Impact

NIF and its action arm Shatil are establishing a new program to promote inclusive and equitable recovery efforts for all communities affected by October 7 and strengthen Jewish-Arab partnership. The program will support new progressive voices and initiatives in the Negev, primarily in the Gaza Envelope, through NIF grantmaking and Shatil capacity-building, and involve diverse local leaders in rehabilitation efforts.

The work of FakeReporter, which combats malicious activity online and in messaging platforms, has become even more crucial in the past year. In the wake of October 7, FakeReporter teamed up with members of Israel’s tech community to create “Digital Dome,” a central address for reporting content that incites to violence, amplifies racism, or disseminates lies.

NIF grantees including Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) successfully petitioned the court to increase aid to Gaza. When aid trucks were attacked by extremists, Omdim Beyachad-Naqef Ma’an (Standing Together) helped mobilize activists to defend aid convoys. And NIF’s special campaign raised over $1.3 million to support World Central Kitchen and the International Rescue Committee’s humanitarian work in Gaza.

NIF has created a new program to promote a peaceful, inclusive vision for Israel’s future. This work entails supporting think tanks that draft policy proposals and diplomatic initiatives advancing peace; blocking the further entrenchment of the occupation; preventing the expulsion of Palestinian communities in the West Bank and thwarting settler violence; and funding research and campaigns to shift public opinion about the need for a negotiated resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

NIF has redoubled efforts to strengthen Jewish-Arab partnership and solidarity. Grants to Omdim Beyachad and the Haifa Social Development Committee have supported initiatives to minimize tensions between Jewish and Arab citizens in mixed cities like Haifa, Lod, and Acre. Omdim Beyachad’s “solidarity networks” of Jewish and Arab volunteers who work together in neighborhoods across the country to respond to instances of violence or discrimination have grown to include over 6,300 volunteers in 20 localities.

Since the start of the war, security prisoners in Israel have suffered from starvation, abuse, inhumane living conditions, lack of medical treatment, and other rights violations. PHRI, Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and other grantees have exposed these abuses, including the number of detainees and prisoners who have died in Israeli custody. A High Court petition to shut down the notorious Sde Teiman detention center led to the transfer of most of the prisoners to other facilities. ACRI and other groups continue to call for the detention center to be shut down and to create public awareness of the violations.