Press Releases

This coming week, the UN Human Rights Committee will conduct its periodic review of Israel’s compliance with this treaty; Adalah submitted a critical report and will address the Committee

According to experts and parents, the appointment of teaching staff in special education schools is made according to partly irrelevant criteria and leads to a violation of students’ right to...

Following the AG’s decision to set up a team to investigate reports of the illegal use of NSO spyware, Adalah demanded a full, public account of the police’s use of these systems

The Housing Ministry assigned the Committee to review the rules on eligibility for public housing, while there is almost no public housing in Arab localities. According to the State Comptroller,...

Citing Adalah’s report, the UN Special Rapporteur also found that in Israel, “judicial interventions have contributed substantially to the creation and maintenance of discrimination”

Data published by the Israeli Knesset Research and Information Center shows a significant under-representation of Arab workers and experts.

Human rights organizations from Israel condemn vicious attacks on Amnesty International

The leading human rights and civil society organizations that were declared as “unlawful associations” submitted a procedural objection demanding the decision’s cancellation; the OPT military...

On 19 January 2022, Adalah - The Legal Center for the Rights of the Arab Minority in Israel sent an urgent letter to the CEO of the Israel Electric Corporation, Ofer Bloch, and the company’s...

Under the new five-year economic plan to reduce gaps in Arab society and “pressures exerted by criminal entities on local authorities”, the government took over the management of tenders....

On 27 January 2022, Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent a letter to the Israel Land Authority (ILA(, the Minister of Housing and Construction and the Attorney General...

Adalah: No democratic country in the world denies residency or citizenship to spouses of its own citizens on the basis of their spouses’ national, racial, or ethnic affiliation

Adalah: The JNF, together with the Israel Lands Authority, plants forests in the Naqab to displace Bedouins, viewed as ‘trespassers’, from their lands. This is racial discrimination, par...

In response to the organizations' demand, the Military Attorney replied that the "core of the designations" is based on classified material that would remain secret.

Adalah: The conduct in this case involving the killing of four boys on the Gaza beach reflects a policy of total impunity for Israeli soldiers and commanders.

The plan is expected to put to use even more private lands of Syrian residents and refugees expelled in 1967. Today, Israeli settlements control 95% of the land of the Golan Heights.

Two months ago, in October 2021, Israel outlawed six of the leading Palestinian human rights and civil society groups, however, the organizations have not received any of the evidentiary materials...

Adalah warns the Ministerial Committee on Legislation that the proposed bill will deepen racial discrimination against Palestinians in Israel and in the OPT and violate international law.

Adalah calls for the police practice of stopping Palestinian citizen worshippers' and demonstrators' buses to be declared unlawful. Police cannot legally justify sweeping restrictions on the...

Adalah seeks immediate action to stop the law's implementation or the issuance of accompanying guidelines that will minimize its damage.