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Fighting for Equal Access to Emergency Services
1 April 2020
NIF grantees are working to ensure that Palestinians residents of East Jerusalem have access to emergency medical services.
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Making Coronavirus Updates Accessible in Arabic
1 April 2020
Israel’s Health Ministry provides more coronavirus information in Arabic following pressure from Adalah and Zazim.
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Speaking Out Against Home Demolitions
1 April 2020
Network of Israeli organizations campaign against the continued demolition of unrecognized Bedouin villages.
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WATCH: Israeli Civil Society in the Time of COVID-19
23 March 2020
In the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, Israeli activists moved quickly to ensure that the government’s responses to the pandemic would keep people safe, address the needs of all people, and uphold democratic norms.
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