How Our Model Works
MTF’s Israel trips are not the finish line. They are the catalyst for long-term campus impact.
Identify
We identify influential student leaders who shape campus culture, including student government officials, journalists, faith leaders, activists, campus organization heads, and other high-impact students.
Bring to Israel
We bring them to Israel for immersive educational trips that challenge misinformation, deepen understanding, and build real relationships with Israelis, Jewish peers, and one another.
Follow Up
After students return, we maintain engagement through reunion programs, coalition-building events, mentorship opportunities, leadership development, and continued campus support.
Activate
Trip alumni, Fellows, and student allies help organize coalitions, respond to antisemitism, challenge anti-Israel campaigns, and support Jewish students when campus tensions rise.
Lead
Over time, these students become leaders in student government, campus media, professional networks, and broader civic life.
The result: MTF does not simply change minds. We build networks of students with the influence to change campus outcomes.
Our Programs
MTF is building a campus leadership infrastructure that reaches students before, during, and after the moments when antisemitism and anti-Israel activism surface on campus.
Israel Trips
MTF brings influential non-Jewish student leaders to Israel for immersive educational trips that challenge misinformation, build relationships, and help students overcome the false and malicious narratives they’re subjected to on campus.
MTF Fellows
Our Fellows are student leaders on campus who build coalitions, recruit allies, organize programming, respond to antisemitism, and help sustain student engagement beyond the trip experience.
Post-Trip Engagement
The real work begins after the trip. MTF keeps alumni engaged through reunion programs, campus events, coalition-building opportunities, leadership development, and continued support.
Mentorship & Professional Networks
MTF connects high-potential students and young alumni with Israeli and Israel-connected professionals, helping them build lasting relationships with Israel through business, law, technology, medicine, public policy, and other fields.
International Campus Work
From England to South Africa, MTF operates in some of the most challenging campus environments in the world, developing courageous student allies in places where Jewish students often face intense hostility and where non-Jewish leadership can have an outsized impact.
Alumni Engagement
MTF’s work does not end at graduation. We are building long-term pathways for star trip alumni, Fellows, and student leaders to remain connected as mentors, speakers, advocates, professionals, and future leaders.
WHAT STUDENTS SAY
“Nothing I read in the States compared to hearing directly from Israelis on the ground. The trip forced me to confront how much of my perspective had been shaped by oversimplified and misleading narratives. If you’re serious about understanding Israel as it actually is, not as it’s portrayed, you have to see it for yourself. It's an incredible place filled with people seeking peace.”
MTF reaches the students who are often least likely to attend a traditional pro-Israel campus event and gives them the opportunity to encounter Israel directly. For many participants, the trip replaces slogans and assumptions with firsthand experience, real relationships, and a more accurate understanding of Israeli society.
“My MTF Israel trip experience was genuinely life-changing and by far the most transformative trip I have ever taken. Before visiting Israel, much of my understanding came from narratives I had absorbed on campus and online. Speaking directly with Israelis and Palestinians, and seeing the realities of the region firsthand, challenged many of those assumptions and helped me understand why Israel must exist. I also met individuals who had endured hardships I could barely imagine which gave me a new perspective on resilience and gratitude. I knew I couldn’t simply leave that experience behind when I returned to campus, which is why I chose to become an MTF Fellow and stand up for the Jewish community at Hopkins”
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Almost years after Hamas’s October 7 massacre, the people murdered that day are being remembered across the heart of New York City. Their photographs fill Times Square as a reminder that every victim had a face, a family, a story, and a life. They weren’t just statistics in a geopolitical conflict.
More than 1,200 people were murdered and more than 250 were taken hostage into Gaza.
May their memories always be blessed. 🕯️
🎥: Israel in New York
Three years after the October 7 massacre, a planned “pro-Palestine” march is set to take place in Britain on the anniversary itself.
On GB News, Nana Akua challenged political commentator Ben Smoke over the timing, arguing that holding such a demonstration on the anniversary of Hamas’ massacre shows a lack of compassion for the victims and their families.
Smoke responded by accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. Akua pushed back, questioning the use of that label and pointing out that the legal question of genocide remains contested internationally. The ICJ has not issued a final judgment determining that genocide occurred.
Three years on, October 7 should not be erased, minimized, or pushed aside. The anniversary of the attack should be set aside to remember the 1,200 people murdered by Hamas, and the hostages whose lives were shattered that day.
🎥: GB News
New reporting by CNN has uncovered a disturbing digital trail connected to Flydubai FZ1073 suspect Hamam al-Hammami.
Two posts appeared on LinkedIn and Instagram accounts bearing his name roughly nine hours after the attack. One included footage of Israeli aircraft and ended with images of former Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and an Al-Qaeda-linked suicide bomber. Another featured Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem alongside a poem about rejecting humiliation and not fearing death.
CNN also analyzed a now-deleted X account linked to al-Hammami, which contained misogynistic posts about women and mixed-gender workplaces. It remains unknown who published the posts or whether they had been scheduled in advance.
These revelations add another disturbing layer to an incident already under investigation as a likely terrorist act.
🎥: CNN London
A new report reveals a terrifying failure to vet Flydubai FZ1073 co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami, the man accused of a terrorist attack against the Captain of the flight.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Omani authorities had previously banned Hamam al-Hammami from flying over concerns about his radical ideological views. Despite the ban, Flydubai later hired him and assigned him to the Dubai–Tel Aviv route.
How did someone deemed unfit to fly for his home country’s airline make it back into the cockpit in the UAE, a country with notoriously rigorous security measures?
The heroic actions of Captain Smit Machchhar, passengers, and crew prevented a catastrophe, but aviation security systems must ensure that serious warnings about extremist ideologies follow individuals across borders. Warnings only matter if they’re shared across companies and acted upon accordingly.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with injured captain Smit Machchhar from flight FZ1073, who recounted how despite suffering serious injuries, he knew he had to act.
Machchhar managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to intervene and ultimately helping bring the aircraft safely to the ground.
The moment between the two men is a powerful reminder of the human courage behind this story.
Captain Machchhar risked his own life to protect the innocent people entrusted to him.
We wish this hero a full and speedy recovery. 🇮🇳🇮🇱
A federal indictment has exposed an alleged international fundraising network accused of channeling more than $1.7 million to Hamas under the guise of humanitarian aid for Gaza.
Alleged Hamas member Saleem Alzaq was indicted in New York on charges including conspiring to provide material support to Hamas, money laundering, and sanctions violations. Prosecutors allege he helped operate the fundraising network while in Gaza.
Two Louisiana brothers, Abdel and Omar Adhami, were arrested last month and charged with allegedly helping raise and transfer funds to Alzaq.
Investigators say the brothers used social media to solicit donations and allegedly used coded language to conceal transfers to Hamas. At least $626,000 was raised from U.S.-based donors, according to prosecutors.
Humanitarian aid channels should never become pipelines for financing terrorism.
The investigation is a stark reminder that Hamas fundraising networks can operate internationally and covertly, and that financial support for terrorism can hide behind the language of humanitarian assistance.
When Flydubai FZ1073 began to spiral out of control, Israeli passengers didn’t wait for someone else to act.
Tzvika Manes, an Israeli bank executive, was among the Israelis who entered the cockpit and helped overpower the co-pilot after he allegedly attacked the captain. Video from the flight shows Manes, alongside other passengers, helping restrain the attacker while the wounded pilot was treated.
Other passengers and crew members joined the effort, while off-duty pilots and others helped stabilize the aircraft before it ultimately landed safely in Saudi Arabia.
The immense courage of these passengers and crew saved the lives of all 174 passengers on board, including 27 children.
Authorities say they stopped an alleged plot to attack the Texas State Capitol before it could be carried out.
Texas DPS says it received credible information about a violent attack allegedly planned for October 1 and, working alongside the FBI, arrested 40-year-old Benny Caldera Jr. at his home early Wednesday morning.
Caldera was initially charged with a felony terroristic threat against a public servant. He was later taken into federal custody to face additional charges related to the alleged plot.
According to an arrest affidavit reported by NBC 5, a friend told investigators that Caldera threatened to go to the Capitol and “shoot it up.” The affidavit also states that Caldera expressed anger toward AIPAC and said that “these people have to be exterminated.”
The investigation remains ongoing, and authorities have not yet established the full circumstances or motive behind the alleged plot.
Threats of violence must be taken seriously: particularly when warning signs include rhetoric about “exterminating” people in connection with a pro-Israel organization.
We thank the Texas DPS, FBI, and law enforcement officials whose actions helped stop this alleged plot before anyone was hurt.
