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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Druze Syrians in Sweida stood with Israeli society on the anniversary of October 7, commemorating the innocent victims and standing against Islamist jihad.
They thanked Israel for protecting them against the Islamist massacre perpetrated against the Druze minority at Mount Bashan and expressed their desire to be free from Islamist terror themselves.
🎥: Jethro Press
Three years after October 7, the global Christian community’s message to Israel remains unwavering: You are not alone. 🇮🇱
What started as a response to tragedy has grown into an unprecedented global movement of solidarity.
More than 5.2 million Israeli flags flew proudly across 4,375+ churches, universities, and organizations spanning 14 countries.
At a time of rising hatred, antisemitism, and isolation, this profound display of friendship means more than words can ever express. Thank you for standing steadfastly with Israel and the Jewish people.
More than 1,000 Christian leaders and influencers from 117 nations have arrived in Israel for the second annual Friends of Zion Ambassador Summit, marking three years since October 7.
At the October 7 gathering in Jerusalem, thousands will hear directly from Hamas captivity survivors, including Agam Berger, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Bar Kupershtein, and Evyatar David, as well as wounded soldiers and bereaved families.
This is what international solidarity looks like. Listening to those who lived through October 7, and standing alongside the Jewish people in their grief and resilience.
Israel is not alone. 🇮🇱✝️
It’s been three years since October 7.
We remember all the lives lost, and we stand with the families who carry that loss.
We stand with the Jewish people in remembering the massacre.
We will not look away.
Three years after October 7, a remarkable message of solidarity is coming from an unexpected place.
Today, residents of Syria’s Suwayda province, in the heart of the Druze Mountains, held a demonstration expressing solidarity with Israel and marking the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack.
Three years later, solidarity can cross borders. Druze in Suwayda stand with Israel. 🇮🇱
On October 7, Soroka Medical Center became a battlefield hospital.
As hundreds of wounded victims arrived from the Hamas massacre, doctors and nurses worked under fire, treating patient after patient while the attack was still unfolding.
Now, Israel’s KAN 11 has revealed footage from inside Soroka during those first hours.
Three years later, we remember the victims, and the medical teams who refused to stop fighting for their lives.
A screening about October 7 was interrupted at Northwestern University when a fire alarm sent the audience out of Cahn Auditorium.
The production, October 7: In Their Own Words, presents firsthand testimony from survivors of the Nova festival and nearby communities.
Footage from the evacuation shows attendees leaving as the alarm sounded. It remains unclear what triggered the alarm or whether it was deliberate.
Whatever the cause, the irony is impossible to miss: a room gathered to hear survivors tell the story of October 7 was suddenly forced to evacuate.
Their stories deserve to be heard.
There are 364 other days of the year to mourn Palestinian suffering.
Choosing October 7, the third anniversary of Hamas’s massacre of more than 1,200 people and the abduction of 251 hostages, to hold a “Vigil for Gaza” is not simply a choice of calendar date.
It’s been condemned by Jewish leaders and public officials as deeply insensitive, particularly when organizers frame October 7 as a date to “remember” Palestinian suffering while ignoring the massacre that began that day.
MTF National Spokesperson Taryn Thomas addresses the hypocrisy of demanding recognition for one community’s suffering while dismissing the grief of another, and the audacity of accusing Israelis and their supporters of trying to “steal the date.”
October 7 belongs in the historical record. It’s a day when Jewish families mourn loved ones murdered by Hamas and communities were shattered.
Remembering October 7 is not stealing anyone’s story. It’s refusing to let the massacre be forgotten.
