Israel $2,835,000

A. NEW ISRAEL FUND (NIF): $2,477,000

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

2. For SHATIL , NIF's Empowerment and Training Center for Social Change Organizations in Israel , which provides technical assistance 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 six key areas: Assistance to the Ethiopian National Project; Low-Income Neighborhoods Project; The Palestinian Initiative; Leadership Training and Technical Assistance to Ethiopian Immigrants Project; Training and Technical Assistance to CIS Immigrants Project; and Workplace Dialogue Project. ($370,000)

4. For NIF's CIS Immigrant Democracy Pool, which supports grassroots organizations that increase CIS immigrants' exposure to democratic and pluralistic values and prepare them to exercise and protect their rights and responsibilities in Israeli society. ($36,000)

5. For NIF's Special Additional Pool to Support CIS Immigrant NGOs, which will provide supplementary institution-building allocations for CIS immigrant NGOs that receive project grants from NIF's CIS Immigrant Democracy Pool. ($85,000)

6. For NIF's Palestinian Initiative to promote the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel . ($150,000)

7. For NIF and SHATIL's National Budget Program, which works to ensure transparency and equal access to state budget allocations, with a particular focus on the public support budget. ($25,000)

8. For NIF's Special Grants Pool for the Improved Integration of Ethiopian Immigrants, which supports initiatives designed to help the Ethiopian Jewish community integrate into Israeli society. ($42,000)

9. 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 . ($486,000) NIF plans to use Moriah funds to fulfill its commitments to the following organizations:

a) Ethiopian Immigrants Projects

South Wing to Zion: 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. ($16,000)

b) Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Immigrant Projects

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)

Immigrants for Successful Absorption , which aids immigrants through five support centers on issues including public housing, national insurance, education, and fair treatment on the job. ($10,000)

c) Palestinian Israeli Projects

Adalah , which employs a variety of legal strategies to fight for the rights and status of Palestinian Israelis. ($40,000)

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. ($25,000)

Al-ssiwar: Arab Feminist Movement, a rape crisis center located in Haifa which operates an emergency hotline for victims and works to eliminate sexual violence against Arab women in the north of Israel through consciousness-raising, particularly in schools and through the press, and advocacy. ($15,000)

Al-Zahraa , which provides empowerment courses to promote women's integration into Palestinian Israeli society and improve their status within Israeli society. ($20,000)

Committee for Educational Guidance , which seeks to fill gaps created by discriminatory policies against the Palestinian Israeli education system and facilitate the advancement of Palestinian Israeli youth to higher education. ($25,000)

Hiwar for Alternative-Democratic Education , which works to reduce gaps between the Palestinian and Jewish education systems, and will establish a democratic school as an alternative to the existing Palestinian Israeli schools in Haifa . ($20,000)

I'Iam: 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)

Nis'a V'afak (Women and Horizons), which is the first Arab feminist organization to promote women's rights by working within the boundaries of Islam using "liberal" religious interpretations of Islamic tradition. ($25,000)

The Forum of Directors of Social Welfare Departments , which works to fight discrimination against Arab local authorities in social welfare matters in order to reduce social and economic gaps between Israel 's Arab and Jewish populations. ($20,000)

Wadi El-Nai , which works to relocate its residents to an environmentally safe site, to gain government recognition of the village, and to improve conditions in the village's present location which deprives it of basic services - water, electricity, garbage collection, health and welfare - and threatens its residents with forced relocation. ($15,000)

d) Building Civil Society Projects

Adva, 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. ($25,000)

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)

Israel Association for Distributive Justice , which works to promote equitable distribution of natural resources in Israel by representing the public interest and promoting reform in resource management. ($20,000)

10. For NIF's Program to Improve Opportunities for Ethiopian Immigrants ($315,000). Recommended for:

ALMAYA-Association for the Advancement of the Ethiopian Family and Child in Israel, which fosters the integration of Ethiopian immigrants by developing and implementing model programs for the community staffed largely by Ethiopian-Israeli professionals and para-professionals and cultivating civic activism among the Ethiopian community in Beer Sheva and Southern Israel. ($30,000)

Fidel - Association for Education and Social Integration for Ethiopian Jews, which trains and employs educational mediators and engages in other activities to improve the integration of Ethiopian immigrants. ($150,000)

Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ), which engages in advocacy and community empowerment activities for the development and implementation of improved immigration policies for the Ethiopian-Israeli community. ($100,000)

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)

11. For NIF's Program to promote equal rights and opportunities for Arab Israelis ($393,000). Recommended for:

Adam Institute for Democracy & Peace , for its efforts to bring democratization processes to Arab schools. ($40,000)

Arab Association for Human Rights, which promotes and protects the human rights of the Palestinian minority in Israel . ($40,000)

The Association to Promote the Education of Bedouin Women, which works to increase the number and academic success of Bedouin female students in institutes of higher education. ($35,000)

Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development (CJAED) , which works to advance the economic development of Israel 's Arab population. ($40,000)

Community Advocacy, for its efforts to empower the Bedouin communities in the Negev to advocate for individual social rights and changes in discriminatory policies. ($20,000)

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)

Mossawa Center , for its Capacity Building Project, which provides Arab public leaders with the skills needed to affect public policy and access government funds. ($50,000)

Sidreh, which promotes the development and advancement of Bedouin women in the Negev . ($50,000)

A Step Forward Women's Leadership Project, which works to improve the status and level of civic involvement of Bedouin women in the town of Rahat . ($18,000)

The Trust of Programs for Early Childhood Family and Community Education, which strengthens members of the Arab community and reinforces their cultural identity through early childhood, family and community education, women's empowerment and leadership development programs. ($35,000)

Women Against Violence (WAV), 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)

12. For NIF's project to advance peace in the region ($60,000). Recommended for:

Breaking the Silence , which uses soldiers' testimonies to expose the daily violation of human rights in the Palestinian territories. ($20,000)

Physicians for Human Rights Israel, to advance human rights in Israel . ($15,000)

The Peoples' Voice, a popular movement working to advance peace based on a two-state solution. ($25,000)

13. For NIF's projects to introduce CIS Immigrants to values of democracy, civic action, and pluralism ($45,000). Recommended for:

Israel Association for Immigrant Children, which addresses the rights and needs of immigrant children and helps them successfully integrate into Israeli schools and society. ($30,000)

Shiluv - Integration, which facilitates the integration of CIS immigrants into Israeli society. ($15,000)

14. For NIF's Projects that build civil society in Israel ($60,000). Recommended for:

Hotline for Migrant Workers' Trafficking in Women project, which works to protect the rights of trafficking victims, prevent the phenomenon, and increase enforcement of laws against this crime ($30,000) and to open and operate a shelter for women who have escaped from the sex industry. ($20,000)

Mahapach, which works to cultivate student activism and social awareness through social change projects in disadvantaged neighborhoods. ($10,000)

15. For NIF's projects that foster peace between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East ($55,000). Recommended for:

Coalition of Women for a Just Peace, a coalition of nine Israeli women's peace NGOs and independent women peace activists. ($30,000)

Ir Amim, which seeks to render a Jerusalem that will be a sustainable, stable, and equitable city under all future political arrangements between Palestinians and Israelis. ($25,000)

B. AMERICANS FOR PEACE NOW (APN): $25,000

For general support of this organization, which seeks to advance the Middle East peace process through public education in the United States and Israel .

C. AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM-ORR SHALOM'S CHILDREN'S HOMES: $25,000

To open a model after-school program for Bedouin children at risk in Rahat.

D. FRIENDS OF YEMIN ORDE: $13,000

For support of its Community Capacity Building Project, which trains an Ethiopian-Israeli intern to work in Yemin Orde's Outreach and Public Relations Department.

E. GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL: $75,000

For its Palestinian Democratic Development Program, which provides technical assistance and funds to NGOs operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. ($45,000)

Recommended for support of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, which documents human rights abuses committed in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem , and publicizes the violations in order to end the abuses, promote the rule of law, and protect human rights. ($30,000)

F. LEO BAECK EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $15,000

For support of Beit Yitzhak, a holistic care center for infants and young children and their families from financially distressed homes in Haifa .

G. NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY (NACOEJ): $110,000

For NACOEJ's Ethiopia program, which provides children's lunches and educational programs to Ethiopian Jews who are awaiting emigration to Israel , and for its monthly food distribution programs for families in both locations. ($75,000)

For its Israel Dissemination program, which enhances NACOEJ's organizational capacity to promote the adoption of its programs and principles as national policy and within the Ethiopian community and to access additional funds for increased dissemination of its programs. ($35,000)

H. THE CONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE: $40,000

To support a conflict assessment process that will evaluate whether or not it is possible to resolve the land dispute between the Negev Bedouin and the Israel government through consensus-based mediation.

I. THE SHEFA FUND: $10,000

Recommended for support of Courage to Refuse/Rauch Hamatzpun, which educates the public about the moral and legal dilemmas of maintaining military occupation in the Palestinian territories and supports soldiers who refuse to serve in the occupied territories.