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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Israeli judoka Sagi Muki welcomed Saeid Mollaei, the Iranian-born Olympic silver medalist and former world champion who competes for Azerbaijan, to Tel Aviv. Muki shared that he hopes one day to visit Mollaei in a free Iran, when Tehran is once again a place where Israelis can travel safely.
Their friendship has become a powerful symbol of what sport can achieve. Despite immense political pressure, Mollaei chose integrity over intimidation, and Muki welcomed him with open arms.
Their message is that people are not each other’s enemies because of the actions of governments. Hopefully one day Israelis and Iranians will be able to visit one another freely as friends and allies.
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili stepped forward to help the University of Pittsburgh confront antisemitism.
The response she says she received should concern everyone.
Murtazashvili is a professor, director of Pitt’s Center for Governance and Markets, and vice chair of the university’s Working Group on Antisemitism.
After being named to the group’s leadership, she said her home was targeted and that she was subjected to extensive online hatred and harassment.
No faculty member should have to endure that for serving their university and working to protect Jewish students, faculty, and staff from antisemitism.
When people trying to address hatred become targets themselves, it underscores how serious the problem has become.
Universities cannot build safe, open, and intellectually serious communities if antisemitism is allowed to intimidate not only Jewish students, but also those willing to stand with them.
Tali Smus never expected to become a national advocate for Jewish students, but after facing persistent antisemitism on campus, staying silent was no longer an option.
Speaking with GB News, the President of Students Supporting Israel at King’s College London described how the hostility she experienced on campus ultimately inspired her to speak out not just for herself, but for Jewish students across the UK.
No student should have to become an activist simply to defend their right to study in safety. Universities must ensure that Jewish students can participate in campus life without fear, intimidation, or discrimination. Until that happens, voices like Tali’s remain essential.
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Columbia University’s student workers’ union has quietly dropped its demand that the university divests from Israel.
The reversal comes as Columbia prepares to open its new Global Center in Tel Aviv, signaling that academic engagement with Israel is moving forward despite years of intense pressure from “pro-Palestine” activists. Union president Grant Miner acknowledged the change, saying negotiations required them to “face the realities” of the bargaining process.
For years Israel divestment resolutions have played the college campus. Universities should remain places of education, research, and dialogue, not institutions unfairly targeting the world’s only Jewish state.
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For many families and survivors, October 7 never truly ended.
Thirty-year-old Bar Asraf was found dead at the grave of his girlfriend, Liron Barda, nearly three years after she was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova Music Festival.
Liron was working as a bartender when the massacre began. As others fled, she stayed behind to help the wounded.
Bar lived for years with the devastating aftermath of that day and the loss of the woman he loved.
October 7 was not only a single day of violence. It left countless survivors, families, and loved ones carrying invisible wounds long after the world’s attention moved on.
The human cost of terrorism cannot be measured only by those murdered that day, but also by the lives permanently shattered in its aftermath.
May the memories of Bar, Liron, and every victim of October 7 be a blessing.
If you or someone you know is struggling, please seek help:
In the U.S., call or text 988 or use the 988 Lifeline chat at https://988lifeline.org/chat
In Israel, call 1201, visit eran.org.il for online chat, or contact ERAN on WhatsApp at 052-8451201
Boy George chose principle over convenience.
After his label manager reportedly refused to release his new song in solidarity with survivors of the Nova Music Festival massacre, Boy George parted ways with Tony Pontius, who he says has “has run my record label BGP for a number of years.”
The song, “We Will Dance Again” (עוד נרקוד), honors the victims and survivors of the October 7 massacre. Its Hebrew title is the a powerful symbol of resilience long-embraced by both Nova survivors and Hamas captivity survivors.
At a time when many in the music industry have remained silent, Boy George made a different choice. Thank you for your moral clarity.
If you appreciate artists who stand with victims of terrorism, show Boy George your support on X, YouTube, and every platform where his voice can be heard.
Boy George chose principle over convenience.
After his label manager reportedly refused to release his new song in solidarity with survivors of the Nova Music Festival massacre, Boy George parted ways with Tony Pontius, who he says has “has run my record label BGP for a number of years.”
The song, “We Will Dance Again” (עוד נרקוד), honors the victims and survivors of the October 7 massacre. Its Hebrew title is the a powerful symbol of resilience long-embraced by both Nova survivors and Hamas captivity survivors.
At a time when many in the music industry have remained silent, Boy George made a different choice. Thank you for your moral clarity.
If you appreciate artists who stand with victims of terrorism, show Boy George your support on X, YouTube, and every platform where his voice can be heard.
A group of Israeli tourists in Crete say they were attacked after singing in Hebrew outside their hotel.
According to the report given to Israel’s National Center for Combating Antisemitism and Channels 12 and 13, a mob shouting “F* Israel”** and “Free Palestine” chased them into the hotel, searched room-to-room for Israelis, threw bottles, and shot one Israeli in the head with an air rifle. Several of the Israeli tourists barricaded themselves in their rooms as they feared for their lives.
This what results when hatred becomes institutionalized. As Jewish and Israeli lives are devalued, violent acts committed against them become socially acceptable, and even encouraged.
Greek authorities must do more to root out antisemitism and protect Israelis visiting their territory.
