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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Syrian-born Lebanese activist Rawan Osman was raised with a deeply negative view of Israel. Today, she has dedicated her advocacy to challenging the narratives she was taught.
Speaking with Australia’s 24 News, Osman described the anti-Israel indoctrination she says many children encounter across parts of the Arab world, and how social media is beginning to break down those barriers by giving people direct access to Israeli voices and perspectives they previously never encountered.
Osman also argued that confronting anti-Zionism is not Israel’s struggle alone. Anti-Israel movements reject far more than the Jewish state: they challenge the pluralism, individual freedoms, and democratic values that underpin Western societies.
Her own transformation demonstrates why exposure to different perspectives matters. Hatred can be taught, but it can also be unlearned.
A striking scene from Suwayda in southern Syria appears to show members of the Druze community organized in a convoy displaying numerous Israeli flags and thanking Israel for standing with them.
Footage published by Bob Abou Hamed of Jethro Press appears to depict Druze residents rallying in support of Israel following last year’s deadly violence involving forces aligned with post-Assad regime Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
The demonstration reflects the deep appreciation some in the Druze community have developed towards Israel for intervening on behalf of Syria’s Druze.
These voices are sending a powerful message across the border that they want security, dignity, and a future free from jihadist violence.
Lebanese Christian political activist Rawad Nassar says he wants Lebanon’s future relationship with Israel to improve.
Nassar contrasted that future with Hezbollah’s ideology, describing its goals as homicidal and suicidal, while arguing that Israelis and Jews simply want to live.
Lebanon’s future does not have to be defined by Hezbollah, Iran, or perpetual war. Voices like Nassar’s show that there are Lebanese who envision true sovereignty, coexistence, and ultimately peace with Israel.
Israel’s Ambassador to Colombia, Vivian Aisen, bid farewell to the 83-member Israeli rescue delegation after 11 days of working alongside Colombian teams in Cali.
Aisen thanked the rescuers for leaving their homes and families to provide critical assistance to the Colombian people, from search-and-rescue operations to engineering support and humanitarian aid.
Their mission did more than provide help in a moment of crisis. It demonstrated the growing partnership between Israel and Colombia through action on the ground.
After 11 days in Cali, Colombia’s Vice President Juan Manuel Restrepo thanked Israel’s 83-member rescue mission for its work alongside Colombian teams. 🇨🇴🇮🇱
According to Restrepo, the Israeli delegation supported efforts that recovered 29 people from the rubble with dignity, helped assess damaged educational infrastructure, and delivered another humanitarian aid shipment containing approximately 7 tons of medical supplies.
From search and rescue to engineering expertise and medical assistance, Israeli teams came to Colombia to help when it mattered most.
In an exclusive for Beirut-based outlet This Is Beirut, Israeli creator Selena Ryan brought together Israelis with a simple invitation to their Lebanese neighbors: come visit, experience Tel Aviv, and meet Israelis for yourselves.
Ryan says the idea has become a viral trend among Lebanese audiences, reflecting a desire for greater people-to-people connections and real-world experiences beyond decades of conflict.
Tel Aviv Vice Mayor Guy Avner joined the message, expressing his hope to one day welcome Lebanese visitors to Tel Aviv, and to visit Beirut himself.
Faith and solidarity are strengthening the ties between Colombia and Israel. 🇨🇴🇮🇱
Roni Kaplan, representing Israel’s search-and-rescue delegation in Colombia, visited Misión Paz, a major Christian church and social foundation in Cali, where he spoke about faith, unity, and prayer for both nations.
The moment came as Israeli teams continue their humanitarian mission in Colombia, working alongside local partners in the aftermath of disaster.
Beyond diplomacy and emergency assistance, he spoke about the connections between the Colombian and Israeli people, and the shared values that continue bringing them together.
Medical graduates from the University of Aleppo were filmed at their graduation ceremony chanting pro-Gaza slogans, including “I’m coming for you, my enemy” and lines about turning their own blood into ammunition and the enemy’s blood into rivers.
In context, these are not vague expressions of solidarity. They are clear threats directed at Israel, combined with language that glorifies violent sacrifice and martyrdom.
What makes this especially troubling is that these are newly graduated doctors — people who have just completed medical training and would be expected to uphold the principle of “do no harm.” Instead of messages of healing or peace, parts of the ceremony featured open celebration of the very violence their profession is meant to oppose.
The future of higher education and medicine should not be built on the glorification of terror and bloodshed.
