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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The 9/11 25th anniversary memorial in Israel honors the almost 3,000 American lives lost to genocidal terrorism.
Standing proudly in the Jerusalem hills, Israel’s national 9/11 memorial remains the only site outside the United States that enshrines the name of every single victim.
This solemn anniversary service paid profound tribute to those innocent lives, their grieving families, and all the brave servicemembers who fell in the global struggle against extremism.
Just one of those thousands of universes lost was Nancy Morgenstern’s. Her parents remembered her at the memorial as a deeply caring friend and a devoted Orthodox Jew.
A passionate lover of biking and skiing, she was an ever-dependable, radiant presence for everyone privileged to know her.
May all of their memories be blessed, and may we all fulfill our responsibility to ensure that their sacrifices weren’t in vain. 🕯️
Nancy Morgenstern lived a life defined by warmth, deep friendliness, and a vibrant spirit that touched everyone she met, bridging multiple faiths and communities despite her steadfast commitment to Orthodox Judaism.
Known also for her passion as an avid biker, she was described by her mother in writing simply as her only daughter and her best friend.
That radiant world was stolen on September 11, laying bare the ongoing real-world cost of terrorism in the thousands of shattered universes left behind.
Every life lost was a world unto itself that will never be the same. Yet, her family has ensured that her extraordinary legacy endures not only in memory, but through life-saving philanthropic projects built in her name across Israel, ensuring that her boundless love and generosity continue to illuminate the world.
As the anniversary of September 11 reminds the world of the dark depravity of extremist ideologies, it also highlights the enduring light of those we lost.
Among the thousands of innocent victims was Nancy Morgenstern, a vibrant thirty-two-year-old Orthodox woman working for Cantor Fitzgerald in the North Tower of the World Trade Center, whose life was brutally cut short.
Rather than succumbing to despair, her family chose to honor her memory through a profound legacy of resilience, action, and life-saving support channeled directly into Israeli communities.
Through the Nancy Morgenstern Memorial Fund, her family established the first emergency ambulance service in Ramat Beit Shemesh, which grew into a twenty-four-hour volunteer medical response team saving countless lives.
The initiative expanded further to address community needs through a rotating children’s bicycle distribution program, a free loan fund providing short-term financial relief for families, and the construction of a local synagogue and kollel dedicated to Torah study and communal growth.
These enduring acts of community service transform a
an entire family’s devastating tragedy into a perpetual source of life, ensuring that a life marked by grace, faith, and joy continues to illuminate the world.
Appearing on GB News, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart strongly criticized the government’s newly introduced sanctions targeting Jewish cities in Judea and Samaria, dismissing them as an ineffective set of measures that fail to achieve any constructive outcome.
He warned that such hostile diplomatic actions risk undermining crucial international alliances and directly threatening Britain’s own national security interests.
Critics of the policy continue to argue that imposing punitive measures on a key democratic ally miscalculates the geopolitical reality in the Middle East and weakens shared counter-terrorism cooperation.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, has launched a dedicated Task Force on Combating Antisemitism at the UN.
Backed by a coalition of international member states, the initiative aims to move past empty rhetoric and transition into concrete, measurable actions to protect Jewish communities worldwide.
Ambassador Danon stressed that the solemn pledge of “Never Again” must serve as an active, unyielding commitment.
With the upcoming election of a new UN Secretary-General on the horizon, the coalition’s message is that combating antisemitism and holding international institutions accountable must rise to the top of the global agenda because words alone are no longer enough.
Greek Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis recently welcomed the newly appointed Israeli Ambassador to Greece, Pninat Yanay to his office for a high-level meeting focused on strengthening bilateral ties.
During their discussion, the two leaders explored extensive opportunities for partnership and medical collaboration between Greece and Israel within the healthcare sector.
Highlighting the immense potential for technological and operational advancement, the Greek minister emphasized that his country’s national health service would greatly benefit from adopting advanced Israeli medical innovations and expertise.
This diplomatic engagement highlights the enduring friendship between Greece and Israel, and shows how strategic partnerships can directly improve the well-being and security of both nations.
Breakthrough research from the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to combat online antisemitism.
Instead of waiting for hateful narratives to spread and attempting to debunk them after the damage is done, researchers are using AI to pioneer “pre-bunking.” Through randomized testing with thousands of adults, the study demonstrated that short, AI-generated educational videos can effectively teach people to recognize manipulation tactics behind antisemitic content before those narratives can take hold.
Participants who watched a brief video like this successfully identified manipulation tactics in brand-new posts, with protective critical-thinking skills remaining measurable weeks later.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar formally announced a series of diplomatic countermeasures following the UK’s implementation of unilateral sanctions targeting Jewish cities in Judea and Samaria.
Condemning the British government’s actions as a hostile and unacceptable foreign intervention, FM Sa’ar detailed immediate steps taken in response, including the closure of the British consulate in Jerusalem.
Additional measures include removing British representatives from the International Gaza Support Center, terminating specific UK-led training programs for Palestinian Authority forces, and barring several British representatives from entry due to documented anti-Israel activities.
Israel has repeatedly emphasized that discriminatory diplomatic pressures against its national interests will always be met with a firm and uncompromising response.
