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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A screening about October 7 was interrupted at Northwestern University when a fire alarm sent the audience out of Cahn Auditorium.
The production, October 7: In Their Own Words, presents firsthand testimony from survivors of the Nova festival and nearby communities.
Footage from the evacuation shows attendees leaving as the alarm sounded. It remains unclear what triggered the alarm or whether it was deliberate.
Whatever the cause, the irony is impossible to miss: a room gathered to hear survivors tell the story of October 7 was suddenly forced to evacuate.
Their stories deserve to be heard.
There are 364 other days of the year to mourn Palestinian suffering.
Choosing October 7, the third anniversary of Hamas’s massacre of more than 1,200 people and the abduction of 251 hostages, to hold a “Vigil for Gaza” is not simply a choice of calendar date.
It’s been condemned by Jewish leaders and public officials as deeply insensitive, particularly when organizers frame October 7 as a date to “remember” Palestinian suffering while ignoring the massacre that began that day.
MTF National Spokesperson Taryn Thomas addresses the hypocrisy of demanding recognition for one community’s suffering while dismissing the grief of another, and the audacity of accusing Israelis and their supporters of trying to “steal the date.”
October 7 belongs in the historical record. It’s a day when Jewish families mourn loved ones murdered by Hamas and communities were shattered.
Remembering October 7 is not stealing anyone’s story. It’s refusing to let the massacre be forgotten.
A siren is supposed to mean run to safety.
But on October 7, for many young Israelis fleeing the Nova music festival, even the bomb shelters meant to protect them became places of death.
MTF National Spokesperson Taryn Thomas reflects on footage of herself lying on the ground during a rocket attack in Israel, after she and fellow participants could not reach a shelter in time. She explains why, for Israelis remembering October 7, the sound of a siren can almost feel like the “good part,” because that day, so many people never had the chance to reach safety.
At Nova and nearby shelters, Hamas terrorists used automatic weapons, grenades, and RPGs against young people who were simply trying to survive. International investigators documented militants attacking shelters with grenades and machine-gun fire, including one shelter where an RPG was also used.
The places people ran to for protection became killing grounds.
Three years later, we must continue to remember what happened.
We must continue to remember the young lives stolen while they were desperately searching for somewhere safe.
Israel has found a powerful way to honor Captain Smit Machchhar: his face now stands on a massive billboard at Ad Halom, with a simple message written in both Hebrew and Hindi - “Thank you, hero. 🇮🇳🇮🇱”
After being seriously wounded during the attack aboard Flydubai FZ1073, Machchhar managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to intervene and helping avert a far greater tragedy.
His courage saved lives, and Israelis won’t soon forget his courage. Thank you, Captain Smit. India has a hero, and Israel will always remember his name. 🇮🇳🇮🇱
Almost three years after October 7, the Idan family has released the heartbreaking emergency call made by Michael, 9, and Amalia, 6, after their parents, Roy and Smadar, were murdered in Kfar Aza.
Their younger sister, Avigail, was just three years old when she was abducted to Gaza.
These were children calling the police because they had been left alone after Hamas terrorists murdered their parents.
The unimaginable reality of October 7th is still impossible to comprehend for some whose lives will never be the same.
New details from the investigation into Flydubai FZ1073 are deeply disturbing.
According to The Jerusalem Post, investigators say co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami researched airlines operating routes to Tel Aviv and allegedly planned the attack before he was even hired by Flydubai. He allegedly intended to kill Captain Smit Machchhar, take control of the aircraft, and crash it into a Tel Aviv skyscraper or Ben Gurion Airport.
The plan was reportedly designed to avoid detection until it was too late.
Instead, Captain Machchhar fought back and opened the cockpit door, giving Israeli passengers and other crew members the opportunity to intervene and stop the attack.
Almost years after Hamas’s October 7 massacre, the people murdered that day are being remembered across the heart of New York City. Their photographs fill Times Square as a reminder that every victim had a face, a family, a story, and a life. They weren’t just statistics in a geopolitical conflict.
More than 1,200 people were murdered and more than 250 were taken hostage into Gaza.
May their memories always be blessed. 🕯️
🎥: Israel in New York
Three years after the October 7 massacre, a planned “pro-Palestine” march is set to take place in Britain on the anniversary itself.
On GB News, Nana Akua challenged political commentator Ben Smoke over the timing, arguing that holding such a demonstration on the anniversary of Hamas’ massacre shows a lack of compassion for the victims and their families.
Smoke responded by accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. Akua pushed back, questioning the use of that label and pointing out that the legal question of genocide remains contested internationally. The ICJ has not issued a final judgment determining that genocide occurred.
Three years on, October 7 should not be erased, minimized, or pushed aside. The anniversary of the attack should be set aside to remember the 1,200 people murdered by Hamas, and the hostages whose lives were shattered that day.
🎥: GB News
