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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New York taxpayers deserve transparency about how their money is being spent.
According to reporting by the New York Post, the Muslim American Society of Brooklyn and Staten Island is set to receive $85,000 in New York City Council discretionary funding after the organization came under scrutiny earlier this year for hosting a fundraiser where vendors reportedly sold merchandise featuring Hamas, Hezbollah, and PFLP imagery and other extremist slogans.
The City Council has said its review found no affiliation between the organization and the vendor involved, and that the funding was restored after the organization committed to stronger vendor-screening protocols.
But that does not end the public accountability question.
When taxpayer-funded spaces host events where terrorist symbols are promoted or sold, New Yorkers deserve to know what safeguards are in place, how those safeguards failed, and why public funding should continue without a higher standard of oversight.
Public money should never support the glorification of terrorism. Regardless of politics or ideology, every recipient of taxpayer funding should be held to the same standard of transparency, responsibility, and accountability.
Israeli creator Eli Yaakov spoke with Saad, a Syrian living in Germany, who described growing up believing he should hate Israel and anyone different from himself.
That worldview began to unravel when his imam started preaching hatred against Christians, forcing him to confront the fact that his own grandmother was an Armenian Christian. In questioning that prejudice, he also began questioning the hatred he had been taught toward Israel.
Coexistence happens when people are willing to challenge the narratives they inherit instead of accepting them unquestioningly. The courage to meet people, hear their stories, and let reality replace prejudice is one of the most powerful antidotes to hatred.
🎥 @eli.yaakov_, @saad.kayy
Several videos making the rounds on social media appear to show graduates at the University of Edinburgh choosing to use their commencement ceremony to demand the university divest from Israel.
Calls to boycott Israeli institutions represent the discriminatory targeting of scholars, researchers, and academic collaboration based solely on national origin, applying a standard that’s never imposed on any other country.
Universities should encourage the free exchange of ideas, not the exclusion of academic institutions because they are Israeli. Academic freedom can’t exist as long as discrimination is rebranded as activism.
In a conversation with Erica Wenger, Nas Daily reflected on how earning a scholarship to Harvard introduced him to Jewish classmates for the first time. It challenged the assumptions he’d grown up with and showed him the importance of meeting people before judging them.
That experience helped shape the mission behind Nas Daily: bringing people together instead of pushing them further apart.
At a time when so many profit from division, choosing dialogue over demonization is how prejudice is challenged, stereotypes are broken, and understanding begins.
The path to peace has never started with refusing to see one another’s humanity. It starts with real life experiences and conversations between people.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Happy 250th Independence Day, America!
Yesterday, Jerusalem’s Old City was illuminated with a special message honoring the United States’ 250th birthday, and created a powerful reminder of the enduring friendship between the two democracies.
For generations, the United States has stood for liberty, opportunity, and the defense of democratic values. Today, we celebrate that legacy and deep bond between the American and Israeli people.
As America celebrates 250 years of independence, we celebrate a nation unlike any other: a country founded on the revolutionary idea that liberty is not granted by government, but belongs by right to every human being.
For two and a half centuries, that promise has inspired generations, welcomed communities from around the world, and changed the course of history.
That promise must extend to Jewish students, too.
No student should be harassed for wearing a Star of David. No student should be intimidated for supporting Israel’s right to exist. And no campus should tolerate discrimination when it is disguised as activism.
Freedom only means something when it belongs to everyone.
This Fourth of July, we celebrate America’s enduring greatness while reaffirming our commitment to ensuring that Jewish students can learn, lead, and thrive without fear.
Happy 250th Birthday, America. 🇺🇸
Congratulations to Danielle Yablonka on being crowned Miss Israel 2026! 🇮🇱👑
We’re especially proud to celebrate her as one of our own! As a former MTF student leader at Florida Atlantic University, Danielle demonstrated a commitment to leadership, education, and strengthening the connection between students from all walks of life and Israel long before stepping onto the international stage.
Her journey is a reminder that representing Israel comes with carrying the country’s story with pride, resilience, and confidence in the face of many challenges.
Congratulations, Danielle, on this incredible achievement. We know you’ll represent Israel with grace, strength, and distinction.
From your MTF family, we wish you every success as Miss Israel 2026. 💙🇮🇱
Jewish public officials are being targeted not because they share the same politics, but because they share the same identity.
Since October 7, Jewish elected officials from across the political spectrum have faced harassment, vandalism, death threats, intimidation, and even violence. Progressives like Scott Wiener have been confronted and chased from events despite publicly criticizing Israel. Democrats like Josh Shapiro have seen their families targeted. Representatives Jared Moskowitz, Dan Goldman, and Max Miller have all reportedly faced antisemitic threats or attacks tied to their Jewish identity or support for Israel.
That is what makes today’s version of antisemitism so dangerous. For many extremists, criticizing Israel isn’t enough. Distancing yourself from Israel is not enough. Simply being a Jewish public figure, or refusing to renounce the Jewish state entirely can make you a target.
When Jewish leaders with vastly different political views are all being singled out, the pattern speaks for itself. This isn’t about policy, it’s about criminalizing Jewish identity in the court of public opinion.
