• Website: www.nif.org
  • Founded in 1979.
  • NIF mission statement focuses on three areas of activity in Israel: civil and human rights, promoting religious tolerance and pluralism, and closing the social and economic gaps in Israeli society.
  • "Since its founding in 1979, NIF has granted more than $200 million to more than 800 organizations in Israel," (Annual Report for 2006) including $40 million from the Ford Foundation for "peace and social justice" programs, following extensive criticism of Ford's support for the NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban Conference.
  • One third of NIF annual funding goes to political groups active in the conflict under the label of "civil rights"; such as Adalah, Mossawa, the Arab Human Rights Association (HRA), Hamoked and others whose agendas focus on seeking to end the status of Israel as a Jewish state.
  • NIF has also funded fringe groups such as ICAHD and radicals such as Shamai Leibowitz, who promote boycotts and the Durban strategy of demonization, and is aligned with "muzzlewatch"
  • For NGO Monitor's latest report on NIF, click  here
  • New fund to be founded as alternative to New Israel Fund, read here.