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”
The Latest From @MacTaskForce
The U.S. Department of War has ordered 30 American universities to conduct immediate security audits of their academic, financial, and research relationships with foreign entities of concern.
The Department says the action is intended to protect taxpayer-funded research from unauthorized technology transfers, intellectual property theft, and exploitation by foreign adversaries. Universities must review sensitive research, address problematic partnerships, and report their findings and actions by August 31.
Israeli Jews and American Christians have long been digging side-by-side to uncover the mysteries of ancient Bethsaida on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
The excavation began in 2016 as a partnership involving Israeli archaeologists and American Christian scholars and students. Researchers have uncovered evidence of an ancient Jewish fishing village and a Byzantine basilica traditionally associated with Peter and Andrew. Bethsaida is identified in the New Testament as the hometown of Peter, Andrew, and Philip.
Today, the project is entering its 10th excavation season, another example of Christians and Jews working together to preserve and better understand the history that connects both faiths to the Land of Israel.
🎥: State of Israel
Saudi school textbooks are continuing to undergo gradual but notable changes in tone toward Israel, non-Muslims, and coexistence.
According to IMPACT-se’s July 2026 review of Saudi textbooks from 2024–2026, a Grade 11 textbook removed the phrase “The Muslims will never give up Jerusalem,” while other revisions softened or removed some hostile language surrounding Israel and Zionism.
The report also identifies broader curriculum changes emphasizing coexistence, tolerance, and critical thinking, alongside reductions in some language promoting religious exclusivity.
Education shapes generations, and incremental changes toward greater tolerance and coexistence are worth recognizing.
🎥: i24 News
A Lebanese woman who was exiled to Israel at just five years old is sharing a vision that too often gets drowned out by war: peace, open borders, and a free Lebanon.
She dreams of the day Israelis and Lebanese can cross the border freely, visit one another, and live as neighbors rather than enemies.
Lebanon deserves sovereignty and a future determined by the Lebanese people, not by Hezbollah or the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose influence has helped turn Lebanon into a front in a wider regional conflict.
Hezbollah and Tehran will not control Lebanon’s future forever. There are Lebanese and Israelis who still believe another future is possible, and their voices deserve to be heard.
🎥: i24 News
A new chapter for Israel-Colombia relations is beginning. 🇮🇱🇨🇴
Israel’s new Ambassador to Colombia, Vivian Aisen, is on her way to Bogotá to begin her tenure, promising to continue strengthening the renewed alliance between the two countries.
Aisen is a veteran diplomat who previously served as Israel’s ambassador to North Macedonia and headed the Foreign Ministry’s Central America Department. Her arrival comes as Israel and Colombia work to fully restore diplomatic relations after ties were severed in 2024.
Here’s to a new era of cooperation, friendship, and stronger ties between the Israeli and Colombian people. 🇮🇱🤝🇨🇴
“Colombia, Israel is with you.” 🇮🇱🇨🇴
APT News captured Israeli search-and-rescue teams working around the clock alongside Colombian responders following the devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake. Hundreds remain missing as crews continue searching the rubble for survivors.
Israel sent an urban search-and-rescue delegation to join the international response, bringing personnel and expertise to communities devastated by the disaster.
When every minute matters, cooperation saves lives. Israel is standing with the Colombian people when they need it most.
🎥: APT
Portugal’s attorney general has been asked to investigate disturbing allegations of antisemitic harassment, incitement, death threats, and violence at the University of Coimbra.
Doctoral student Bar Harel says materials on campus included Hezbollah flags, support for Hamas, a poster calling Yahya Sinwar a “hero,” and slogans including “Attack your local Zionist.” He also alleges he was physically assaulted for carrying an Israeli flag and received a threat that his family deserved “a second Holocaust.”
The case was referred for potential investigation after Portugal’s ombudsman found the university had shown “substantial passivity” in addressing Harel’s complaints. The university disputes that it failed to assist him.
Universities must protect their students, and serious allegations like these demand accountability.
Photos: Bar Harel/ @ynet
Watchdog organization UN Watch alleges that the UN honored a longtime UNRWA school principal who was also a Hamas field commander.
According to UN Watch, Imad El Samhouri spent more than a decade as an UNRWA teacher and principal while also serving as a field commander in Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, an accusation backed by many videos showing him emerging from terror tunnels, and speaking about jihad.
Yet at a June UN memorial, Secretary-General António Guterres and General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock helped light an eternal flame honoring fallen UN personnel, with El Samhouri’s name read aloud.
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer is now demanding they retract the tribute, apologize to Hamas’s victims, and launch an independent investigation into how an alleged Hamas commander was able to run UNRWA schools for years.
