House Judiciary and Ways and Means committees opened an investigation into the New Israel Fund on July 9, 2026, alleging the progressive nonprofit violated its tax-exempt status by funding Israeli opposition groups in the 2019 elections—including $356,000 to a group that transported Bedouin voters and $95,000 to provide legal representation to Arab parties opposing Netanyahu. The committees cite evidence from a 2019 lawsuit and claim NIF helped gather petition signatures to disqualify a candidate, though NIF settled that lawsuit in 2021 without admitting wrongdoing. What's missing: the investigation is still in its early stages and NIF has previously denied engaging in election activity—the actual findings remain to be seen, and the legal threshold for what constitutes prohibited 'electioneering' by a U.S. charity funding foreign nonprofits is contested terrain.