Mickey Gitzin

Mickey Gitzin (; born 1981) is an Israeli peace activist and current acting CEO of the New Israel Fund, and former director of its Israeli branch.

Early life Gitzin was born to secular Russian-speaking Jewish parents who immigrated to Israel from the Soviet Union in the late 1970s. His parents and grandmother raised him and his sister with Soviet Russian influences and right-wing politics.

In 2012, Gitzin protested draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Israelis.

In 2015 and 2016, Gitzin was a member of the Tel Aviv Municipal Council.

In late 2017, Gitzin became executive director of the New Israel Fund.

In January 2023, Gitzin called the proposed Israeli judicial reforms "an attack on all of democracy".

In December 2025, Gitzin was named acting CEO of the New Israel Fund.

Gitzin has written for Haaretz and Ynet.

Personal life While working in the United States, Gitzin began dating a Catholic American woman. She returned with him to Israel, and they lived together for three years before separating, after which Gitzin came out as gay. Gitzin has been with his current partner since the early 2010s, with the two living in Tel Aviv.

As of 2016, Gitzin was a member of the Meretz Party.