Press Releases

The conduct of all the authorities in Israel, especially the executive and the judiciary, during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrate fully the ease of violating the rights of prisoners and the lack of...

Court authorizes Cyber Unit to continue operating in the shadows, conducting quasi-judicial censorship without allowing social media users to defend their rights or even to know that the state has...

However, following petition of human rights organizations, the Israel Prison Service will grant them a one-time holiday phone call.

Adalah: No democracy in the world would approve the establishment of a police unit directed at a specific ethnic group; there is no legal basis that allows Israeli internal security minister to set...

Israel's economic sidelining of Arab aid groups – which receive just 0.1% of key food aid grant – deepens socio-economic gaps and impoverishment of Palestinian Arab society in Israel.

NGOs: 'Law establishes undemocratic norms'; court rules that ban on participation in protests further than 1,000 meters from one's residence violates freedom of expression, does not pass...

Adalah lodges formal complaint with Justice Ministry's PID, demand investigation into the incidents in which police employed excessive force and wounded dozens of Palestinian citizens.

COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates in West Bank and Gaza are increasing dramatically but vaccine supply to Palestinians so far covers less than 1.5% of population. NGOs: 'Israel has a legal,...

Adalah seeks an International Advocacy Coordinator Full-time (100%) position, Haifa, Israel Apply by 31 March 2021 / Interviews in April / Start date: Immediate

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...