NIF UK William Frankel Social Justice Fellowship 2010

New Israel Fund is looking for our community's leaders of social change.

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In Association with the JC

Israel Question Time

Monday 15 February 2010

Belsize Square Synagogue

51 Belsize Square , NW3 4HX

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New Israel Fund Benefit Event @ Jewish Book Week

Sunday 7 March 2010

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New Israel Fund @

Limmud Scotland, Glasgow,

Sunday 14 Feb 2010

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NEWS

Message from Ellen Goldberg, NIF UK Executive Director

It’s wonderful to hear good news from Israel – another start-up company’s cutting-edge gadget on the market, another Nobel Prize winner, an Israeli field hospital treating critically injured children in Haiti.

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Jerusalem Judge Orders ACRI Head and Other Activists Released Without Charges

Hagai El-Ad and 16 other human rights activists were released without charges in Jerusalem on Sunday 17th January. El-Ad, Executive Director of veteran NIF grantee Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and the other activists, were arrested and held for 36 hours after participating in a peaceful protest against the eviction of Arabs in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, so that the properties could be handed over to Jewish settlers.

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Ending Segregation on the West Bank’s Roads

Ibrahim Samara’s business repairing window blinds was dealt a devastating blow in 2002 when the Israeli army decided to prohibit West Bank Palestinians from using Route 443 between Jerusalem and Modiin. The 42 year-old resident of the village of Beit Ur Al Fauqa, which is adjacent to the highway he cannot use, is one of 55,000 Palestinians living in villages near the highway whose lives have been blighted by the ban.

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Ending Gender Segregation on Israel's Buses

A leading rabbi has asked Veolia Transportation, which operates bus lines in Tiberias, to introduce a gender segregated bus line in the city. The rabbi cites the existence of lines in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak as justification for similar services in Tiberias.

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New Ad Campaign for Hotline on Gender Segregated Buses

As the Minister of Transportation Israel Katz has again delayed his decision on gender segregated bus lines, NIF has funded and organized an ad campaign for a hotline on the sides of the segregated buses together with a coalition of grantees including Kolech – Religious Women's Forum.

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Big Brother Contestant Who Supports Palestinian Rights Draws Hatred and Threats

Edna Kanti, a volunteer with NIF grantee Machsom Watch, is participating in the latest series of Israel's most popular reality TV show "Big Brother." Kanti chose to appear on the program and was selected by the producers to promote her experiences watching the hardships suffered by Palestinians at West Bank IDF checkpoints – an issue rarely aired on prime time TV. However, the participants in the "Big Brother" house, voted against her showing maps of the West Bank with checkpoints and the security barrier.

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