Press Releases

On 14 July 2003, Adalah provided testimony at hearings before the Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee regarding a new government bill titled, "Proposed Nationality and Entry into...

Tomorrow, Thursday 17 July 2003 at 11:30 a.m., the Supreme Court of Israel will hold hearings on petitions filed by Adalah on behalf of 14 families of Palestinian citizens of Israel and their...

Today at 11:30 a.m., the Supreme Court of Israel will hear a petition challenging the legality of the Israel army's use of Palestinian civilians as human shields and/or as hostages during the...

On 6 July 2003, Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel submitted a petition to the Nazareth District Court on behalf of a prisoner requesting that the Court instruct the Israel...

On 10 June 2003, Adalah, in cooperation with the Committee for the Defence of Land Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in the Naqab, submitted an objection on behalf of eleven Arab Bedouin...

On 10 June 2003, the Haifa District Court, sitting as a special water tribunal, instructed Mekorot, the Israeli National Water Company, to renew the water supply for two weeks to the Abu Krenat...

On 29 May 2003, the Nazareth District Court ruled that political prisoners should be allowed to continue taking courses in political science, humanities and social sciences offered by the Open...

In a letter received by Adalah on 30 May 2003, the Minister of Interior, Avraham Poraz, instructed the Director of the Ministry of Interior's Population Administration to permit nine members of the...

Today, Adalah submitted a petition to the Nazareth District Court on behalf of nine members of the European Voluntary Service (EVS) Program and Baladna - Association for Arab Youth, against the...

On 23 May 2003, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ("the Committee") issued its Concluding Observations regarding Israel's implementation of the International...

Yesterday, 26 May 2003, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a decision on a petition filed by Adalah earlier this month against the Interior Minister demanding fair representation for Arab citizens...

On 13 May 2003, Adalah sent a letter to Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein and State Attorney Edna Arbel requesting that they instruct the police to release Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the head of the...

Today Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of eight hearing impaired Arab children, citizens of Israel. The children range in age from three to five, and are from...

On 4 May 2003, Adalah sent a letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein challenging the legality of a government decision approved on 9 April 2003. This decision,...

Yesterday, 5 May 2003, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of the National Committee of Arab Mayors and in its own name against the Minister of Interior, Avraham...

27 April 2003, Adalah submitted new three testimonies to the Supreme Court of Israel of Palestinian civilians being used as human shields and as hostages by the Israeli army in the 1967 Occupied...

Today, 24 April 2003, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding that the state provide free preschool education for Arab Bedouin children, citizens of Israel, aged three...

On 16 April 2003, Adalah sent a letter to the head of the Israel Prisons Authority (IPA), Ms. Orit Adato, seeking the cancellation of the IPA's recent decision to stop providing personal hygiene...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by Adalah in December 2001 demanding equal representation for Arabs citizens of Israel - women and men - on the boards of directors of...

Yesterday, 2 April 2003, Adalah sent a second letter to the Attorney General requesting a criminal investigation into the southern branch of the Israel Lands Administration (ILA). Yesterday...