Press Releases

On 10 January 2002, Adalah sent a letter to the Prime Minister’s Advisor for Arab Affairs, Uri Borovsky, protesting a letter that Mr. Borovsky had sent to the editors of the Palestinian...

On 4 February 2002, the Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by Adalah Staff Attorney Marwan Dalal demanding that the official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 protest demonstrations...

On 30 January 2002, Adalah Staff Attorney Marwan Dalal submitted a petition and a motion for a temporary injunction to the Supreme Court demanding that the official Commission of Inquiry into the...

On 24 January 2002, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court against the Director of the Courts, District Court Judge Dan Arbel; the Minister of Justice, Meir Shitreet; and the Attorney...

On 21 January 2002, Adalah Staff Attorney Marwan Dalal submitted a letter to Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein asking that he reconsider his decision not to compel the Custodian for...

On 24 January 2002, Adalah filed a motion to the official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 protest demonstrations (“the Commission”) on behalf of the families of 13 Palestinian...

Adalah welcomes the well-researched and comprehensive 5 December 2001 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, Second Class: Discrimination Against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel’s Schools. This...

On 15 January 2002, the Supreme Court issued an order nisi in response to a petition filed on 23 September 2001, by Adalah on behalf of forty-nine petitioners, including the Arab National...

On 25-26 December 2001, four academics, three Jewish Israelis and one Palestinian citizen of Israel, testified before the Official Commission of Inquiry (“the Commission”). The...

On 8 January 2002, Judge Eitan Magen of the Magistrate Court of Kraiot decided not to convict five Palestinian citizens from the Shefa’amr area, charged with attempting to assault police...

On 2 January 2002, Adalah staff attorney Jamil Dakwar sent a letter to District Court Judge Dan Arbel, Director of the Israeli Courts, asking him to retract his instructions of 24 December 2001,...

On 10 January 2002, Dr. Miloon Kothari, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, will speak at a seminar at Ben Gurion University in Beer el Sebe. The seminar will be held from...

On 31 December 2001, 26 Arab local councils and municipalities submitted an objection to the Northern District plan entitled “Tamam II, Revision No. 9”. The plan was submitted at the...

Today, Adalah submitted two complaints to Mahash (the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit) on behalf of Mr. Yoav Bar and attorney Iman Odah, a member of the Haifa Municipal Council. Haifa...

Today, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Aharon Barak decided to transfer the trial against Member of Knesset (MK) Dr. Azmi Bishara from the Jerusalem Magistrate Court to the Nazareth Magistrate...

On 19 December 2001, Attorney Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah, filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and several other government ministers...

On 20 December 2001, Adalah, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the New Israel Fund (NIF) will host a day of panel discussions entitled, “The Role of Civil Society Organizations...

On 10 December 2001, the prosecution of MK Dr. Azmi Bishara and two of his parliamentary assistants, Mr. Ashraf Qurtam and Mr. Musa Diab, began before a panel of three judges at the Nazareth...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled on a petition submitted in January 2000 by Adalah, on behalf of the National Committee of Arab Mayors, regarding the government’s discriminatory...

On 6 December 2001, Adalah Staff Attorney Marwan Dalal sent a letter to the Minister of Education, Limor Livnat, demanding an end to the involvement of the General Security Services (GSS or...