What has NIF accomplished since it was established in 1979?
The NIF family has been the agent of Israel’s most significant social change since its founding in 1979. We have won the most important legal and legislative victories that have improved the lives of tens of thousands of Israelis, opening doors to women, non-Orthodox Jews, Arab Israeli citizens, the LBGT community, immigrants and the disabled. Working at the cutting edge of sometimes-contentious social change, we have placed previously neglected issues on the public agenda and changed the consensus on some of Israel’s most difficult social issues. Thirty years ago, Israel’s NGO sector consisted of small groups that were mostly partisan and allied with political parties, and charitable organizations dominated by traditional cultural, educational and religious institutions. Today there are more than 27,000 citizen-action groups, hundreds of which are helped each year by the New Israel Fund. NIF has also influenced the principles and practice of other philanthropies, resulting in addition
