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Mickey
Gitzin
Executive Director in Israel, New Israel Fund
Israel
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Mickey Gitzin is the Director of the New Israel Fund in Israel. Prior to joining NIF, Mickey was the founding director of Israel Hofsheet (Be Free Israel), a leading grassroots organization fighting for Religious Freedom in Israel. Mickey served as a city council member in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.br /Previously, Mickey was the spokesperson for MK Ilan Gilon (Meretz) and the Associate Director of Festival BeShekel, an organization advancing arts and culture in Israel’s geographic and socioeconomic periphery. After completing his military service as an intelligence officer, he served as a shaliach (emissary) in South Bend, Indiana, for the Jewish Agency for Israel. Mickey holds a master’s in public policy from University College-London, for which he received a Chevening Scholarship from the British Foreign Office and the British Council and a BA in International Relations and Islamic and Middle-Eastern Studies from The Hebrew University./p/p

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