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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“I am done with the game of supporting Palestine. It is a lie.”
Those words are notable because of who is saying them. Wiam Wahhab is a Lebanese Druze politician with a long history of alignment with Hezbollah and Bashar al-Assad’s Syria. He has been under U.S. sanctions since 2007 for actions the Treasury Department said helped undermine Lebanese sovereignty and democracy.
Now, Wahhab is publicly rejecting decades of conflict with Israel and arguing that Lebanon should pursue peace.
His broader political record should not be overlooked or endorsed. But the fact that a figure with his history is openly questioning the path Lebanon and the wider region have followed for decades is significant.
The people of the Middle East deserve a future in which disagreements are settled through diplomacy rather than perpetual war — and in which Israelis, Lebanese, Palestinians, and all the region’s peoples have the opportunity to live, build, and thrive in peace.
A former Harvard employee is suing the university, alleging he was fired in retaliation for taking approved time off to observe Rosh Hashanah.
Daniel Lilienthal claims his supervisor approved his religious leave, but later criticized him for “taking time off” and told him, “I don’t want you thinking you can just take off time whenever you want.” Nine days later, he was fired.
His lawsuit alleges religious discrimination and retaliation. Harvard has not yet responded to the allegations in court.
No Jewish employee should have to choose between observing their faith and keeping their job. These allegations must be taken seriously, and Jewish employees — like employees of every faith — must be able to observe their religious holidays without being penalized for doing so.
At a State Department ceremony yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined the families of Americans murdered in Hamas’s October 7 attack to honor their loved ones and remember the atrocities committed that day.
Nearly 50 Americans were murdered on October 7, and Americans were among those taken hostage into Gaza. At the ceremony, bereaved families spoke about the people they lost and called for justice and accountability.
Their stories deserve to be remembered. Their loved ones deserve justice. And the truth about October 7 must never be forgotten.
Four Jewish day schools in Brooklyn, South Florida, and Los Angeles have been targeted by bomb threat hoaxes in the past week.
The threats were determined to be fraudulent, but the fear and disruption they caused were real. Students were evacuated or forced into lockdown, disrupting classrooms and frightening children and families.
No child should have to fear for their safety simply for attending a Jewish school.
These threats must be taken seriously, and those responsible should be identified and held accountable. Jewish students and families deserve to be able to go to school without being subjected to threats and intimidation.
Lebanese actor Mario Bassil is making the case for peace with Israel: peace is better than the destruction of your country and the loss of your people.
His vision is that of a thriving Middle East, with resorts and hotels fully booked from Turkey to Egypt, instead of endless conflict. The terrorist entities that aim to divide us lose a major piece of their power if regular people refuse to believe in their ideology of war.
Peace means more than the absence of war. It means the possibility of prosperity, tourism, and a future where people across the region can thrive together across borders.
Israel’s President sent a personal message of gratitude to Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar, honoring his extraordinary courage during the FlyDubai emergency.
President Herzog has invited him to Jerusalem once he recovers and announced his intention to present him with Israel’s highest recognition for civilian heroism: the Israeli Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism.
Captain Machchhar’s bravery has touched hearts in Israel and India alike. We wish him a full and speedy recovery. A hero to both nations, and an example to all humanity. 🇮🇱🇮🇳
A historic moment in Jerusalem: Colombia’s new embassy has been inaugurated in Israel’s capital.
Jerusalem holds profound meaning for the Jewish people, a city at the heart of our history, faith, and enduring hope of returning to our ancestral homeland.
Thank you to Colombia and President Abelardo de la Espriella for standing with Israel and recognizing Jerusalem’s place in the story of the Jewish people. 🇨🇴🇮🇱
🎥: Rabbi Yosef Harmon
Sami Abu Janb, Israel’s new Consul General in Dubai, comes from the village of Buqei’a on the Galilee.
His appointment reflects the people-to-people ties that ground relations between Israel and the UAE, forged by dual partnership, coexistence, and mutual respect.
May his diplomatic mission help deepen cooperation and strengthen the bonds between the two nations whose relations were normalized in the Abraham Accords. 🇮🇱🇦🇪
