As thousands of Israelis have protested government corruption in front of the prime minister's residence on Balfour Street, these peaceful demonstrations have often been met with water cannons, unlawful arrests, and other violent tactics from police.

For many protesters, this is their first experience of police violence. But the fact of harsh policing at protests is not new for everyone. For Arab citizens, Ethiopian Israelis and other minority communities, police brutality has been a lived experience for decades.

How can we understand the current moment of police violence at protests within this broader context?

Join us for a Zoom briefing on Tuesday, October 27 at 1pm – 2:30pm Eastern / 10am – 11:30am Pacific as we take deep look at the relationship between citizens and police in Israel from a variety of perspectives.

With Attorney Gaby Lasky, a human rights lawyer who defends activists across issues and communities, Fida Nara Tabony, co-director of NIF grantee Mahapach-Taghir, Efrat Yerday, chair of NIF grantee the Association of Ethiopian Jews, and Oren Ziv, a prominent photojournalist, founder of ActiveStills and staff photographer at +972 Magazine.

We will discuss efforts on-the-ground to confront and to end police violence from the frames of a veteran photojournalist who has covered every major protest in Israel and the occupied territories, a veteran human rights lawyer who has represented activists detained by police in Israel and the West Bank, and Arab and Ethiopian civil society leaders who have led the struggle against police violence in Israel.

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