Protest Leader and Activist for Jewish-Arab Partnership

NIF is thrilled to recognize Shir Nosatzki as the winner of this year’s Gallanter Prize for promising social justice leaders. Shir has been a prominent civil society leader and changemaker for over a decade. She was one of the leaders of the 2011 Israeli social justice protests—the largest mass protest in the country at the time. Since January 2023, Shir has been one of the organizers of the weekly protests against the so-called judicial reform, the largest and most sustained mass protest movement ever to take place in Israel. Shir is also the Co-Founder and Director of an NIF grantee called Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?—an Israeli NGO advancing Jewish-Arab political partnership working with the Israeli mainstream. Its creative and provocative social media campaigns have reached millions. Shir was selected by TheMarker newspaper as one of the most influential people on social media in Israel, and designated by Maariv newspaper as a promising young leader. It is an honor to feature Shir as NIF’s Gallanter Prize recipient and we cannot wait to introduce her to the NIF community in the U.S.