Israel $2,810,000

A. New Israel Fund (NIF): $2,652,000

1. For general support of the New Israel Fund, which seeks to strengthen democracy and promote social justice in Israel in four primary issue areas: Civil and Human Rights; Social and Economic Justice; Religious Pluralism; and Promoting the Rights of Palestinian Citizens of Israel. ($200,000)

2. For NIF’s capacity building program, SHATIL, which provides technical assistance to social-change organizations, specifically on organizational management, resource development, advocacy, media relations, and coalition building. ($200,000)

3. For NIF’s capacity building program, SHATIL, to provide technical assistance in five key areas: Leadership Training and Technical Assistance to Ethiopian Immigrants; Democratic Leadership Course for Immigrants from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS); Advocacy for Educational Equality for the Ethiopian Community; Equal Access Initiative; and Low-Income Neighborhoods. ($340,000)

4. For NIF’s Commonwealth of Independent States Immigrant Democracy/Pluralism Pool, which supports grassroots organizations that increase CIS immigrants' exposure to democratic and pluralistic values so as to further promote and advance these values within their community. ($136,000)

5. For NIF’s Special Addition Pool for Support of Commonwealth of Independent States Immigrant NGOs, which will provide supplementary institution building allocations for CIS immigrant NGOs that receive small project grants from NIF. ($100,000)

6. For NIF’s Special Grants Pool for the Improved Integration of Ethiopian Immigrants, which will contribute to the effective integration of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel. ($30,000)

7. For NIF’s Negev Early Childhood Education Network, a SHATIL initiative designed to strengthen support for federally funded preschools for Bedouin children ages 3-4. ($25,000)

8. For NIF’s Arab Initiative, which supports Palestinian Israeli organizations that are working to effect system-wide change in the areas of land, housing, planning and education. ($23,000)

9. For NIF’s Grants Pool for Ethiopian Educational Initiatives, which provides support for special projects, action research, coalitions, technical assistance and emergency needs that further the integration of the Ethiopian community in Israel. ($1,000)

10. For NIF’s Core Grants program, which provides institution building grants to social change organizations working to strengthen democracy and promote social justice in Israel. ($623,000) NIF used Moriah funds to fulfill its commitments to the following organizations:

• Ethiopian Immigrants Projects
• South Wing to Zion: Association for Ingathering and Absorption of Ethiopian Jewry, which facilitates Ethiopian immigration and absorption into Israeli society and supports Ethiopians' efforts to realize their legal rights ($16,000).
• Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Immigrant Projects
• Association for Mixed Family Rights' Protection, which empowers members of mixed families by promoting their civil rights and supporting them in their identity development and integration into Israeli society. ($25,000)
• Immigrants for Successful Absorption in the Negev, which aids immigrants through five support centers on issues including public housing, national insurance, education, and fair treatment on the job. ($10,000)
• One Plus One - Association of Immigrant Youth, which operates leadership centers and trains immigrant youth counselors to run informal educational activities that facilitate participants' integration into Israeli society. ($20,000)
• Palestinian Israeli Projects
• Adalah, which employs a variety of legal strategies to fight for the rights and status of Palestinian Israelis. ($50,000)
  
• Al-Ahali: Center for Community Development, which works to strengthen the Arab community by organizing networks of activists into neighborhood, local or national coalitions, and by training community leaders. ($20,000)
• Al-Zahraa, which provides empowerment courses to promote women's integration into Palestinian Israeli society and improve their status within Israeli society. ($20,000)
• The Association for Arab Youth - Baladna, which is developing a national network of youth groups designed to strengthen young Palestinian Israelis' appreciation of Arab culture, their national roots, and cultural identities, as well as promoting democratic and pluralistic values. ($15,000)
• Association of Forty, which is the primary organization addressing the needs of unrecognized villages in the north and an essential resource for residents, policy-makers, and public figures. ($20,000)
• Committee for Educational Guidance, which seeks to bridge gaps created by discriminatory policies against the Palestinian Israeli education system and facilitate the advancement of Palestinian Israeli youth to higher education. ($25,000)
• Follow up Committee for Arab Education, which works to make the Palestinian Israeli education system become independent, receive appropriate resources, and administer its own content, resources, and administration. ($30,000)
• Hiwar for Alternative-Democratic Education, which works to reduce gaps between the Palestinian and Jewish education systems, and which will establish a democratic school as an alternative to the existing Palestinian Israeli schools in Haifa. ($20,000)
• I'lam: Media Center, which trains Palestinian Israelis as media professionals and also works as an intermediary between the Hebrew language press and the Palestinian population. ($20,000)
• Kayan - Feminist Organization for Women in Arab Society, which works with three coalitions that seek to end "family honor" crimes, effect change in the Muslim religious courts, and conduct Jewish-Arab women's dialogues. ($20,000)
• Lagiya: Association for Improvement of the Status of Women, which provides strategies to improve Bedouin women's living conditions, and works to help them realize their rights and make financially and spiritually rewarding contributions to their community. ($20,000)
• Negev Coexistence Forum, which focuses on improving conditions in the unrecognized Bedouin villages and protecting the rights of Bedouin in the Negev. ($20,000)
• Building Civil Society
• Adva Center, which promotes equality among Israel's national, ethnic, and gender groups by analyzing the State budget, conducting research studies, and informing the public of its findings through position papers, policy recommendations, lectures, conferences, and other public events. ($20,000)
• Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), which works to promote and protect the human rights of all members of society, through legal advocacy, policy advocacy, education and public outreach. ($150,000)
• Hotline for Migrant Workers, which works to end human rights violations faced by foreign workers in Israel, e.g., detention and deportation, inability to transfer from one employer to another, and financial exploitation such as salaries below the minimum wage. ($17,000)
• Israel Women's Network, which focuses on improving the status of women in Israel by protecting women's rights in the workplace and cultivating the leadership potential of women from all regions and socioeconomic levels. ($35,000)
• Sister-For Women in Israel, which seeks to empower women and focus public attention on workplace discrimination. ($30,000)
• Workers' Hotline/Kav La'Oved, which protects the rights of the most vulnerable workers in Israeli society. ($20,000)

11. For NIF’s program to improve opportunities for Ethiopian immigrants ($425,000). Recommended for:

• ALMAYA - Association for the Advancement of the Ethiopian Family & Child in Israel: which fosters the integration of Ethiopian immigrants by training and employing Ethiopian Israelis as professionals and paraprofessionals, and by developing and implementing model programs to meet the needs of the community. ($65,000)
• Center for Community Advocacy and Legal Assistance for the Ethiopian Community, which provides information, guidance, and assistance regarding rights and entitlements for the Ethiopian Jewish community. ($25,000)
• Hadera Ethiopian Volunteer Center, for its efforts to strengthen the local leadership of Ethiopian Israelis in the town of Hadera. ($30,000)
• Fidel - Association for Education and Social Integration for Ethiopian Jews, which engages in education, advocacy, and social activities to improve the integration of Ethiopian immigrants. ($150,000)
• Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews, which provides the data and policy analysis required to formulate strategies to improve immigration policies for the Ethiopian-Israeli community and advocates for the needed changes. ($100,000)
• SHAHAR: Movement for Equal Rights and Civil Liberties, for its project My Future is in My Hands, which cultivates leadership skills, political awareness, and academic self-confidence among Ethiopian youth. ($20,000)
• South Wing to Zion: the Association for Ingathering and Absorption of Ethiopian Jewry, which works to bring the Falas Mora to Israel and to ease their integration into Israeli society. ($35,000)

12. For NIF’s program to foster the absorption of immigrants from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) ($50,000). Recommended for:

• Modus School and Educational Center, which develops and disseminates an approach in education based on principles of democracy and responsibility; recommended for a teachers' training course and for a fundraising position. ($30,000) (Second installment of a two-year $65,000 grant.)
• Shiluv - Integration, which facilitates the integration of immigrants from the Commonwealth of Independent States into Israeli society. ($20,000)

13. For NIF’s program to promote equal rights and opportunities for Arab Israelis ($439,000). Recommended for:

• A Step Forward's Women's Community Leadership Development Project, which works to improve the status and level of civic involvement of Bedouin women in the town of Rahat. ($13,000)
• Acre Women’s Association, which works to improve the status of Arab women in Israel, primarily by improving early childhood education opportunities for Israel’s Arab citizens. ($9,000)
• Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace's democratization program in Arab schools, including: in-service training for teachers; classroom work with students; and implementation of a democratic way of life in the school. ($30,000)
• Arab Association for Human Rights, which promotes and protects the human rights of the Palestinian minority in Israel. ($25,000)
• The Association to Promote the Education of Bedouin Women, for its Pre-University Preparatory Project (PUPP), a pre-university course that prepares talented Bedouin women high school students for higher education programs. ($35,000)
• Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development, for its planning activities for Bedouin residents in the Negev's unrecognized villages ($20,000) and for the Al A'ouna Fund for waste collection services ($20,000). ($40,000)
• Community Advocacy, which seeks to empower the Bedouin communities in the Negev to advocate for individual social rights and changes in discriminatory policies. ($35,000)
• Israel Family Planning Association (IFPA), for its Open the Doors in Arab Society project, which trains Arab professionals about reproductive health and sexual behavior issues and provides IFPA services to Arab citizens. ($40,000)
• Kfar Qassim Society for Informal Culture and Education, for its science and technology enrichment activities for Bedouin students in the Negev ($35,000) and for staffing ($15,000). ($50,000)
• The Mossawa Center: the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel, for its Capacity Building Project which provides Arab public leaders with the skills needed to affect public policy and access government funds. ($50,000)
• Negev Coexistence Forum, for the Hirbet el-Watan water access project. ($2,000)
• Sidreh, which promotes the development and advancement of Bedouin women in the Negev. ($40,000)
• Social Development Committee, for the Community Action Against House Demolition project. ($10,000)
• The Trust of Programs for Early Childhood, Family and Community Education, for its activities in Ramallah and East Jerusalem. ($35,000)
• Women Against Violence, which works to improve the social and legal status of Palestinian-Israeli women and to eliminate all forms of violence directed against them. ($25,000)

14. For NIF’s program to strengthen civil rights and build civil society ($30,000). Recommended for:

• Hotline for Migrant Workers, for its Trafficking in Women project, which works to protect the rights of victims, prevent the trafficking, and strengthen enforcement of laws against this crime. ($20,000)
• The Jewish-Arab Community Association: Wolfson Neighborhood, for its Community Activist Empowerment project which focuses on housing issues as well as on the physical and social rehabilitation of this Jewish-Arab neighborhood. ($10,000)

15. For NIF’s program to support peace and coexistence in Israel ($30,000). Recommended for:

• Bat Shalom for the Coalition of Women for a Just Peace, a coalition of nine Israeli women's peace NGOs and independent women peace activists. ($15,000)
• Economic Cooperation Foundation, which works to achieve a sustainable peace between Israel and the Palestinians and in the region as a whole. ($15,000)

B. Friends of Yemin Orde: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which supports activities at the Yemin Orde Communities - renowned for their educational, social, and leadership development programs for immigrant and disadvantaged youth.

• $45,000 For its Palestinian Democratic Development Program, which provides technical assistance and funds to NGOs operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
• $30,000 For the Palestinian Emergency Fund, which distributed funds to Palestinian NGOs whose offices/property were damaged or destroyed during the occupation.
• $18,000 Recommended for support of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, which documents human rights abuses committed in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and publicizes the violations in order to end the abuses, promote the rule of law, and protect human rights.

D. North American Council on Ethiopean Jewry (NACOEJ): $40,000 For the Israel Dissemination Program, which enhances NACOEJ's organizational capacity to promote the adoption of its programs and principles as national policy and among the Ethiopian community and to access additional funds for increased dissemination of its programs.