Press Releases

As Adalah team gathers testimonies and evidence in preparation for formal complaint to Police Investigations Department, grim picture emerges of police’s suspected illegal orders, excessive use...

Israel's shielding of those responsible for crimes, and its refusal to conduct genuine, effective, and independent investigations into cases Adalah brought before Israeli legal system, have...

Magen David Adom’s website provides the public with essential public health information relating to the COVID-19 virus – but none of it is in Arabic.

Israeli military’s ‘Housing Authority’ discriminates against Arab families, establishing dozens of housing developments nationwide at discount prices available only to selected career...

Adalah said Israeli council’s move to block enrollment of three-year-old girl from Arab al-Aramshe, a village on Israel-Lebanon border, violated her legal right to education and raised suspicion...

Bloody images from Umm al-Fahm protest prove yet again that Israeli police continue to perceive – and to relate to – Palestinian Arab citizens as an enemy.

Health Ministry issuing certificates of vaccination and COVID-19 recovery in Hebrew and English only, in violation of Supreme Court ruling and ministry guidelines.

Adalah demands repeal of amendment allowing health minister to report identities of people who have not yet been vaccinated or received second shot to local and national authorities.

Two motions submitted by ‘Jewish Power’ party and religious Zionist list rejected by vote of 15-3; Adalah represented Joint List and Ra’am lists throughout disqualification process.

Interior Ministry revises policy that excluded at-risk populations – notably Bedouin citizens from unrecognized Naqab (Negev) villages – from receiving COVID-19 food security grants.

Israeli police continue to operate under institutional assumption that Arab citizens of Israel are enemies; Adalah files motion to cancel gag order imposed on publication of details related to...

Adalah: Israeli Education Minister Yoav Gallant has no legal authority to ban rights groups from schools; his order constitutes illegal violation of right to free expression.

150,000 Palestinian residents of Kufr Aqab and Shu'afat refugee camp live under Israeli rule, but Israel has not established even a single vaccination center in these East Jerusalem neighborhoods.

Court accepts state's claim that delays in enacting ordinary legislation were result of exceptional circumstances of global epidemic and political instability; court refuses to cancel fines issued...

During protest in Nazareth against visit of Israeli PM Netanyahu, Israeli police forces arrested 19 Palestinian citizens of Israel; officers hindered evacuation of two wounded who required urgent...

According to professional sources, prisoners are an at-risk population and action must be taken to vaccinate them in parallel with the at-risk populations at large.

Adalah petitioned against ban in 2018; legitimate need to allow religious Jews to uphold beliefs cannot override fundamental freedoms enjoyed by Arab public, Israeli Jewish secular public, and...

Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana issues directive preventing Palestinians detained by Israel from receiving vaccinations, in violation of mandatory Health Ministry guidelines.

Article 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention specifies that an occupier must ensure 'the adoption and application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of...

Israeli Supreme Court hearing on petitions against law held 22 December; Adalah: The law's distinct apartheid characteristics guarantee Israel’s ethnic-religious character as exclusively Jewish,...