Press Releases

On 28 October 2002, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General's office, on behalf of Archimandrite Theodosios (Atallah) Hanna, Spokesman of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem and the Holy...

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG), a voluntary association of thousands of progressive American lawyers and law students, invited and hosted Adalah for a two-week speaking tour in New York and...

The evidence submitted by the petitioners shows that conditions in Ansar III do not meet minimum standards for a detention facility. Ansar III is situated in the Naqab desert, which is exceedingly...

Today, the Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction freezing the implementation of a new law for 30 days, which would cut child allowances by 20% to families who do not serve in the military....

Adalah is pleased to announce the publication of a new volume of our legal journal, Adalah's Review, Volume 3 - Law and Violence. The essays in this volume attempt to offer an understanding of the...

On 10 September 2002, Adalah learned from media reports that the Israeli prison authorities ordered the Open University (a correspondence school) to refuse the enrollment of all Palestinian...

On 5 September 2002, Adalah sent a letter to Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein demanding that the recently reconvened Demography Council be denied government funding or support, and that a total...

Yesterday, Minister of Interior Eli Yishai signed a special decree officially revoking the citizenship of Mr. Nihad Abu Kishik, an Arab citizen of Israel. This unprecedented decision makes Mr. Abu...

The official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 protest demonstrations ("Commission") concluded its public hearings on 21 August 2002 with the testimony of former Prime Minister Ehud...

On 26 August 2002, Adalah filed a petition to the Supreme Court in its own name and on behalf of the Association for Support and Defense of Bedouin Rights in Israel, the Islamic Committee in the...

On 26 August 2002, Adalah submitted 12 individual petitions to the Supreme Court on the Israeli government's interim policy canceling all pending family unifications if the non-citizen spouse is...

Today, Supreme Court Justice Strassberg-Cohen granted a temporary injunction preventing the Israeli army from using Palestinian civilians as human shields and/or hostages through the army's...

On 6 August 2002, the official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 events (hereafter "the Commission") heard testimony from three academic expert witnesses: Danny Rabinowitz, Professor of...

During yesterday's hearing at the Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 events, Adalah confronted former Minister of Internal Security Shlomo Ben Ami with a document outlining ways in which...

On 7 August 2002, the Director of the Ministry of Interior's Population Bureau sent a letter to Adalah in which he announced the cancellation of an order he had issued preventing Mohammed Kannaneh,...

Yesterday, Adalah sent a letter to Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein seeking the cancellation of a decision by the Registrar of Associations ("Registrar") to appoint an investigator into Adalah's...

Yesterday, Adalah announced that it has learned through media reports of a pending investigation into the organization by the Ministry of the Interior's Registrar of Associations. "These reports...

On 17 July 2002, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel; Al Meezan Association for Human Rights; and in...

On 7 August 2002, Adalah filed a pre-petition to Minister of the Interior Eliyahu Yishai, raising grave concerns about his announcement that he intends to revoke the citizenship of two Palestinian...

On 5 August 2002, the Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by Adalah on 21 July 2002, against the Official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 protest demonstrations (hereafter "the...