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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Big news from Wits University in South Africa! 🇿🇦
The W, an incredible organization founded by star alumni of MTF trips, has been named runner-up in the Most Outstanding New CSO category at the 2026 Student Leadership Awards.
This recognition celebrates the impact of students who are turning their convictions into action and building communities on campus — uniting rather than dividing.
We’re proud to see MTF trip alumni creating lasting change and standing up for their values long after their trips end.
The impact doesn’t end when the trip does. It’s only the beginning.
Captain Smit Machchhar has been awarded the UAE’s prestigious Order of Zayed II (First Class) in recognition of his extraordinary bravery during the FlyDubai flight emergency.
Brave Israeli passengers stepped in to help subdue the attacker and protect the captain and everyone aboard, risking their own safety to prevent a potential tragedy.
Captain Machchhar’s professionalism and the courage of those Israeli passengers remind us that, in moments of crisis, people can come together across nationalities to protect one another.
Congratulations, Captain Machchhar. We hope once day you’ll one day be able to meet all those whose lives you helped save on that day. True heroes deserve to be recognized.
Jewish students in Solon, Ohio, are speaking out to demand accountability.
At a Solon Board of Education meeting, four students from Solon schools and four community members shared their experiences following reports of Nazi salutes and antisemitic language targeting Jewish middle school students on Cultural Awareness Day.
They refuse to let this incident be brushed aside. Students deserve to be heard, their experiences taken seriously, and those responsible held accountable.
When Jewish students speak up about antisemitism, school leaders must listen, and school board’s must act.
An event meant to celebrate diversity became an occasion for Jewish students to be targeted with antisemitism.
During Cultural Awareness Day at Solon Middle School in Ohio on October 22, students reported Nazi salutes, cries of “Heil Hitler,” and antisemitic comments about Jews and money.
One seventh grader told the school board that he wore a kippah and a shirt reading “Shalom” to celebrate his Jewish identity. In the middle of class, he says another student responded by giving him a Nazi salute.
Students, parents, and community members packed a subsequent Board of Education meeting to demand that the incidents be taken seriously and that the district do more to confront antisemitism.
The district says disciplinary consequences were issued and that it has reached out to the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish Federation of Cleveland for guidance on additional education.
Jewish children should never have to hide who they are to avoid Nazi gestures, slurs, or humiliation at school.
Cultural awareness means little if Jewish students cannot safely and proudly express their own identity. Schools must confront antisemitism when it appears and make clear that anti-Jewish hatred has no place in the classroom.
A remarkable report from Israel’s elections: three polling stations in an Arab town in the north reportedly closed after reaching 100% turnout among eligible voters in their respective areas.
It’s a striking example of civic participation and the importance of having a real a voice in the democratic process.
Arab citizens of Israel are voters, elected officials, and participants in the country’s political future.
Israel’s 2026 election saw extraordinary participation among Arab citizens, with turnout estimated at nearly 80%.
Early exit polls projected the country’s two major Arab-led parties could win a combined 18-19 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, nearly doubling their representation from the outgoing parliament.
Whatever the final results, these numbers matter in any serious discussion of Israel’s democracy and the political participation of its Arab citizens.
Arab citizens of Israel have the right to vote, elect their own representatives, organize political parties, and play a meaningful role in determining the country’s political future.
This election is a powerful reminder that Arab voters are not spectators in Israeli democracy. They are participants in it.
You may know her as Wonder Woman but early this morning, Israeli actress Gal Gadot cast her vote in the Israeli elections and called on others to head to the polls today.
In these historic elections, Hollywood stars are participating.
Nazi salutes and antisemitic abuse in WhatsApp groups are just two examples of the hatred Jewish students face on university campuses.
Jewish graduates have told UK outlet LBC that students must not suffer in silence after experiencing antisemitism, with reported cases on campus significantly higher since October 7.
No student should have to choose between their Jewish identity and feeling safe at university. Institutions must take complaints seriously, enforce their policies, and hold perpetrators accountable.
Jewish students deserve more than words of support. They deserve campuses where antisemitism is confronted, not tolerated.
