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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Idit will join NIF in late fall 2025, bringing her unparalleled leadership to advance NIF’s mission of building a more just, inclusive, and democratic Israel. Welcome, Idit! @iditklein.bsky.social

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

“The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a globally recognised organisation that classifies the severity of food insecurity and malnutrition, found that three key thresholds for famine had been met, signalling a major escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza."

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UN-backed experts declare famine in and around Gaza City

IPC says famine is ‘entirely man-made’ and immediate response is needed or avoidable deaths will soar

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

NIF is appalled by the announcement by Israel’s security cabinet that it will go along with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s scheme to fully re-occupy Gaza. We stand with all those standing up to this government and demanding a better future for all. Read the full statement: www.nif.org/press-releas...

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NIF CEO: “We are Appalled by the Plan to Reoccupy Gaza” • New Israel Fund

In response to the news that the Israeli government has decided to re-occupy Gaza, New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement: NIF is appalled by the announcement by Israel’s…

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Mickey Gitzin, NIF Director in Israel, on the real purpose of the war: "When a sitting cabinet minister says, 'All of Gaza will be Jewish' or that the Strip must be 'erased'—those are not slips of the tongue. They are warnings." www.nif.org/blog/true-pu...

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The True Purpose of this War • New Israel Fund

Things are shifting in Israel right now. Netanyahu has said, explicitly, that he intends to re-occupy Gaza, and in a cabinet meeting today, the government is expected to approve his plan. This…

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

As reporter Emmanuelle Elbaz-Phelps explains in a recent episode of the New York Times podcast, the Daily, cracks may be starting to form in the wall Israeli journalists have built around their reporting.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Nearly a thousand people gathered yesterday outside of Trump Hotel in New York City to call for an end to this terrible war, to mass starvation, to Israelis in captivity, to overwhelming destruction. NIF was so proud to join so many in the Jewish community to say loudly and clearly: let Gaza live!

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

ICYMI Adi Ronen Argov, winner of our 2025 Truth to Power Award, spoke with Haaretz about what it’s been like to document—in painful, gut-wrenching detail—the impact of this war on those who she calls the “forcibly involved," including and especially, children. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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'The children haunt me at night': A protest forces Israelis to face kids killed in Gaza

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The time to act is now. Join us on Monday, August 4 at 6:30 p.m. across from Columbus Circle as Jews say no to starvation in Gaza.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Mickey Gitzin, Director of NIF in Israel, on the real purpose of this war.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Proud to stand with T’ruah rabbis who were outside of the Israeli Consulate in NYC on Monday protesting the starvation of Gazans. ✊

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Today we are mourning Awdah Al-Hathaleen, a fearless Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta. Awdah was murdered yesterday by Israeli extremist settler Yinon Levi. We owe it to Awdah to keep fighting for accountability and justice. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank

Israeli settler Yinon Levi, whom Trump removed from US sanctions list, arrested after death of Awdah Hathaleen

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

“People debate starving or deporting Gaza’s residents on television as if these are legitimate options,” said Michael Sfard, an Israeli human rights lawyer. “But a different voice is trying to penetrate the almost unified public discourse." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

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‘Revenge Is Not a Policy’: Israelis Voice Dissent Against the War in Gaza

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Hundreds marched through the streets of central Tel Aviv last night carrying sacks of flour and photos of Palestinian children in Gaza in a protest organized by Standing Together. Video courtesy of @standing-together.bsky.social and @alonlee.bsky.social

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

ACRI's Executive Director Noa Sattath: "We need a combination of forces to extricate ourselves from the moral abyss into which we have tumbled." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

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In the not-so-distant future, Israel will have to reckon with its war crimes in Gaza | Opinion

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Hungry people waiting for food should not be shot at. Period. May this violence come to an end, may all the hostages be released, and may Gazan civilians—mothers, fathers, grandparents, children and babies—be allowed respite from this nightmare they have been living. secure.nif.org/k9Q2aD1WXkil...

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New Israel Fund is raising urgent funds for food aid in Gaza

Use the secure form to make your tax-deductible contribution. Thank you in advance for your generosity.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Libby Lenkinski, vice president for public engagement at NIF and founder and president of Albi, has three pro-tips for talking about Israel now and always. Watch the video for more.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

As we've said all along: this war is not about keeping Israelis safe. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...

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How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power

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Partners for Progressive Israel @partners4israel.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

TODAY at 11am in Washington DC! Be there if you can to send this concise message to Bibi and DJT ahead of their meeting. Together with @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social, @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social, @truahrabbis.bsky.social, @newisraelfund.bsky.social, and @unxeptable.bsky.social.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

As Trump and Netanyahu meet today in the White House, and those who care about the future of all people in the Middle East hope against hope for news of a Gaza ceasefire, Aaron David Miller, NIF board member, reflects on why he supports NIF. We are, he says, "Idealists without illusions."

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This week, NIF approved an emergency grant for Rabbis for Human Rights to bring water, food, medical equipment, and fuel to Palestinian communities in the West Bank that have been under siege since the start of the war with Iran.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

As Iran responds to Israel’s attacks, the NIF community around the world is feeling deeply anxious and concerned for our colleagues, friends and family in Israel, Jewish and Palestinian. for innocents in Iran and throughout the region. We pray that the voices of peace and reconciliation will prevail

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

NIF’s Shira Ben Sasson: “The safe return of Edan Alexander from the depths of Hamas captivity is a moment of profound relief and joy. Our hearts are with the Alexander family in their reunion—his return to them is a light in a time of darkness. www.timesofisrael.com/for-families...

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For families, joy, despair, frustration over coming release of hostage Edan Alexander

Families decry government for being left out of loop of talks; Netanyahu’s office: Israel has committed to safe corridor for Alexander’s release, but not to truce

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Last week some celebrated Yom HaAtzmaut as others mourned the Nakba (Catastrophe). In both cases, says NIF Froman Fellow Hannah Lybik, the Flood story in Genesis offers a pathway for understanding and holding how one moment might be experienced in such drastically different ways.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Mohsen Mahdawi, a permanent legal resident of the United States, and peace advocate, was just released from detention. Here's what he said once he was released: “They arrested me. What’s the reason? Because I raised my voice, and I said no to war, yes to peace." We agree. Yes to peace.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Every year, we support an alternative Memorial Day ceremony that honors the grief of Israelis & Palestinians who mourn their loved ones who have fallen in this conflict. This land has soaked up too many tears and too much blood. But out of this endless darkness, we all have a choice: to choose hope.

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טקס יום הזיכרון המשותף ה-20 | The 20th Joint Memorial Ceremony | مراسم يوم الذكرى المشترك ال-20

YouTube video by Combatants for Peace

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

As the leading organization dedicated to defending civil liberties in Israel, we firmly oppose any action that claims to defend Israel by actively infringing on those same civil liberties here at home.

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Jewish Groups and Synagogues Defend Students Detained by ICE

More than two dozen are joining a legal effort to free a Tufts University student the Trump administration is trying to deport because of her pro-Palestinian views.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A message from Prof. David Myers, NIF's immediate past board president, about Moshen Mahdawi: "Coming off of two days of Passover, I was horrified to discover that my friend, Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi, was arrested. (1/6)

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@thomaslfriedman.bsky.social in the New York Times explains just how in sync Trump and Netanyahu are, quoting NIF Director in Israel, Mickey Gitizin: "Netanyahu’s aim today is 'dismantling all the essential components of democracy,' wrote Mickey Gitzin.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/o...

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Opinion | Trump and Netanyahu Steer Toward an Ugly World, Together

The president and the Israeli prime minister are following the same track toward autocratic government and an abandonment of ideals.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It it time for political solutions, not military ones. It's time for this war to end, for all the hostages to come home, and for Gazans to rebuild. But that's not Prime Minister Netanyahu's plan. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Israel expands military operations to ‘seize large areas’ of Gaza

Israel’s defense minister said the military is taking control of significant territory to establish security zones.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Yesterday, the Israeli government declared war on its citizens. The main casualties will be Gazans, but this renewed war is first and foremost against the state, the people who live in it, its institutions, and its values.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Last night, the Netanyahu government ended the ceasefire, and began, once again, to drop bombs on Gaza, reportedly killing close to 500 people so far. But he is not the one who pays the price—it is, instead, every hostage, every Gazan, and every Israeli.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This bookstore is a place where everyone is free to learn and to speak. Shutting it down, and arresting its owners is of a piece with the Netanyahu government’s efforts to silence dissenting voices in Israel, especially when they are Palestinian. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Every child deserves to grow up in safety. Every person deserves to live in safety. Our hearts are broken yet again.

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Shiri, Kfir, Ariel, Oded: These are the hostages killed in captivity and returned by Hamas

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jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Our hearts are heavy with grief. Kfir and Ariel deserved a childhood like any other, filled with love and learning. Shiri, to see her beautiful children grow up. And Oded, to live the rest of his life surrounded by family. There is no time to waste. Every hostage home.

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Slain hostages set for return tomorrow are Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, Oded Lifshitz

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Settler violence has displaced Palestinian residents of the West Bank village of Zanuta —twice. NIF grantee Haqel—the Alliance for the Protection of Human Rights took their case to court, and Israel's High Court ruled that the state must ensure their safe return by next week.

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High Court: Israel must enable Palestinians driven out by settlers to return to village

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The proposal we heard from President Trump, as he stood next to Prime Minister Netanyahu, to forcibly expel all of Gaza’s residents and bring the territory under US “ownership” normalizes the Kahanist idea of “transfer”--that we can force people out of their homeland and do what we want with it.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Must Watch: The Bibi Files—the film that Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t want you to see. Watch online now until February 17 through NIF for free on on.jolt.film/3Q2t8Gj

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Read the full statement here: www.nif.org/press-releas...

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Israel’s Supreme Court affirmed the illegality of political interference in police investigations, despite Ben-Gvir’s efforts to do so. This is a victory for @acrionline.bsky.social, who petitioned against this law, and a victory for safeguarding democratic norms.

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

On November 24, the Israeli government made a decision—approved by Prime Minister Netanyahu—that requires any government-funded body to refrain from communicating with or placing advertisements in Israel’s newspaper of record, @haaretzcom.bsky.social

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

There are only a few more hours to give to justice, democracy, equality in Israel before 2024 comes to an end. Support Israelis and Palestinians on the ground who look at the present reality and dare to imagine a better future. Join us. Give. secure.nif.org/onlineaction....

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

NIF on the death of President Jimmy Carter. May his memory be a blessing. www.nif.org/press-releas...

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

It's time for the war to end and for the hostages to come home. That’s why we signed onto a letter calling for “an immediate cessation of hostilities in Gaza and the release of the Israeli hostages followed by diplomatic action to reach comprehensive regional peace and security.”

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A 33-year-old man from northern Israel who was arrested in November. He has not been charged with any crime. Yet he is STILL in detention. With the help of Adalah, he is appealing to Israel's Supreme Court to be released. Read the story. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Arab detainee appeals for equal treatment after Jewish detention without trial nixed

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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This year, the BBC’s annual list recognizing the 100 Most Influential Women in the World included 3 incredible Israeli activists. 🧵

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