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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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.
Israel’s new Ambassador to Colombia, Vivian Aisen, told Colombian outlet La FM that the new visa agreement will make it easier for Israeli businesspeople to travel to Colombia and pursue new commercial opportunities.
Aisen also highlighted what Israel can bring to the partnership including advanced technologies, medical equipment, and innovative solutions that can benefit Colombians.
As relations strengthen, so does the potential for more business, investment, innovation, and cooperation between the two countries.
In testimony circulating from an October 2023 interrogation, a purported Hamas operative claims senior Hamas officials hid in hospitals, particularly Al-Shifa, because they believed Israel would hesitate to strike medical facilities. Independent reporting and subsequent evidence have also documented Hamas’s use of hospitals and civilian infrastructure for terror purposes. More recent intelligence revealed that Hamas is now using hospital infrastructure to interrogate and control Gazans.
Hospitals and other civilian infrastructure should never be used to create or sustain human shields for terrorist organizations.
Israel is expanding its humanitarian assistance to Colombia. 🇮🇱🇨🇴
One week after a joint Israeli Foreign Ministry and IDF Home Front Command rescue and humanitarian delegation arrived in Colombia, Israel is sending an additional five tons of medical supplies and emergency-care equipment.
The shipment was organized under the direction of Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, in coordination with Israel’s Ministry of Health, as Israeli teams continue working alongside their Colombian counterparts.
🎥: Israel MFA
A group of seven French Jewish tourists leaving a synagogue in Barcelona say they were surrounded by hundreds of people, spat on, humiliated, threatened, and pursued back to their hotel.
Jimmy Zaghroun, a 41-year-old French Jew from Paris, described 40 terrifying minutes during which the crowd allegedly shouted “Jews are not wanted here,” “Death to Israel,” and even threatened to kill Jews. One member of the group, visibly Jewish in a black kippah and traditional clothing, became a particular target.
Zaghroun says telling the crowd they were French, not Israeli, made no difference. They were targeted because they were Jews.
Spanish authorities are investigating, and Zaghroun has filed a formal complaint.
Israel says Hamas is using one of Gaza’s major hospitals as a site for interrogations, torture, and extortion.
According to intelligence released by the IDF and Shin Bet, Hamas Internal Security and Military Intelligence personnel are conducting interrogations inside the Yassin Building at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, specifically on the second floor of the outpatient clinics. Israeli authorities allege that Palestinians brought there have been tortured and extorted as Hamas attempts to maintain its control over Gaza.
This is a hospital, somewhere Gazans should be able to seek medical treatment without fear. Instead, Hamas is accused of turning it into an instrument of regime repression.
Hamas isn’t only a threat to Israelis. Its own authoritarian rule continues to endanger the lives of Palestinians as well.
🎥: IDF
Israeli doctors have carried out a world-first experimental treatment for recurring brain tumors.
At Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, physicians used targeted alpha radiation to treat recurrent brain tumors, delivering highly potent radiation directly to the tumor while aiming to minimize damage to surrounding healthy tissue. The technology was developed in collaboration with Hadassah’s Sharett Institute of Oncology and Israeli company Alpha Tau Medical.
The first patients received the experimental treatment as part of a clinical study examining its safety and effectiveness.
From cancer research to cutting-edge medical technology, Israeli innovation continues pushing the boundaries of what medicine can achieve.
A new study suggests that the very offices tasked with promoting diversity and inclusion at Canadian universities are falling short when it comes to Jewish students.
Published in the journal Canadian Jewish Studies, the study, led by professor Lilach Marom of Simon Fraser University, examined how Jewish identity and antisemitism are treated within university EDI frameworks. Among the 136 Jewish faculty and staff responses analyzed, the findings pointed to a significant gap between experiences of antisemitism and confidence in institutional responses particularly after October 7th.
Jewish members of Canadian institutions of higher education shouldn’t be the exception to inclusion. Antisemitism must be recognized and confronted with the same seriousness as every other form of hate.
