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The New Israel Fund is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit philanthropic organization in the United States. The New Israel Fund's headquarters are located in New York City. [1] The New Israel Fund also has offices in Jerusalem, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Sydney, and Basel. [2] [22]
Daniel J. Sokatch [1] [2] (born April 15, 1968) is an American activist, and the CEO of the New Israel Fund since 2009. Sokatch has been recognized for his leadership and influence, and he has been included multiple times in The Jewish Daily Forward's "Forward 50," an annual list of influential Jewish decision-makers, activists, and opinion-shapers.
A 2010 campaign by Im Tirtzu against the New Israel Fund included cartoon images of Chazan with a horn coming out of her forehead - the word "horn" in Hebrew also meaning "fund." Chazan served as the lay leader of New Israel Fund at the time. Haaretz described the campaign as "savage." [6] In 2010, Chazan was fired by The Jerusalem Post.
By the early 2010s, Dabush was a community organizer for the New Israel Fund. [1] He later became the programs director for Shatil, the NIF's action wing in Israel. [5] In 2014, he was a co-founder of the Movement for the Future of the Western Negev. [1] [5] Dabush has run for a Knesset position as part of Meretz, a left-wing Israeli party. [5]
Upon returning to Israel after working in the United States, Gitzin was hired to establish Be Free Israel, a coalition of left-wing organizations active in religious and state matters. [1] [4] In 2012, Gitzin protested draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Israelis. [5] In 2015 and 2016, Gitzin was a member of the Tel Aviv Municipal Council. [6] [7]
[3] [2] She is a board member of the New Israel Fund. [7] Elsana Alh'jooj founded PLEDJ | Canada in 2020, a research and training non-profit that networks global indigenous and marginalized knowledges to mobilize social justice and address international conflict. The organization amplifies local leadership by strengthening the relationship ...
Im Tirtzu (Hebrew: אם תרצו, lit. 'If you will it') is a Zionist [6] [7] non-governmental organization based in Israel. [1] Its name is derived from an epigraph appended to the frontispiece of Theodor Herzl's novel Altneuland, 'if you wish it, it is no fairy-tale,' rendered into modern Hebrew in Nahum Sokolow's translation in 1903, as Im tirtzu ein zo agadah.
He was characterized by Daniel Sokatch of the New Israel Fund as "the father of our Jewish social justice movement." [3] Fein is the founder of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, a Jewish hunger-relief organization started in 1985. [4] Fein helped establish Americans for Peace Now. [5]