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Exposing the Discriminatory Justice System
4 August 2022NIF grantee, Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) released a report finding that in cases of incitement to violence, the Israeli justice system has been harsh on Arab Israelis and lenient on Jewish Israelis.
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Combating the Exclusion of Women in Public
7 July 2022After a petition by two NIF grantees, Israel Railways was forced to pay a settlement in court to a woman who was made to transfer to a different train car due to her gender.
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Combatting Erasure of Women From Public Spaces
25 May 2022After significant pressure, an Israeli bus company ended a discriminatory policy to remove pictures of women from bus ads when traveling through ultra-Orthodox areas.
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Combating the Erasure of Women by Religious Extremists
9 December 2021NIF grantee Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) successfully petitioned for the city of Jerusalem to tackle the religious vandalism attempting to erase women from public spaces.
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Demanding Adoption Rights for LGBTQ Parents
5 August 2021NIF Grantee the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court in a challenge to anti-LGBTQ adoption policy in Israel.
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Bridge the Divide: Building Jewish-Arab Partnership In a Time of Crisis
3 June 2021Jewish-Arab partnership is critical to Israel’s moral fabric and to a democratic future based on equality for all its citizens. In the wake of the recent crisis, NIF is redoubling our investing in initiatives that foster Jewish-Arab cooperation, combat racism and extremism, and advance public legitimacy for Jewish-Arab partnership, and which bring representatives of the Palestinian community in Israel into local and national decision-making.
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Restoring Pluralistic Jewish Education in Israel’s Schools
22 April 2021In a victory for liberal and secular Judaism in Israel, the Supreme Court struck down an attempt to defund government support for pluralistic activities in public school.
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Civil Society is Laying the Blueprint for Social Change
4 March 2021At times it can feel that victories for equality are few and far between and that the destination of a truly just society is a long ways off. This week is an exception.
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Bringing Holiday Gifts to the Asylum Community
3 March 2021The Reform Movement in Israel marked Purim with traditional mishloach manot, or gift baskets, to asylum seekers who have faced severe economic crisis as a result of the pandemic.
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Turning Progressive Values into Policy
9 December 2020Shatil launched a five-part workshop to train progressive organizations to influence policy during this politically tumultuous period.
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