Press Releases

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...

Today, a three-judge panel of the Nazareth Magistrate Court unanimously decided to dismiss the indictment currently pending against Member of Knesset (MK) Azmi Bishara. The indictment charged MK...

On Tuesday 1 April 2003 at 12 p.m., the Nazareth Magistrate Court will deliver its decision on the preliminary arguments in MK Azmi Bishara's Syria visits case. In this ruling, the Court will...

On 24 March 2003, Adalah sent a letter to the Dean of Students at Tel Aviv University, asking the university to cancel a regulation whereby high school graduates, who will not be studying as part...

Today, the Appeals Committee of Bar Ilan University accepted an appeal filed by Adalah on 2 March 2003 against the decision of Safed College to temporarily suspend Ms. Yassera Bakri, an Arab...

On 13 March 2003, Adalah submitted a motion to the Haifa Magistrate Court seeking to stay a demolition order against an addition to a house belonging to a single mother, a Palestinian citizen of...

On 13 March 2003, Adalah filed an appeal to the Haifa Regional Labor Court against the National Insurance Institute (NII), seeking to compel the NII to provide child allowance benefits and support...

Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel announces the publication of a new report titled, "October 2000 - Law and Politics before the Or Commission." The publication, written in...

On 5 March 2003, at a hearing held before a panel of 13 justices of the Supreme Court of Israel, Adalah challenged the Attorney General's claim that even though cuts in child allowances sanctioned...