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Written by Ruby Ong
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A Message from Daniel Sokatch
NIF senior staff and board are gathering in Jerusalem for our Board of Directors meeting. Daniel will report back to the NIF community about highlights in the next edition of NIF News.
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In a precedent-setting decision, which opens the door to civil marriage in Israel, the High Court of Justice ordered the Ministry of Interior to recognize the marriages of 14 Israeli couples married by proxy in the El Salvadorian Embassy in Tel Aviv.
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Gilad Barnea began studying medicine at Hebrew University’s Hadassah School of Medicine but after three years decided to switch direction and study law at the Hebrew University's Faculty of Law. Barnea, 46, is the winner of this year's Prof. Herman Schwartz Human Rights Prize.
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As Israel marked the fifth anniversary of Gilad Shalit's captivity in Gaza, twelve human rights organizations, most of them members of the NIF family, published a declaration demanding the release of the Israeli corporal.
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For the past four years, SHATIL and the David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem have collaborated on a unique venture: bringing together people with disabilities and education students, and training them to become agents for social change. One of the aims is for the participants to develop initiatives based on their needs and those of the populations they represent. A byproduct of the program is the creation of new friendships and the challenging of stereotypes.
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In his two-day visit to Toronto, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch spoke to over 400 people about the work of New Israel Fund and its commitment to helping Israel become a state that treats all its citizens equally.
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