Press Releases

(Haifa, Israel) Yesterday, 7 March 2012, in advance of international women’s day, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General of Israel requesting that he issue directives to the Israeli...

(Haifa, Israel) Today, 28 February 2012, Supreme Court Chief Justice Dorit Beinish, who is retiring this week, chose to read the court's ruling overturning the Income Support Law (1982) –...

In January 2012, Adalah worked on a series of legal submissions regarding the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Atir-Umm al-Hieran in the Naqab. The village is slated to be demolished and the...

(Haifa, Israel) On 17 February 2012, the Nazareth District Court once again refused to allow political prisoner Mr. Walid Dakka, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, to meet his wife for conjugal...

(Haifa, Israel) On 15 February 2012, Adalah sent a letter to the Prime Minister, the Attorney General, and the Minister of Justice demanding that they halt a proposed new law that will grant a 35%...

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - Israel's Supreme Court today will hear a petition filed by Shawan Jabarin, General Director of the human rights organization Al-Haq, against atravel ban that, based...

This press conference concludes a 10 day visit to the region, carried out within the framework of my mandate as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian...

Updated | 3:05 p.m. A Palestinian man who has refused to eat since he was detained without charge two months ago by Israel “could die at any minute,” one of his lawyers told The Guardian...

On 14 February 2012, Adalah revealed that the Israeli military order prohibiting ships and individuals from traveling to the Gaza Strip was issued after the Gaza Freedom Flotilla left Turkish...

Thank you distinguished members of the Committee. My name is Orna Kohn, and I am a lawyer with Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. Today I will highlight two key...

(Haifa and Beer el-Sabe) On 12 February 2012, the UN Special Rapporteur (SR) on Adequate Housing, Ms. Raquel Rolnik, completed her two week official visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian...

Lifta, the best-kept Palestinian Nakba village was saved on Monday, after a surprising verdict by the Jerusalem District Court canceled a 2004 construction plan to build a luxury housing complex on...

(Haifa, Israel) Adalah condemns the brutal massacre committed by the Syrian regime on 3 and 4 February 2012 against its own citizens in Homs, where it used tanks, artillery and mortar fire in...

At a hearing in the Nazareth District Court held on 30 January 2012, the legal defense team representing Arab MK Sa'id Naffaa (National Democratic Assembly-Balad) rejected a request made by the...

(Jerusalem) – Recent decisions by Israel’s high court aim to legitimize clear violations of Israel’s international legal obligations, Human Rights Watch said today. In one decision, the court...

Tomorrow, Monday 30 January 2012, at 9 o'clock am, the District Court in Nazareth will hold its first hearing in the case of Arab Member of Knesset (MK) Sa'id Naffaa. MK Naffaa has been criminally...

(Haifa, Israel) On 25 January 2012, the Attorney General (AG) submitted the state's legal response to the Supreme Court of Israel on petitions filed by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights...

On 16-17 December 2011, Adalah held its annual General Assembly (GA) meeting in Jerusalem. The meeting was well-attended by GA members, including several new members, the Board of Directors and...

On 25 January 2012, Adalah submitted an appeal to the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) District Court on behalf of 19 Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel living in the unrecognized village of Umm al-Hieran in...

(Haifa, Israel) On 18 January 2012, Adalah sent an urgent letter to Israeli President Shimon Peres urging that he not grant amnesty to police officer Shahar Mizrahi. Officer Mizrahi was convicted...