Press Releases

In a letter sent to Housing Minister Ariel Atias, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, Israel Lands Administration (ILA) Chairman Benzi Lieberman, and Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, Adalah urged...

Israel Prison Service IPS to Adalah, Human Rights NGOs: New Guidelines Require Prisoners Confirm Meetings with Lawyers; New Policy Announced in Response to Demand that IPS Allow Palestinians Hunger...

Following Adalah's petition, the Israeli Supreme Court affirmed on 6 April 2012 that the "Afikomen" program, supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sport could continue, although Arab children...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) On 18 April 1012, Adalah sent a letter to Ms. Amira Haim, Director of the Southern District Ministry of Education (MOE), demanding that the MOE hire more Arab employees in...

(Haifa, Israel) The trial of Knesset Member (MK) Mohammed Barakeh, head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality ("Hadash" or "Jabha"), begins tomorrow, Wednesday 18 April 2012 in the Tel...

On 2 April 2012, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court Israel against the Ministry of Culture and Sports demanding that it offer free cultural programs to all children - Jewish and Arab...

Adalah demands the Abu Basma Regional Council to find an immediate solution to the problem of sewage running through the center of the Arab Bedouin village of Umm Batin in the Naqab (Negev). The...

Today, 1 April 2012, human rights organizations Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) formally submitted their reservations to the government's legislative proposal to...

Beer el-Sabe, Israel) Adalah, on behalf of Arab Bedouin residents of the unrecognized village of Umm el-Hieran in the Naqab (Negev), filed an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court on 27 March 2012,...

At least 25 unrecognized villages threatened by demolition - 65,000 Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel in danger of expulsion from their land On the eve of the 36th anniversary of Land Day (land day...

0 March 2012 is the 36th Land Day. The first Land Day began as a general strike in 1976 to protest Israel's policy of confiscating Arab land, and ended with the killing of six Palestinians from...

(Haifa, Israel) Adalah filed a request for permission to appeal the decision of the Nazareth District Court to the Israeli Supreme Court on 26 March 2012. Earlier this month, the District Court...

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), Adalah, Al Mezan and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) presented a briefing for the United Nations Committee Against Torture...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) On 19 March 2012, six residents of unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the northern Naqab (Negev) filed an official objection (Hebrew) with the Southern District Planning...

(Haifa, Israel) Adalah submitted an urgent letter on 13 March 2012 to the Director of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the Minister of Public Security demanding that they reconsider the transfer...

Adalah submitted an NGO report to the Committee in December 2011 on Israel's lack of compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD),...

(Haifa and Jerusalem) On 11 March 2012, Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) submitted a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court seeking cancellation of the "Boycott Law,"...

(Haifa, Israel) On 7 March 2012, the Nazareth District Court rejected Adalah's petition demanding that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) allow Mr. Rawi Sultany (25 years-old), a Palestinian Arab...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) It is a surprise to everyone who visits the Big Mosque in Beer el-Sabe(Beer Sheva) today: The lobby and walls of the mosque are covered in pictures of government buildings...