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General Assembly members also discuss optimal approaches for challenging the “Jewish Nation State” bill.

Adalah urges Israel implement CEDAW-recommended measures to increase Bedouin women's employment, raises concerns with forced urbanization, evictions, displacement.

Petition filed by Adalah, Hamoked, Addameer, and Defense for Children International-Palestine to be held 3 July before expanded panel of nine justices.

Agreement between Education Ministry and local councils allows petitioners' children to return to preschool immediately, provides solution for kids from other unrecognized Bedouin villages.

Settlement Regularization Law allows Israel to 'legalize' settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land via de facto expropriation.

Regulations that require Palestinians and foreign workers suing Israeli employers for labor wrongs to pay financial guarantees bar access to courts and dramatically cut number of labor lawsuits.

Adalah: 'BDS blacklist' is reminiscent of actions taken by South Africa's apartheid regime which also prepared blacklists in order to punish people and prevent entry.

Israel also illegally obligating contractors to verify permits issued to construction projects before commencing work.

Court fee to rise from 1,794 to 5,400 shekels; Israeli plan intended to reduce number of petitions filed by Palestinian residents of the Occupied Territories to Supreme Court.

Israel's Police Investigations Division won't hold any officers responsible for killing of Ya'akub Abu-Al-Qi'an, continues to whitewash most serious police violence.

Amendment to 'Basic Law: The Knesset' will likely be used almost exclusively to prevent Arab candidates from participating in Knesset elections.

University guards question, disperse Arab students after members of far-right Jewish group disrupt Arab students' authorized activity.

Education Ministry had promised school transport for kids aged 3 and 4 living in unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Naqab desert.

Adalah, Bimkom: Forced evacuation to temporary housing appropriate in emergency natural disaster situations but not as 10-year impermanent housing solution.

Expansion would add 640 acres to the Israeli Jewish town, a move that would come at the expense of surrounding Arab communities and limit their future growth.

Israeli soldiers sent Mahmoud Odeh’s body to Tel Aviv for autopsy without family’s knowledge or permission; Adalah pre-petition to attorney general demands Israel return body for burial.

Adalah, JLAC, Al Mezan: But AG’s position still allows for expropriation of private Palestinian land, violates international law banning construction of civilian settlements on occupied territories.

CEDAW recommends special measures to increase Bedouin women's employment, raises concerns with Israel’s forced urbanization, evictions, displacement of Bedouin.

Public Security Minister's proposed law conditioning return of bodies on families' agreement to police-imposed funeral restrictions politicizes humanitarian issue.

Israeli army expelled residents, demolished Galilee village in 1948; Adalah demands all displaced residents from Ma'alul be allowed to visit family graves, now surrounded by Israeli military base.