March 16th 2010
In a rare public outcry against so-called honor killings, more than 500 Arab Isareli women and men demonstrated last month in Nazareth against the murder of women in their community. The largest contingent of women came from the Negev, thanks to the work of Hind el Sana, a lobbyist in SHATIL’s Bedouin Women’s [...]

March 16th 2010
The government is doing its utmost to destroy Israel’s open spaces and increase its social gaps in one fell swoop as it presses the passage of a broad and comprehensive planning reform law on the first reading this week with little time allotted for public input.
The law, pushed for by Prime Minister Netanyahu, [...]

February 2nd 2010
Talya Lev grew up in the U.S. and Germany, made Aliyah to Israel at age 18, served in the Liaison office of IDF intelligence, and studied at Bar Ilan University. During her studies she became more exposed to the religious world and decided to adopt an Orthodox lifestyle. A few years later she [...]

February 2nd 2010
To prepare young leaders to deal with the challenges of a multi cultural world, SHATIL recently collaborated with the British Council to train 27 young Jewish and Arab Israelis to become “Intercultural Navigators.”
As described in their web site (http://interculturalnavigators.britishcouncil.org/), Intercultural Navigators are “passionate young people with a desire to make a positive contribution [...]

Dear Friends,
 
I want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for standing up for the New Israel Fund and our family of organizations in the face of the latest smear campaign. In recent days we have witnessed an encouraging wave of community and public support.  A growing number of leading Israelis [...]