Press Releases

On 31 December 2001, 26 Arab local councils and municipalities submitted an objection to the Northern District plan entitled “Tamam II, Revision No. 9”. The plan was submitted at the...

Today, Adalah submitted two complaints to Mahash (the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit) on behalf of Mr. Yoav Bar and attorney Iman Odah, a member of the Haifa Municipal Council. Haifa...

Today, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Aharon Barak decided to transfer the trial against Member of Knesset (MK) Dr. Azmi Bishara from the Jerusalem Magistrate Court to the Nazareth Magistrate...

On 19 December 2001, Attorney Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah, filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and several other government ministers...

On 20 December 2001, Adalah, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the New Israel Fund (NIF) will host a day of panel discussions entitled, “The Role of Civil Society Organizations...

On 10 December 2001, the prosecution of MK Dr. Azmi Bishara and two of his parliamentary assistants, Mr. Ashraf Qurtam and Mr. Musa Diab, began before a panel of three judges at the Nazareth...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled on a petition submitted in January 2000 by Adalah, on behalf of the National Committee of Arab Mayors, regarding the government’s discriminatory...

On 6 December 2001, Adalah Staff Attorney Marwan Dalal sent a letter to the Minister of Education, Limor Livnat, demanding an end to the involvement of the General Security Services (GSS or...

On 19-20 November 2001, Shlomo Ben Ami and Ehud Barak, the Minister of Internal Security and the Prime Minister respectively in October 2000, testified before the Commission of Inquiry (“the...

On Monday, 10 December 2001, at 9 am, the trial against MK Dr. Azmi Bishara and two of his parliamentary assistants, Musa Diab and Ashraf Qurtam, will begin. The trial will take place in the...

Today, MK Dr. Azmi Bishara submitted a motion to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel asking to transfer one of his criminal case files, opened before the Jerusalem Magistrate Court, to...

On 27 November 2001, Jerusalem District Attorney Moshe Lador filed a motion to the Jerusalem Magistrate Court requesting that MK Dr. Azmi Bishara’s trial, currently set to begin on 21...

Today, family members of four Palestinian citizens of Israel killed by Israeli police in October 2000 responded to a recommendation to exhume the bodies of their sons. Adalah’s General...

On Thursday, 15 November 2001, five Haifa University students were convicted by the University’s Disciplinary Committee on charges stemming from their involvement in a demonstration held at...

On 12 November 2001, the Magistrate Court of Akka ruled to quash a demolition order, issued by the head of the Misgav Local Committee for Planning and Building (“Misgav Planning...

Adalah Argues That They Have Direct Responsibility for the Killing of 13 Palestinian Citizen Demonstrators and for the Injury of Hundreds of Others Former Minister of Internal Security Shlomo Ben...

On Tuesday, 13 November 2001, the Supreme Court began hearings on a petition concerning the discriminatory policy applied by the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) in distributing balance grants to the...

Today, Israeli police released two Palestinian citizens from the Arab village of Kufr Manda, Saleh Hassan Bushnaq, 18, and Addel Jamil Abed el Halim, 40, following two weeks of detention. The...

Adalah has begun preparations for the legal representation of Arab Member of Knesset (MK) Dr. Azmi Bishara. Following yesterday’s vote by the full Knesset Assembly to remove his immunity, as...

At a Supreme Court hearing held on 5 November 2001, Adalah rejected two proposals from the Attorney General’s office submitted in response to a petition demanding that seven unrecognized...