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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A professor who shared a call to stab “Zionists” is now suing to overturn Arkansas’ antisemitism law.
Dr. Shirin Saeidi was fired after sharing a violent post which praised Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and called for Israel’s dismantlement. Despite a unanimous faculty committee recommendation to reinstate her, the university upheld her dismissal.
This lawsuit, and the unanimous decision by the faculty committee, both call into question the University of Arkansas’s culture of antisemitism. Though policy did its job to keep this individual with violent ideology out of academia, what does it say that her peers wanted to excuse it?
A Dutch attendee at a recent Christians for Israel dinner shared a beautiful message that perfectly captures the impact of global solidarity:
“Tonight at the Christians for Israel dinner, surrounded by so many people with their hearts in the right place. Their warm support for Israel and our Jewish community touches us deeply. In difficult times, it means so much to know that we are not standing alone.”
We extend our deepest gratitude to our Christian allies in the Netherlands and across the globe. Your steadfast friendship, your vocal support, and your willingness to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Jewish community gives us strength. We do not stand alone. 💙
Following the October 9 earthquake in Panama, Israel is stepping in to help.
Through its embassy, and in cooperation with local authorities, Israel is providing drinking water to residents facing shortages and delivering essential food supplies to affected communities.
For Israel, protecting innocent lives is a moral obligation that extends beyond borders, nationality, and circumstance. Humanitarian aid is a vital expression of that commitment.
For the first time since the historic Abraham Accords normalized relations between the two countries, an official Israeli Air Force delegation participated in the Marrakech Airshow in Morocco.
The visit included a meeting with the commander of the Royal Moroccan Air Force, and discussions on strengthening strategic ties and expanding professional cooperation between the two Air Force branches.
This event represents a meaningful step forward in Israel-Morocco relations, building mutual trust, and advancing security and technological collaboration.
On the third anniversary of October 7, demonstrators gathered outside Oregon Hillel to demand the Jewish students organization’s removal from campus and chant, “Glory to the martyrs of the Al-Aqsa Flood (Hamas’s name for its October 7 attack).
Jewish students deserve safety, not intimidation. Praising the perpetrators of a massacre is not activism, but glorification of terrorism.
University of Oregon @uoregon, no one should have to say Jewish students not should be discriminated against. Where is the accountability?
According to survey findings published by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, 85% of Jewish university students surveyed in Germany reported concealing their Jewish identity at least once during the 2024–2025 academic year.
The findings, drawn from an Anti-Defamation League survey, also indicate that approximately one in three respondents knew Jewish students who had been physically threatened or attacked.
No student should have to hide who they are to feel safe on campus, regardless of their identity. German universities must confront antisemitism to protect their Jewish students.
At least 12 people have been killed and more than 300 injured in a Houthi missile attack on a Saudi airport, according to reports, including an American citizen.
The attack is a signal of the continued threat posed by Houthi militants and other Islamic Republic of Iran regime-backed militant terror groups to regional security and civilian lives at large.
The threat posed by the regime and its network of terror-proxies, including that against Iranians themselves, is still misunderstood by so many in the West.
Two Jewish schools in Brooklyn were evacuated after receiving bomb threats just six minutes apart. No explosives were found, and students and staff were safe.
Even when threats turn out to be false, the fear and disruption imposed on Jewish communities pose a real risk to Jewish community welfare.
No child should have to fear for their safety simply for attending a Jewish school, and the moment these threats aren’t taken seriously the outcome could be far more dire.
