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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Just one day after French President Emmanuel Macron minimized Hamas control in the West Bank at the UN General Assembly, Israeli forces uncovered a tunnel being excavated in Qalqilya, Judea and Samaria, often referred to as the West Bank.
Israeli police said the tunnel was approximately 25 meters (82 feet) deep and still under construction, with a second tunnel excavation also discovered. Forces arrested four suspects and seized an M16 rifle, a sniper rifle, ammunition, and materials used to produce explosives.
France has since said Macron meant that Hamas does not govern the West Bank. But Hamas does not need to govern an area to maintain terrorist infrastructure there.
The reality on the ground is that terrorist networks continue to operate in Judea and Samaria, including underground infrastructure and weapons capabilities.
Ashley Smith, the wife of Constable Jeff Smith, has shared a deeply moving message after her husband was critically injured while protecting worshippers outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, on Yom Kippur.
She thanked the paramedics, police officers, neurosurgeons, trauma teams, doctors, nurses, and community members who have stood beside Jeff and their family, describing the support as “real-life miracles” carried out through human hands.
She also had a message for the Jewish community “We love you, we see you, we pray for you.”
Jeff remains in critical but stable condition and has a long road ahead. Ashley says he is not walking it alone.
We continue to pray for Constable Jeff Smith, his family, and the Jewish community he put his life on the line to protect.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter returned to Israel to be at the bedside of his son Neria, an IDF reservist critically wounded in a car-ramming terror attack.
At Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Leiter thanked the doctors and medical teams who stabilized his son and are continuing to fight for his life.
Leiter has already endured the loss of another son, Maj. (res.) Moshe Yedidya Leiter, who was killed fighting in Gaza in November 2023. Neria continued serving in the reserves after his brother’s death and has completed hundreds of days of reserve duty since October 7.
Leiter has asked people to continue praying for Neria, expressing that Neria needs a miracle. He has also described the young Israelis who have protected their nation since October 7 as “the greatest generation of Jews in history.”
We send our heartfelt prayers to the Leiter family in this is a moment of unimaginable pain. May our hope be felt my everyone affected by this tragic event.
French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the UN General Assembly on the West Bank, including remarks downplaying Hamas’ threat there.
Macron said in French that “le Hamas n’a jamais sévi en Cisjordanie” which can be translated as Hamas “never operated” in the West Bank. The French government later said in a statement that his meaning was mistranslated, alleging that sévir in this context meant that Hamas had never “governed” the West Bank.
Hamas has operated in the West Bank for a long time, as well as multiple other terror organizations. The U.S. State Department has documented Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the PFLP operating there, while Shin Bet said in June 2026 that it had foiled dozens of Hamas-planned attacks in the West Bank directed by Turkey-based Hamas operatives.
Whatever Macron intended by sévir, describing Hamas as having no meaningful role in the West Bank is minimizing the terrorist threat in the territory that Israeli and international security agencies have repeatedly documented.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter is traveling to Israel after his son, Neria Leiter, was critically injured in a suspected vehicle-ramming attack at the Maccabim checkpoint.
Neria was transported to a Jerusalem hospital in extremely serious condition following the attack. Israeli security forces killed the attacker at the scene, and police opened an investigation.
Our thoughts are with the Leiter family and with everyone affected by this attack.
Colombia has withdrawn its declaration of intervention in South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
Colombia originally filed its declaration in April 2024 under Article 63 of the ICJ Statute. The Colombian government notified the Court of its withdrawal on September 18, and the ICJ formally confirmed it on September 22.
Colombia’s Foreign Ministry clarified that the decision does not change the country’s status as a party to the Genocide Convention or its obligations under it.
The move comes as Colombia’s new government works to restore and strengthen relations with Israel.
According to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, the IDF and Shin Bet eliminated Mohammed Abu Alwan, whom Israel identifies as the head of Hamas’ finance department, in Khan Younis.
Hamas’ financial networks have helped fund the organization’s terror infrastructure, including its extensive tunnel network and weapons capabilities, as well as the preparation and execution of the October 7 massacre.
Targeting Hamas’ financial infrastructure is a central part of Israel’s effort to prevent the organization from rebuilding its military capabilities and terrorist infrastructure.
On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, former Columbia protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil used a Yizkor gathering organized by anti-Zionist Jewish groups to call for God to “remember that Israel is committing genocide.”
The event’s message went even further: a sign on the podium read, “for the sin of genocide we atone” — effectively turning a Jewish day of repentance and remembrance into a public indictment of Israel in the name of Jewish atonement.
Khalil remains in deportation proceedings stemming from his role in Columbia’s anti-Israel protest movement, even as he continues to campaign publicly against Israel.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Weaponizing that sacred tradition to accuse the Jewish state of genocide is not moral courage.
It is a disturbing inversion: using Jewish ritual to place collective guilt on Jews for Israel’s war against Hamas
