Israel $2,742,000

A. NEW ISRAEL FUND (NIF): $2,572,000

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 NIF’s capacity building program, SHATIL, which provides technical assistance on organizational management, resource development, advocacy, media relations, and coalition building to more than 800 Israeli social change organizations. ($200,000)

3. For NIF’s capacity building program, SHATIL, to provide technical assistance through four key projects: the Assistance to the Ethiopian Immigrants Project; the Conflict Transformation and Management Center; the Social and Economic Justice Initiative (formerly the Low-Income Neighborhoods Project); and the Palestinian Initiative. ($290,000)

4. For NIF’s Abu Basma Project to Develop Bedouin Villages, which builds on the 2004 creation of the Abu Basma Regional Council, to engage members of the newly recognized villages represented in the Council in the formulation and implementation of plans for development, services, and infrastructure for their villages. ($85,000)

5. For NIF’s Assistance to the Former Soviet Union (FSU) Immigrant Community Project, which is designed to bolster the capabilities of organizations working to bring immigrants from the Former Soviet Union into the Israeli societal mainstream ($55,000)

6. For NIF’s Palestinian Initiative, which promotes 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 Ethiopian National Project, which advances scholastic achievements and empowers the Ethiopian community in Israel. ($50,000)

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. ($487,000) NIF used Moriah funds to fulfill its commitments to the following organizations:

a) Ethiopian Immigrants Projects

South Wing to Zion: Association for the 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

New Era,which, conducts advocacy and provides legal assistance to promote solutions to the problems faced by CIS immigrants. ($16,000)

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

Ad-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)

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

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

Association to Support Arab Minors, which addresses the systematic discrimination by state institutions that fail to meet the basic needs of Arab youth. ($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)

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)

Hiwar for Alternative-Democratic Education, which works to reduce gaps between the Palestinian and Jewish education systems and 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)

Wadi El-Nai, which is working 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 (360,000).

Recommended for:
ALMAYA-Association for the Advancement of the Ethiopian Family and Child in Israel, which cultivates civic activism, improved parenting skills and successful integration of youth and adults in the Ethiopian community in Beer Sheva and Southern Israel. ($30,000)

Fidel – Association for Education and Social Integration for Ethiopian Jews, which empowers the Ethiopian community in Israel through training educational mediators, the establishment of a model school and centers for youth-at-risk. ($150,000)

Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ), which seeks to strengthen the Ethiopian community and support the efforts of other Ethiopian NGOs through advocacy, research, policy analysis, strategic planning, and community empowerment. ($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. ($55,000)

Tebeka,which seeks to expand efforts to eradicate racism and discrimination through legal action, and to empower the Ethiopian community through legal advice and referrals and public education about civil rights and obligations. ($15,000)

The Forum of Representatives of Ethiopian Jewish Community Organizations for the Ethiopian National Project (ENP), to reassess the Forum’s mission, working methods and staff functions, and to develop a work plan to improve its efficiency in delivering training workshops and influencing the ENP. ($10,000)

11. For NIF’s Program to promote equal rights and opportunities for Arab Israelis ($440,000). Recommended for:

Adam Institute for Democracy & Peace, for its efforts to bring democratization processes to Arab schools. ($35,000)

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

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. ($20,000)

Bimkom-Planners for Planning Rights, for its Planning Equality for Arab Communities (PEAC) Project to work for more equitable planning rights and land use, and to make planning processes more responsive for Arab communities in Israel. ($50,000)

Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development (CJAED), which works to make Israel’s Arab sector economically viable and to promote Jewish-Arab economic cooperation. ($40,000)
Community Advocacy, for its community organizing efforts among the Negev Bedouin through six locally-based outreach points and its Community Advocacy Rights Mobile, and to seek implementation of unenforced policy decisions and legal rulings. ($15,000)

Israel Family Planning Association (IFPA), for its "Open the Doors in Arab Society" project, which promotes family planning and healthy, responsible sexual behavior in the Israeli Arab community through sex education and quality reproductive health services at its 16 Open Door centers. ($40,000)

Ma’an-the Forum of Negev Bedouin Women’s Organizations, which works to augment the strength and coordination of Bedouin women’s groups and activists and to enable members to confront issues too risky to tackle alone. ($10,000)

Mossawa Center: The Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel, for its Capacity Building Project, which accesses government budgets designated for the development needs of Israel’s Arab sector, and for its political and economic analysis, public education and media work. ($50,000)

Sidreh, which promotes the development and advancement of Bedouin women in the Negev through education and business projects. ($40,000)

Social Development Committee-SDC-Haifa, for its Community Action Against Home Demolition Project to prevent the Haifa Municipality from demolishing 54 building and displacing 94 Arab families in the oldest Arab neighborhood in the city as part of a road expansion plan. ($10,000)

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)

The Trust of Programs for Early Childhood Family and Community Education, for its work in Israeli Palestinian society through parenting courses and a new Parenthood Center, women’s and teen empowerment programs, and counseling training programs for dealing with post-trauma symptoms in children. ($30,000)

Women Against Violence (WAV), for its direct services to Palestinian-Israeli women victims of violence through its hotline, shelter, and halfway houses, and for its efforts to address widespread unemployment and the minimal representation of Palestinian women in public life. ($25,000)

12. For NIF’s Project to advance peace between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East ($80,000). Recommended for:

Coalition of Women for Peace, which seeks to mobilize women to help end the Occupation, to involve women in the peace process, and to eliminate the pervasive militarism in Israeli society. ($30,000)

Ir Amim, which seeks to create a Jerusalem that will be a sustainable, stable, and equitable city under all future political arrangements between Palestinians and Israelis. ($35,000)

Eretz Acheret, for translation of its special issue - “Letter to the Palestinians” – into Arabic, and for distribution of the Arabic version in the Palestinian territories. ($15,000)

13. For NIF’s Project that builds civil society in Israel ($110,000).

Recommended for:
Agenda, the Israeli Center for Strategic Communication, which works to change the way social justice issues are presented in the Israeli media, and to help NGOs use media to get their messages across more effectively. ($30,000)

Hotline for Migrant Workers’ Combating Trafficking in Women, which works to protect the rights of trafficking victims, prevent the phenomenon, and increase enforcement of laws against this crime and for its Choosing Freedom-Safehouse Program for Trafficking Victims, to open and operate a shelter for women who have escaped from the sex industry. ($50,000)

Mahapach, for work in the Arab sector to cultivate student activism and empower weaker populations through social change projects in disadvantaged neighborhoods. ($10,000)

Merchavim-LET’s TALK Program, which promotes shared citizenship by introducing Arab teachers and role models into Jewish elementary schools for a values-based program built around Arabic language instruction. ($20,000)

14. For NIF’s Projects that introduce CIS and other immigrants to values of democracy, civic action, and pluralism ($40,000).

Recommended for: Israeli Association for Immigrant Children (IAIC), which promotes the rights and integration of immigrant children, including those whose rights are limited by their lack of legal status and/or religious classification. ($40,000)

B. AMERICANS FOR PEACE NOW: $35,000

For support of this organization, which seeks to educate the American public and policy makers about the necessity of and the path to a just and lasting peace for Israel and her neighbors, and which supports the largest, most effective peace organization in Israel-Shalom Achshav.

C. 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. ($45,000)

Recommended for support of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, for its campaign to document and expose human rights violations against Palestinians and to hold perpetrators – whether Israeli or Palestinian – accountable before the local and international media and authorities. ($30,000)

D. NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY: $35,000

For support of NACOEJ’s Ethiopian program, which provides nutritional, educational, religious, and vocational programs in two compounds in Ethiopia for Falas Mora waiting to emigrate to Israel.

E. THE CONSENUS BUILDING INSTITUTE (CBI): $15,000

For support of CBI’s three locally-based pilot assessments of the potential for mediation to resolve land disputes between the State of Israel and both the unrecognized Bedouin villages and recognized Bedouin municipalities.

F. THE SHEFA FUND: $10,000

Recommended for support of Courage to Refuse/Rauch Hamatzpun, for continuing efforts to end the Occupation and support soldiers refusing to serve in the Territories, to promote democracy, and to reach out to Jewish Israeli youth and like-minded Palestinians.