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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Mohammed came to Israel’s Sheba-Safra Children’s Hospital battling bone marrow cancer. Following the news that his treatment was successful, the entire medical team gathered to celebrate his recovery.
Moments like this remind us that Israel is an incredibly diverse country where people of all backgrounds work together to support each other.
Mohammed is a brave little guy who has overcome a lot. We are ecstatic that he is healthy and can go be a kid again!
Peter L. Biro, founder of the democracy and civics think tank Section 1, says he resigned is fellowship from Toronto’s Massey College after concluding that its commitment to truth-seeking had been replaced by ideological activism.
Reflecting on the state of Canadian higher education, Biro argues that too many universities have abandoned open inquiry in favor of political conformity, creating environments where antisemitism can flourish while dissenting voices are marginalized.
Universities should be places where ideas are tested through evidence and debate, not where activism replaces scholarship. When institutions forgo their commitment to intellectual honesty, it’s the students who suffer most.
17-year-old Druze Israeli Marwan Jaber is doing something powerful: telling Israel’s story from lived experience.
Speaking in Arabic, Marwan explained that Israel protects minorities and grants rights that are too often denied across the Middle East. His voice matters because it comes from a lived reality.
When people meet real Israelis who don’t fit the mold of what critics imagine, it becomes much harder to sustain the false narratives used to demonize Israel.
🎥: marwanjaber_il
A group of students in Somaliland shared that they think Israel’s history should be included in future curricula.
They pointed to the relationship between Israel and Somaliland, noting that Israel was the first country to formally recognize Somaliland’s independence.
These students’ curiosity reminds us that despite what the media portrays, Israel has a lot of potential friends out there!
Peace advocate and scholar Hussain Abdul-Hussain grew up in Lebanon believing the stories he had been told about Israel. Everything changed when he began listening to Israeli radio for himself.
What he discovered challenged years of indoctrination. The reality he encountered was completely different from the image he had grown up believing, leading him to conclude that the narratives he had been taught simply weren’t true.
His story is a powerful example that prejudice often survives only when people are prevented from hearing the other side. Real dialogue, firsthand experiences, and a willingness to question what we’ve been taught remain some of the most effective tools for breaking down hatred and building understanding.
🎥: Israel In USA
Following the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, Israeli search and rescue teams deployed to help save lives, and their efforts were publicly recognized and thanked by Venezuela’s acting President, Delcy Rodríguez.
In moments of crisis, Israel consistently chooses compassion over politics, sending doctors, rescue specialists, and humanitarian aid wherever they’re needed.
When disaster strikes, Israel focuses on humanity. The reality speaks for itself. 🇮🇱🤝🇻🇪
🎥: Israel MFA
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
