Read NIF's latest press releases and statements. For press inquiries, please contact Elisheva Goldberg at: 917.740.4031 phone or press@nif.org.
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NGO Monitor Attacks New Israel Fund Based On Information it Knew to be Wrong
12 May 2011Washington, DC— NGO Monitor today knowingly published false information in its newsletter that mistakenly identifies New Israel Fund as a funder of the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP).
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NIF Statement on Itamar Murders
4 April 2011The New Israel Fund is deeply pained over the murder of the Fogel Family in Itamar and vehemently opposes any justification of such an inconceivable crime. Murder is the most extreme violation of our most basic human rights – the right to live. Violence against citizens is illegal and completely counterproductive to legitimate democratic processes.
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NIF Statement on Goldstone
4 April 2011Since its establishment, the New Israel Fund has striven to strengthen both Israel and its democratic character. Following “Operation Cast Lead,” the human rights organizations supported by NIF called for the Israeli government to set up an independent commission of inquiry. Had the government agreed, this would have prevented the establishment of the Goldstone Commission.
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Statement from New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch: Knesset Probe of Human Rights Organizations Fails to Garner Majority
22 February 2011Following the postponement – and likely failure – of the Knesset inquiry into the activities of Israel’s human rights community, the New Israel Fund released this statement from CEO Daniel Sokatch
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Statement From New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch: “Israel Is On A Dangerous Path”
6 January 2011The New Israel Fund today released this statement from CEO Daniel Sokatch regarding the Knesset “parliamentary inquiry” into the activities of Israel’s human rights community: A healthy democracy respects and protects human rights. It does not engage in continual attempts to put its internationally-respected human rights organizations out of business.
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Katsav’s Conviction a Win for Women’s Rights and The Rule of Law
30 December 2010Washington: The New Israel Fund (NIF) praised today’s conviction of former Israeli president Moshe Katsav for rape and sexual harassment as both a victory for women’s rights and a validation of Israel’s democratic institutions.
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Nearly 1000 of World’s Rabbis Urge Israeli Colleagues to Reject Racist Religious Ruling
16 December 2010NEW YORK— Nearly 1000 rabbis from every Jewish religious denomination sent a letter to their Israeli colleagues this week condemning the recent rabbinical ruling forbidding Jews in Israel to rent or sell homes to Arabs as a “painful distortion of our tradition” and “ Chillul HaShem, a desecration of God’s name.”
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New Israel Fund Says “YES” to Prime Minister Netanyahu
7 December 2010The New Israel Fund, the leading organization committed to equality and democracy for all Israelis, today issued the following statement.
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NIF Response on BDS
18 November 2010Since the policy that Mr. Goldberg quotes was written, we at the New Israel Fund have made clear, not once but many times, that we do not support global BDS nor will we support organizations with BDS programs. The original policy left room for the discretion we require as funders, the kind of discretion that allows us to engage in dialogue with an important organization that signs one letter supporting divestment rather than summarily dismissing them.
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Daniel Sokatch named to ‘Forward 50’
4 November 2010Last week, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch was named one of the FORWARD NEWSPAPER’S “FORWARD 50,” an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish decision-makers. This is his fourth appearance on the list, having also received the honor in 2002, 2005 and 2008.
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