Fida Nara Tabony is Co-Director of the Programs Department at the New Israel Fund. She began her work at NIF as the Director of Shatil’s Haifa office and Program Manager of Nasij نسيج  ("tapestry"): Strengthening Palestinian-Israeli Civil Society. Fida holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and a Master’s degree in Gender Studies, from Bar-Ilan University.

From 2013-2021, Fida Co-directed the Jewish-Arab partnership organization Mahapach-Taghir . Prior to that, she managed the social change unit at Women Against Violence from 2000-2013. Throughout her career, she has worked as a moderator for leadership development and community organizing groups and as a student counselor. She has also facilitated training courses on gender–sensitivity in management, both in Israel and abroad.

Alongside her professional experience, Fida is a social and political activist focusing on social and feminist issues within Palestinian-Israeli society as well as equality, partnership, and the struggle against the occupation. Among her voluntary activities, she co-founded the Popular Committee in Nazareth in 2019 to combat crime and violence in Arab-Israeli society and the “Women Against Guns” coalition, which works to influence government policy on crime and the proliferation of illegal weapons. She was also among the founders of the Emergency Feminist Headquarters during the COVID-19 pandemic and Huria, a Palestinian-Israeli organization working to combat the occupation within Israeli society. In addition, she is an alumna of the Alliance For Israel’s Future fellowship program.

Fida was born in Nazareth and grew up in the Arab-Jewish community of Neve Shalom. Today she lives in Nazareth.