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EVENTS
2006
NIF Trips to
Israel
Heritage
of Pride March
New
York, NY - Sunday, June
25, 2006
NIF IN THE
NEWS
Defense
Minister orders review of separation fence route
Ha'aretz - June 19, 2006
Transport
Ministry: Solution found to end 'Jews only' flights
Ha'aretz - June
14, 2006
We're Not About
Poking Israel in the
Eye
By Bryan
Schwartzman, Jewish Exponent, Philadelphia, PA - June 1,
2006
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NIF Outside
Israel
NIF New
York
hosted its 11th Annual New Generations
Benefit on Wednesday, June 14, at the Maritime Hotel's Hiro
Ballroom. Attended by nearly 400 people, the benefit raised
$116,000 for NIF's work building civil society in
Israel.
From
left: Shuli Dichter, Ali Haidar and Tamar
Miller, co-director, NIF/New
England
NIF and JCRC co-sponsored a panel on "The
Trouble with Equality" at Temple Beth Zion in Brookline , MA
, on May 24. Long-time NIF supporter and
former NIF Board member Arthur Waldstein introduced the panel, which
included presentations by Shuli Dichter and Ali Haider, co-executive
directors of NIF grantee Sikkuy, The Association for Civic Equality
in Israel . Seventy people
attended this first public discussion in Boston on the push for equality for
Israel's Arab
citizens.
On May 22, Aaron Back, director of the Ford
Foundation Israel Fund, spoke in Los Angeles at
the home of Sara and Bob Cannon (Sara is a member of NIF's
International Council) to a group of NIF donors about the $20
million 5-year gift of the Ford Foundation to NIF. Aaron
described the origin of the grant, why Ford selected NIF to be its
partner in Israel and his top 10 list of the 10 reasons NIF is one
of the most important and effective organizations on the Israeli
scene.
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