The New Israel Fund (NIF) is a United States-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) and philanthropic fund established in 1979. It is widely recognised as the largest foreign donor to progressive, left-of-centre civil society and social change causes in Israel. The organisation operates internationally, raising funds in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia to distribute as grants to Israeli non-profit organisations. Core Mission & Ideology The NIF explicitly anchors its

The Tuscan village of San Ginese is the setting for Moreno Giovannoi's resurrection of the grit, superstition and flawed characters, trapped in their deep-rooted grudges. The book is narrated by Ugo, an elderly migrant in Australia, who recounts the tales of his birthplace to "The Translator" (the author himself). Here we meet Bucchione, a man haunted by the "Angel of Sadness", "Tommaso the Killer", whose reputation precedes him. The "Two Imbecile Sisters" whose tragic, quiet