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On 21 October 2007, Adalah filed a petition to the Haifa District Court on behalf of 24 people from Daliyat al-Carmel demanding the cancellation of the master plan for a “National Park and Har...

On 25 October 2007, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Deputy State Attorney, Shai Nitzan and the Military Advocate General Avihai Mandelblit demanding that they make public the measures and...

Adalah: “With this ruling, the Supreme Court has authorized the use of the most flagrant criterion for discriminating against Arab citizens. The authorities are liable to use this ruling as a...

On 19 October 2007, the Ataa Center, in cooperation with the Galilee Society: The Arab National Society for Health Research and Services and Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in...

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and its members in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories are deeply concerned about the state of human rights in Israel and the...

On 7 October 2007, the Supreme Court held a hearing on a petition filed by Adalah and the Laborer's Voice (Sawt al-‘Amel) in 2004 against the National Insurance Institute (NII) and the...

On 11 October 2007, Adalah sent a letter to the General Director of Israeli television Channel 8, the Communications Minister and the head of the “The Satellite and Cable Broadcasting...

The Supreme Court approved the proposal made by the JNF and the Attorney General's Office to delay further deliberations on the petition for three months in order to allow them to reach a final...

The Memorandum: A Re-Enactment of a Law Set Aside by the High Court of Justice

On 20 September 2007, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Head of the Supreme Court Petitions Department in the Attorney General's Office, Attorney Osnat Mandel, stating that unless it received the...

Today, 23 September 2007, Adalah filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding the cancellation of regional selection committees, which select their residents from among candidates who...

On 5 August 2007, B'Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories on behalf of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) applied to the...

On 2 August 2007, late at night, the Israeli army arrested Mohammad Bsharat, Executive Director of Nafha Society for Defense of Prisoners and Human Rights, which is headquartered in Nablus. He was...

On 2 September 2007, Adalah filed a tort suit to the Haifa Magistrates' Court on behalf of Mr. Tawfiq Abdul Fatah Hussein and his family against the Israeli police and two individual police...

On 20 August 2007, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an order nisi (order to show cause) on a petition filed to the court by Adalah on behalf of Muslim religious leaders in November 2004 mandating...

On 29 August 2007, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of the Association for the Development of Arab Education in Haifa and 33 parents of elementary school...

On 16 August 2007, Adalah sent a letter to the Israeli Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Security, the Head of the General Security Services (GSS) and the Attorney General, following an...

On 29 August 2007, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of the Association for the Development of Arab Education in Haifa and 33 parents of elementary school...

On 15 August 2007, the Beer el-Sabe Magistrates' Court ordered the freezing of demolition orders issued in December 2006 against almost all of the houses belonging to Arab Bedouin families living...

On 5 August 2007 Adalah filed 45 motions to the Beer el-Sabe Magistrates' Court to cancel demolition orders issued by the court in December 2006 to demolish almost all of the houses that belong to...