Your Part in NIF UK’s Work 

Since 1996, NIF UK has steadily grown in size and impact, connecting supporters in the UK with Israeli and Palestinian activists. 

In the past year, we have engaged with over 3,000 supporters in a wide range of events featuring the work your support made possible.  

Our events in 2025 included: 

• The Annual Human Rights Awards ceremony
• The Annual Vivian Silver Award for Israeli and Palestinian women in leadership
• Local Testimony Exhibition bringing Israel’s photojournalism awards to the UK
• Limmud Festival
• UK Jewish Film Festival & Seret Film Festival
• Jewish Book Week
• 7 October joint memorial service for Israelis and Palestinians 

We did it. You said it… 

What a powerful, humbling and inspiring evening you and your team created for us last week. The world is a far better place with NIF in it. Thank you so much to all of NIF for your truly life-changing and hopeful work. – Event participant and NIF legacy circle member. 

The Power of Conversations 

Holding Liat
We are proud to be a community and education partner for “Holding Liat”, a documentary film that captures both the pain of loss and the courage to keep reaching for peace. The film tells the story of Liat Beinin Atzili, taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October, when her husband, Aviv Atzili, was killed. It follows her family’s fight for her release, while raising difficult questions about identity and belonging as the conflict unfolds in real time. Since her release, Liat has become a powerful voice for compassion and coexistence. In partnership with UK Jewish Film Festival, we have brought the film to the UK. 

On behalf of the entire Synagogue community, I want to extend our deepest gratitude for the incredible way you led our discussion last Saturday evening. Our congregants found the space you created to be both supportive and powerful. It was an evening none of us will soon forget. – Southwest London Synagogue Rabbi.

Limmud Festival
At this year’s Limmud, NIF invited two young peace activists to speak—one Israeli, one Palestinian. The room was full, but the mood was uneasy. A handful of younger participants were openly hostile, directing most of their anger at the Palestinian speaker.  

Five days later, something had shifted.  

Over shared meals, late-night conversations, and the quiet familiarity of seeing each other again and again between sessions, the edges began to soften. By the end of the festival, those same students were seeking the Palestinian speaker out—walking together, talking, laughing, lingering long after events had ended. One of them said, with surprise: “This is complicated. I didn’t expect you to be… the wonderful you.” 

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