Read NIF's latest press releases and statements. For press inquiries, please contact Elisheva Goldberg at: ‪917.740.4031 phone or press@nif.org.

• Statement following Cabinet Legislation Committee’s Approval of anti-democratic bills

  13 November 2011

  Statement following Cabinet Legislation Committee’s Approval of anti-democratic bills

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• Israel’s Democracy Under Attack: Analysis of Akunis & Kirshenbaum Bills

  8 November 2011

  This Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet will vote on the Akunis and Kirshenbaum bills, both of which would severely restrict or tax foreign funding for Israeli civil society, and which are the latest salvo in the war against human rights and social justice groups in Israel.  Prime Minister Netanyahu has already indicated his support for the bills, which are a naked attempt to silence voices critical of government policy that the right-wing governing coalition has deemed unacceptable.  This is yet another step in an unprecedented assault on law-abiding, internationally-recognized non-governmental organizations and poses a serious danger to Israeli democracy.

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• 1000 Rabbis Condemn Galilee Mosque Arson as New Israel Fund Coalition’s ‘Convoy’ Arrives to Express Support

  6 October 2011
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• Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and New Israel Fund Call on Israeli State Attorney to Investigate Anatot Attacks

  6 October 2011

  Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and the New Israel Fund call on the Israeli State Attorney to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation of the role of police officers in the Rosh Hashanah attacks, on Friday September 30, by residents of Anatot on activists visiting a Palestinian Israeli family. Twenty Israeli activists were injured in the attacks, including six who required hospitalization and nine who received medical treatment in clinics.

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• NIF Statement: Wikileaks on Anti-Democratic Legislation

  6 September 2011
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• Statement from Hedva Radanovitz

  5 September 2011

  I am concerned and disappointed about the leak of a February 2010 conversation through Wikileaks. The views I expressed (which were not reported accurately) were my own, not those of NIF, and were never intended to represent NIF’s positions. NIF is on record as dedicated to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.

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• Noam Shelef Joins New Israel Fund as Director of Digital Strategy

  25 July 2011

  Washington, DC. – The New Israel Fund (NIF) is pleased to announce that Noam Shelef will be assuming the newly created Director of Digital Strategy position on July 25, 2011. Shelef will oversee online strategy, develop NIF’s social media presence and grow online, mobile and social media opportunities that will extend New Israel Fund in the digital channels.

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• New Israel Fund Welcomes Knesset Rejection of “Investigation” Of Human Rights Groups

  20 July 2011
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• Progressive groups to march together for the first time in New York’s annual “Celebrate Israel Parade”

  24 May 2011

  Americans for Peace Now, Meretz-USA, New Israel Fund, and Rabbis for Human Rights-North America will march for the first time as a progressive cluster in the 2011 Celebrate Israel Parade in New York on Sunday, June 5th.

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• More (to put it charitably) Mistakes from NGO Monitor

  15 May 2011

  In a new statement, Dr. Gerald Steinberg and NGO Monitor dispute the indisputable – that last week, they put out a “report” about Coalition of Women for Peace as an NIF-supported organization, despite having been personally informed by our top official in Israel, Rachel Liel, that that is not the case.

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