New israel fund criticism

How should Israel be discussed in the public sphere?

JCPA head, former New Israel Fund president debate the correct way to discuss Israel amid judicial reforms and mass protests.

 TALIA SASSON speaks with Dan Diker at the Democracy 2023 conference on Tuesday.
Jennifer Gorovitz, VP of the New Israel Fund

Federal court dismisses $110 million tax suit against New Israel Fund

Menashe Zalka

Soccer star withdraws from project over New Israel Fund backing

Likud MK Nir Barkat speaks at a NIF anti-racism event in Jerusalem

Is Barkat for or against the New Israel Fund?


VP of New Israel Fund: Country ‘was rejecting me’

Jennifer Gorovitz was questioned at Ben-Gurion Airport about her political activities

Jennifer Gorovitz, VP of the New Israel Fund

New Israel Fund vice president detained at Ben-Gurion airport

The CEO of the New Israel Fund said that they "will not accept an Israel that is for ultra-nationalists only," in response to the VP's hour-long interrogation.

AN EL AL Boeing 777 aircraft is seen at Ben-Gurion Airport

UN’s Ban calls NGO law ‘deeply troubling’

Netanyahu says law curbs "absurd" foreign intervention; NGOs lament harm to democracy.

European Union flags

New Israel Fund awards Breaking the Silence $20,000 consolation prize

Following the controversy, the New Israel Fund decided to raise the award money for the group, though in the end it raised nearly four times the original prize money.

Rivka Carmi

Would a Neturei Karta leader be named head of a Manhattan Jewish day school?

Boycotters must not be leaders of Jewish education.

The Manhattan skyline

Defaming Rabin

Presenting the former PM retroactively as if his views had any similarity with those espoused by the NIF and its foreign bankrollers is an insult to his memory and to the public’s intelligence.

Yitzhak Rabin

VIDEO: Left-wing group invokes Rabin to warn of rightist 'incitement'

New Israel Fund hits back at 'foreign agents' accusation hurled by right-wing group Im Tirzu.

The inciters

Nature abhors a vacuum

The lack of proper debate is allowing extremists to infiltrate the public arena.

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee head MK Tzachi Hanegbi (R), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, and opposition chief Isaac Herzog

Johanna Arbib named president of the Jerusalem Foundation

Internationally recognized business leader unanimously selected by foundation’s executive board.

Johanna Arbib speaks with ALEH’s Beit Yahalom residential center director, Jozef Lipszyc.

Keeping your eye on the ball and controlling your tongue

In every resource development activity, it is important to keep your eye on the ball, and by this I mean to maintain your focus on strengthening your relationship with donors and supporters.

EVEN THE most seasoned professionals sometimes forget to keep their eyes on the ball.’