Impact

An initiative by the digital organizing group Zazim – Community Action convinced Israeli pilots to refuse to staff flights forcibly deporting people seeking asylum in Israel. More than 130 pilots and airline crew members responded to the call. This was one part of the successful campaign to pressure the Israeli government to end its forced-deportation program.

The Israeli police recently hired 30 new Ethiopian-Israeli police officers. Officers will also soon begin to wear body cameras to record their actions during demonstrations. These moves are a direct result of the work of the Ethiopian-Israeli organization Tebeka – Justice & Equality for Ethiopian Israelis, which started engaging with the police three years ago in the wake of brutal crackdowns on Ethiopian-Israeli protests.

Basic services like electricity are not provided to some Bedouin citizens of the Negev, who live in villages that are not recognized by the government. They subsist with hazardous, unreliable, and noisy power generators. Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel has succeeded, through litigation, to force the government to connect some of these communities to the power grid.

For years, right-wing extremists engaged in “Price Tag” attacks on Palestinians, Christian and Muslim holy sites, and even the IDF. In 2016, the Israeli government finally began locating perpetrators and seeking criminal indictments. In June 2017, a prominent West Bank rabbi was indicted for incitement to violence for articles he authored praising perpetrators of these hate crimes.

The news that hospitals were segregating Jewish and Arab women at maternity wards galvanized the members of Zazim, an organization incubated and launched by NIF, to pressure hospitals to end the practice. Among other victories, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, also an NIF grantee, was invited to run anti-racism trainings for hospital staff.