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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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.
The St. Louis Blues have condemned an anti-Israel sign incident at a recent game, calling it “unfortunate and unforgivable.”
Blues Chairman Tom Stillman confirmed that law enforcement immediately confiscated the banners and removed the protesters, explicitly describing the incident as antisemitism.
Antisemitism has no place in sports, or anywhere in society. No community should have to face hatred in spaces meant for people to come together.
🎥: First Alert 4
From Golda Meir to Arab leaders of the era, these vintage photos shared by Hadassah Magazine capture Israelis from different backgrounds exercising their democratic right to vote. This snapshot of the former Prime Minister was taken in 1969.
Israel’s elections have a long and fascinating history, reflecting the country’s diverse society and the many voices that shape its future.
As Israelis head to the polls, these throwbacks offer a reminder that democracy is built on participation, debate, and the freedom to choose who represents you.
In one country with many voices, every vote counts. 🗳️🇮🇱
📷: Hadassah Magazine
Maccabi Ashdod hosted a delegation from Allen University, a historically Black university in South Carolina, for a joint basketball practice and exhibition game in Israel focused on bringing communities together and confronting antisemitism and racism through sport.
Israeli and American players trained and competed side by side, building connections through teamwork, mutual respect, and a shared love of basketball.
At a time when fewer international groups are traveling to Israel, the visit carried meaning beyond the court.
It was a reminder that personal relationships can cut through division, bring people from different backgrounds together, and help build stronger bridges between communities.
Jewish musicians from Arab countries helped shape the rich musical traditions of the Middle East. Today, an Israeli ensemble keeps that legacy alive, performing Arabic music composed by Egyptian, Iraqi, and other Jewish composers whose communities were uprooted and fled to Israel.
Jewish history spans continents and millennia. Long before modern political borders, Jewish communities lived across the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and beyond.
Jews are not outsiders to the Middle East. Their history, culture, and music are deeply woven into its fabric.
🎥: X/ ruthzakh
On TalkTV, Campaign Against Antisemitism CEO Gideon Falter challenged the National Education Union’s pushback against key recommendations from Sir David Bell’s landmark review of antisemitism in English schools.
The NEU has opposed recommending the IHRA working definition of antisemitism for schools and criticized proposals for stronger guidance on political impartiality.
Falter also pointed to NEU General Secretary Daniel Kebede’s past call to “globalise the intifada.” An independent review of the union published this year found no evidence of systemic antisemitism, but did find that some pro-Israel and Zionist members and staff suppress their views because dissenting opinions are often met with hostility.
Bell’s review found that nearly three in five Jewish pupils aged 16-19 surveyed had experienced or witnessed antisemitism. The UK government has accepted all 27 of its recommendations.
At a moment when Jewish students are reporting antisemitism at this scale, schools and the organizations representing educators have a responsibility to confront the problem seriously.
Jewish students deserve classrooms where antisemitism is recognized, challenged, and never allowed to become normal.
Hindus in Tel Aviv are celebrating Dussehra, a festival marking the triumph of good over evil.
Israel is home to people of many faiths, and Hindus are free to celebrate their traditions and practice their religion here, too.
Religious freedom means protecting the right of everyone to worship freely. That includes Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and people of every faith.
A country where diverse communities can celebrate their beliefs openly is a country worth celebrating.
🎥: @saulsadka
A 22-year-old Utah man has been federally charged over an alleged plot to carry out a violent attack on a synagogue.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Skyler AJ Rose allegedly threatened to “blow up a synagogue,” vowed to kill Jews, posted “Death to Israel” and “heil hitler” online, and searched for a synagogue near him.
When law enforcement searched his home, they recovered six functional improvised pipe bombs, explosive materials, two rifles, and ammunition.
Thankfully, this alleged plot was stopped before anyone was hurt.
Jewish communities must be able to worship without fear of targeted violence. Threats fueled by antisemitism must be taken seriously, investigated, and confronted before they become acts of violence.
Those accused of such crimes must be held accountable through due process.
Protecting Jewish lives means confronting antisemitism before threats become tragedy.
