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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An extraordinary show of solidarity with Israel in Lima, Peru. 🇵🇪🇮🇱
Tens of thousands of people gathered for the March of Life, bringing together evangelical Christians, members of Peru’s Jewish community, and friends of Israel to honor the memory of the Holocaust, stand against antisemitism, and express their support for Israel.
Thousands of miles from Jerusalem, the gathering sent a powerful message: Israel and the Jewish people have friends around the world who refuse to remain silent in the face of antisemitism and hatred.
At a time when Jewish communities around the world are confronting rising hostility, displays of solidarity like this matter.
Thank you to the people of Peru – and especially the evangelical Christian community that turned out in such extraordinary numbers — for standing with Israel and the Jewish people. 🇵🇪🇮🇱❤️
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer expressed that Israel’s partnership with America serves America’s own national interests, but a leader who refuses to serve America’s interests is the most dangerous of them all.
In a newly shared video, Dermer discusses the possibility that a future US president may be hostile toward Israel. He argues that this is something that can be addressed by demonstrating the critical value of its intelligence and security cooperation with the United States.
What concerns him far more is the prospect of an anti-American president in the White House.
His point is that the US-Israel alliance isn’t about political leaders or personal affinity. It’s built on shared strategic interests, intelligence, technology, and security.
The relationship benefits both countries. Understanding that mutual value is essential to preserving it, regardless of who is living in the White House.
As the UK government moves to strengthen protections against antisemitism in schools, it is facing a legal challenge over its decision to encourage schools and colleges to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism.
The Good Law Project has sent a pre-action letter to the Department for Education, arguing that use of the definition could restrict freedom of expression and legitimate criticism of Israel.
The government’s decision followed Sir David Bell’s independent review of antisemitism in English schools and colleges, which found antisemitism to be a significant and growing problem. Nearly three in five Jewish pupils aged 16-19 surveyed said they had experienced or witnessed antisemitism.
The IHRA definition is a non-legally binding framework intended to help identify antisemitism, including contemporary forms involving Israel. It also explicitly states that criticism of Israel comparable to criticism directed at any other country is not antisemitic.
Critics of the definition argue that some of its examples could discourage legitimate political speech. Supporters say it gives educators clearer tools for recognizing when criticism of Israel crosses into antisemitism.
Jewish students deserve schools where antisemitism is recognized and confronted, while legitimate political discussion remains possible.
The challenge now is ensuring that schools can do both.
US President Donald Trump says the United States will end its $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel by the end of 2026, under an agreement he says he reached with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump argued that Israel no longer needs the financial assistance, while emphasizing that the United States would continue selling weapons to Israel and provide help if needed.
The existing 10-year US-Israel military aid agreement, worth $38 billion, runs through 2028. It remains unclear how the proposed change would be implemented, and there has been no official public confirmation of the details from Netanyahu’s office.
Israel has long been one of America’s closest strategic allies. Its intelligence, military technology, and operational capabilities contribute to the security of both countries.
The future of US-Israel defense cooperation deserves serious discussion, grounded in the mutual strategic value of the alliance.
For the first time, the investigative documentary UNraveling UNRWA was screened inside United Nations headquarters, with dozens of diplomats in attendance.
The film examines UNRWA’s 75-year history and the serious controversies surrounding the agency, including allegations of corruption, Hamas infiltration, and the involvement of UNRWA personnel in terrorism. It draws on archival material and interviews with former UNRWA officials, researchers, and other experts.
The screening was organized by Israel’s delegation to the UN under Ambassador Danny Danon, bringing these questions directly before diplomats representing the international community.
And those questions are not theoretical.
A UN investigation found that nine UNRWA employees may have been involved in the October 7 attacks and terminated their employment. More recently, a U.S. government investigation referred more than 100 current and former UNRWA employees for possible suspension or debarment over alleged participation in October 7 and/or affiliation with Hamas’s military wing.
For years, Israel has warned about Hamas’s exploitation of UNRWA personnel and facilities. The scale of the allegations now demands serious scrutiny, transparency, and accountability.
An agency entrusted with educating children and delivering humanitarian aid cannot tolerate personnel who participate in terrorism or maintain ties to terrorist organizations. When credible evidence emerges, it must be investigated—and those responsible must be held accountable.
As Ambassador Danon said ahead of the screening: “This is a reality that can no longer be ignored.”
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar hosted Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev in Jerusalem. The deputy PM is leading a high-level delegation of more than 50 senior government officials and representatives of state-owned companies. Madiyev is the most senior Kazakh official to visit Israel in a decade.
The visit includes a meeting of the Israel–Kazakhstan Joint Economic Committee, alongside discussions with Israeli leaders and institutions working in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, space, innovation and technology.
Following President Isaac Herzog’s and Foreign Minister Sa’ar’s visits to Kazakhstan earlier this year, this high-level delegation reflects growing momentum in the relationship between the two countries.
From diplomacy to innovation and economic development, Israel and Kazakhstan are furthering functional partnerships in areas of opportunity for both nations.
A disturbing antisemitic image involving a student at Merrick Avenue Middle School on Long Island is now under police investigation.
The photo, recently posted to social media, shows a large swastika drawn across the student’s back alongside an explicit anti-Jewish message.
According to NBC New York, the student said the markings were drawn by friends while he was asleep over the summer. After the image surfaced online, school officials took disciplinary action and notified Nassau County Police.
Detectives have since visited both the school and the student’s home, and the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District says it is cooperating with the investigation.
Whatever the circumstances in which the image was created, swastikas and messages expressing hatred toward Jews cannot be dismissed as harmless behavior or a joke.
Young people need to understand what these symbols and words represent, and schools and communities have a responsibility to confront antisemitism when it appears.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has reached a settlement with the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education resolving 18 active civil rights investigations and a separate Justice Department compliance review, including scrutiny of antisemitism on campus.
Under the agreement, UNC must provide mandatory antisemitism training to all students, faculty, and staff; strengthen procedures for responding to antisemitism complaints; ensure Jewish and Israeli students are protected under its nondiscrimination policies; and sanction student groups that engage in antisemitic discriminatory conduct.
The university must also report antisemitism and race-discrimination complaints to federal officials on a quarterly basis and maintain oversight of its compliance through December 31, 2028.
The agreement does not constitute an admission of wrongdoing or liability, which UNC expressly denies.
But it does establish concrete obligations for how the university must prevent and respond to unlawful discrimination.
Jewish students deserve to learn in an environment where their safety, dignity, and equal treatment are protected.
Universities have a responsibility to take antisemitism seriously and to act when Jewish students’ civil rights are threatened.
