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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Thousands of Christian allies recently gathered at Dam Square in Amsterdam to stand in solidarity with Israel, sending a powerful message against rising hate.
Israeli Ambassador to the Netherlands Zvi A. Vapni addressed the massive crowd via video message, offering words of deep appreciation for their steadfast support.
Reflecting on the unity and resilience displayed at the rally, Ambassador Vapni shared a vital truth on X: “Truth will prevail over lies, and courage over intimidation.”
An analysis by the Jewish Federations of North America reveals that Jewish communal institutions across the United States have spent a record-shattering $1 billion on security over the past year.
Covering more than 4,500 synagogues, schools, community centers, and camps, this staggering expenditure reflects a 33% increase from previous estimates as antisemitism surges nationwide.
Community leaders emphasized that every dollar diverted to guards, cameras, and building security is a dollar taken away from Jewish education, elder care, and other social programs.
When celebrities, artists, and public figures casually chant or display the slogan “Free Palestine,” they are detached from the devastating reality of how those words are experienced on the ground. Many Jewish people do not hear that phrase in a vacuum. They hear words that have been shouted during murders, firebombings, stabbings, synagogue threats, and vile antisemitic harassment.
This phenomenon isn’t abstract or isolated. The slogan has been invoked during real-world bloodshed, from lethal attacks and shootings targeting Jewish individuals and gatherings to brutal assaults right outside community centers. Murder and terror have echoed alongside those exact words, making it utterly inexcusable and chilling to encounter during spaces meant to be safe, open, and apolitical.
Music, art, and community events in particular should be sacred sanctuaries that unite people across differences, not battlegrounds used to politicize and target the fundamental right to existence of one specific group of people.
When hatred and intimidation infiltrate these spaces under the guise of political discourse, society is failing in its most basic moral duty to protect human dignity.
Ed Sheeran finally addressed the Macklemore debacle, commenting on the Israel-Palestine conflict from the stage during his concert last night, speaking about both October 7th and the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Sheeran explicitly called the October 7 attack on Israel “horrific” and acknowledged the centuries of Jewish pain behind it, but he also described the situation in Gaza as “unjustifiable, and disproportionate”.
He also emphasized that he wants his concerts to remain spaces for unity, humanity, and people with opposing views, rather than political division.
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita announced a major upgrade in relations between their two nations.
Upgrading relations beyond basic diplomatic communication, the two countries agreed to formally elevate their liaison offices into full embassies and appoint official ambassadors.
Emphasizing that the friendship between the Moroccan and Jewish peoples shares deep roots and a rich history, Foreign Minister Sa’ar outlined practical steps to drive mutual growth.
This includes finalizing comprehensive investment-protection agreements by the end of 2026 to unlock new business ventures, having Moroccan carriers launch new direct flights in the coming weeks, and fostering tourism through high-level leadership visits.
When strategic partnerships focus on tangible economic, cultural, and diplomatic cooperation, the future of regional integration grows stronger.
During a high-level trilateral meeting in New York hosted by U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, Israel and Morocco agreed to formally upgrade their diplomatic relations.
The two countries will elevate their existing liaison offices to full embassies and appoint official ambassadors.
Beyond the diplomatic upgrade, the agreement lays out concrete steps to deepen economic and cultural ties by the end of 2026, including finalizing investment protection and double taxation agreements, expanding direct flight options, and scheduling reciprocal high-level visits.
The U.S. State Department has announced an extension of visa sanctions denying entry to officials of the Palestinian Authority and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly.
The decision follows determinations that Palestinian leadership has repeatedly failed to meet key commitments under U.S. law.
Specifically, the State Department cited ongoing actions to bypass direct negotiations in pursuit of adversarial legal measures in international bodies like the ICJ and ICC. It also cited its goal to distribute stipends that reward and glorify acts of terrorism.
According to Israel’s Ambassador to the UAE, Yossi Shelley, Kuwait could potentially join the Abraham Accords within the next four to six months. While Kuwait has historically maintained a strict stance against normalization, the envoy suggested that shifting regional realities are opening doors to unexpected diplomatic breakthroughs.
As discussions around expanding the accords continue to develop, regional cooperation may find new footing even in unexpected places.
