Volume 63, August 2009 www.adalah.org Education Rights Following Adalah’s intervention, Education Ministry commits to opening an Arab high school in Led (Lod) for the 2009/2010 school year New Data on Education: The drop-out rate among Arab students in grades 9-12 is 7.2%, almost double the rate of Jewish students, at 3.7% (2008) Articles Arab Education in Israel: Between the Discourse of Struggling Identity and Low Achievement Dr. Khaled Abu Asbeh, Board of Directors, Adalah On Institutional Discrimination in the Implementation of Israeli Supreme Court Decisions Sawsan Zaher, Adalah Attorney Workers' Rights Al Mezan, Adalah and others petition Israeli Supreme Court to order National Insurance Institute to transfer disability payments to Palestinian workers in Gaza immediately Land and Planning Rights Israel is Selling Lands in the Occupied Territories: Adalah Position Paper on the State's Privatization of Land in Settlements in the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem Adalah Attorney Suhad Bishara  Adalah Urban and Regional Planner Hana Hamdan Video: On 3.8.09 the Knesset passed the new land reform law, which violates the property rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinian refugees Special summary report on the new Israel land reform law Adalah to Israel Land Administration and Jewish National Fund: Stop plans to forest land belonging to Arab Bedouin in Al-Araqib village in the Naqab (Negev) “Green Patrol” inspector assaults elderly Arab Bedouin woman from the Naqab and destroys her tent Prisoners' Rights Adalah and Haifa University Prisoners’ Rights Clinic: State Prosecutor is systematically violating the rights of Palestinian prisoners to fair trial procedures Religious Rights Adalah to Defense Minister: The right of Arab citizens of Israel to visit their families in Gaza during Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr is a constitutional right Adalah’s Newsletter is a monthly publication issued in Arabic, Hebrew and English. It highlights Adalah’s main activities, provides analysis of human rights issues, and links to new reports. Suggestions, articles and commentaries from our readers are welcome. View previous volumes Arabic Hebrew Subscribe a Friend EU Advocacy EMHRN: "Note on the HR Situation in Israel and the OPT" for the EU-Israel Informal HR Working Group, 3.9.09 Report Adalah's Report of Activities, January to June 2009 Adalah’s Fourth Annual Law Students’ Conference Register Now! 6-8 October 2009, Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salaam  Conference Al Haq and Adalah hold Symposium on New Legal Study: "Occupation, Colonialism and Apartheid?" Photo Gallery International Humanitarian Law Video: International Law Professor Iain Scobbie from SOAS, London discusses the Geneva Conventions on their 60th anniversary Main office: 94 Yaffa Street, PO Box 8921, Haifa 31090 Tel: (972)-4-950-1610 Fax: (972)-4-950-3140 Naqab office: 28 Reger Ave # 35 Beer el Sabe, Israel Tel: (972)-8-665-0740 Fax: (972)-8-665-0853 adalah@adalah.org www.adalah.org

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