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”
The Latest From @MacTaskForce
Former Columbia University student organizer Mahmoud Khalil just filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the institution and School of International and Public Affairs Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, who is Israeli, alleging that the school demonstrated deliberate indifference to the harassment and discrimination faced by Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students.
The lawsuit inverts the campus tensions following the events of October 7, claiming that the university failed to adequately respond to safety concerns, threats, and doxxing campaigns (against ״pro-Palestinian״ activists) as well as accusing it of cracking down on student activism.
Khalil, who became a central figure in the campus protests as well as the subject of federal immigration scrutiny, is trying to argue that the administration’s inaction created a hostile environment for campus anti-Israel actors.
The legal action is just another sign that anti-Israel activity at elite universities isn’t slowing down.
Koreans marched through the heart of Seoul carrying large Israeli flags, holding banners, and chanting in support of Israel’s fight to defend itself from genocidal terror.
Demonstrators pushed back directly against Hamas propaganda and their perpetual victim narrative, showing that global support for a secure Israel is still a reality beyond news headlines.
When everyday people can see through the anti-Israel narratives so often pushed by media and continue stand on the right side of history, that matters.
Beyond the headlines and political talking points, what do young citizens of Israel actually want to ask each other?
In a powerful new interview from the “All of Us” project, two Jewish and one Arab citizen of Israel sat down to break through the noise.
They tackled the heavy stuff head-on, discussing identity, the IDF, and navigating complex personal perspectives without scripts or media filters.
Instead of feeding into the division the rest of the world is constantly handed, they found common ground through real-life observation and honest dialogue. This is what a shared society actually looks like on the ground.
🎥: kulanu
After NAZA, a documentary built around anonymous allegations from Israeli military and intelligence insiders, won an award at the Venice Film Festival, Israelis who survived Hamas captivity are refusing to stay silent.
Former hostage Eliya Cohen condemned the film and its creators, arguing that while Israeli soldiers risked their lives fighting Hamas and rescuing hostages, the filmmakers chose to bring one of the harshest possible portrayals of Israel to an international stage.
The issue is not whether Israeli policy can be criticized.
The issue is what happens when international audiences celebrate narratives about this war that foreground accusations against Israel while pushing Hamas, October 7, and the trauma of hostages into the background.
Cohen’s anger reflects something deeper than a film controversy.
It reflects the pain of Israelis who survived captivity, lost loved ones, and watched the world move quickly from the massacre of October 7 to accusations against the country fighting the terrorists who carried it out.
Art is not above criticism.
And survivors of Hamas captivity have every right to speak out when they believe their suffering — and the evil of the terrorists who kidnapped them — is being erased.
Israeli thriller series “Fauda” has climbed to the number one spot on Netflix in Lebanon, despite the two countries remaining formally at war.
Even more striking, its fifth season directly confronts the trauma of October 7, the worst massacre against Jews since the Holocaust, and the realities of the ongoing conflict.
The show’s popularity in Arab countries is a reminder that across real geographic and political divides, human stories, complex characters, and powerful storytelling can still command attention and spark curiosity on both sides.
Malaysian authorities have intensified their crackdown on Israeli commerce, seizing three additional containers bound for Israel’s Ashdod Port at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas.
The detained shipments, which carried electric-bike components from a Chinese manufacturer, have been held by customs officials for nearly a month following an earlier August interception.
The initial seizure involved a container originating from the Philippines addressed to Israeli defense technology firm Elbit Systems.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s administration has openly defended the actions, stating that the nation will not serve as a transit route for trade supporting Israel.
Malaysia maintains a strict policy prohibiting direct or indirect trade, alongside a sweeping ban blocking Israeli-linked vessels from utilizing its ports.
Bridging cultures and continents in a powerful display of shared hope, communities in South Korea are warmly celebrating Rosh Hashanah by extending heartfelt wishes for peace, unity, and deep togetherness between the Korean people and the people of Israel.
As the Jewish New Year begins, this cross-cultural solidarity highlights an enduring bond rooted in mutual respect and a shared vision for a harmonious future.
Such expressions of friendship should remind us that the pursuit of peace and the celebration of life resonate universally across every border. 🇰🇷🇮🇱🍎🍯
During the annual gathering of the Christian Phalange Party, prominent Lebanese publicist Saleh Mashnouk addressed the crowd with a new vision for the future of the his country’s relationship with Israel.
He articulated what many Lebanese have begun to express, a desire to shift from the status quo of perpetual hostility, declaring that what Lebanon needs is true and lasting peace with Israel, rather than a temporary ceasefire.
His remarks underscore a growing sentiment among independent voices in Lebanon who are challenging the grip of terror proxy Hezbollah and demanding a sovereign future centered on regional normalization and co-existence.
