New Israel Fund

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The New Israel Fund (NIF) is a fund that is set up as the result of a philanthropic partnership of Israelis, North Americans and Europeans to provide financial and technical support to hundreds of national and community-based organizations.

Its primary objective is to strengthen Israel's democracy, and to promote freedom, justice, and equality for all Israel's citizens. These principles are guaranteed in Israel's Declaration of Independence and a central element of Jewish tradition. Today, it focuses on fighting for civil and human rights, promoting religious tolerance and pluralism, and closing the social and economic gaps in Israeli society, especially those among Jews and Arabs. As one sing of its interest in outreach, the advertisements the NIF places online are trilingual in the two official languages of Israel (Hebrew and Arabic) as well as in English.

Though the NIF eschews politics, it has come under criticism from NGO Monitor, an Israeli non-governmental organization with the stated aim of monitoring other non-governmental organizations, for its support of groups that NGO Monitor considers to have an anti-Zionist agenda.^[1]