Press Releases

Adalah vehemently opposes the approval of the proposed Prawer-Begin Bill by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation on 6 May 2013. The bill threatens to displace tens of thousands of Palestinian...

Israeli media outlets reported that the Minister of Trade and Economy, Naftali Bennett, announced during a conference of the Israeli Union of Advanced Industries that the number of ultra-Orthodox...

New Haven, Conn., U.S.A. - Sawsan Zaher of Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, has been named a 2013 Yale World Fellow, announced Yale University President Richard C....

Ahead of a hearing in the Ministerial Committee on Legislation on the draft Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev Law (known as the “Prawer-Begin Plan”), members of the Coalition of...

Most health care facilities in Israel do not comply with the Ministry of Health's February 2013 directive mandating linguistic accessibility. As a result, Arab women, immigrants from Ethiopia and...

Israel is currently holding 4,804 Palestinian political prisoners – classified by Israel as “security” prisoners – from the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, as well as Arab...

Adalah’s General Director Attorney Hassan Jabareen is featured in photographer Mariana Cook's latest book, "Justice: Faces of the Human Rights Revolution." The book, which was launched on 4 April...

On 13 April 2013, the Israeli government once again called on the Knesset to extend the discriminatory "Ban on Family Unification - Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order)" for an...

The Airport Authority recently published an advertisement announcing vacant positions for baggage handlers at Ben Gurion Airport. The announcement requires military service as one of the primary...

Adalah, The Arab Center for Alternative Planning (ACAP), and the Civic Coalition for Defending Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem filed an objection with the Jerusalem District Planning and Building...

On 3 April 2013, Adalah filed a motion for injunction to the Israeli Supreme Court to prevent the enforcement of an amendment to National Insurance Law enacted in 2010 which will cut up to 60% of...

In light of the recent sharp rise in racist attacks against Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, Adalah sent urgent letters this month demanding the opening of criminal investigations into two...

On 21 March 2013, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition submitted by right-wing organization Regavim to close down three elementary schools in the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Wadi...

Today, a coalition of Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations calls on the UN Human Rights Council to protect Palestinians from forced displacement on both sides of the Green Line. As...

While women were, and still are, pivotal during the uprisings that ousted dictators in various countries of the southern Mediterranean region, a pattern of marginalizing them is emerging from...

Following media reports that Israeli security personnel would shortly begin forcing Palestinian workers to use new, segregated bus lines, Adalah wrote to Israeli ministers demanding that they halt...

Currently, Palestinian minors held in Ofer Prison do not receive any organized education, and minors in Megiddo and Sharon Prisons receive inadequate and inappropriate teaching. Adalah and Defense...

On 1 March 2013, Adalah and Bimkom, on behalf of residents of the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Atir, submitted an appeal against the approval of Plan 26/03/11 for the "Yatir Forest" before...

On 26 February 2013, the Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court acquitted three Palestinian citizens of Israel on charges stemming from their participation in a demonstration against the Israeli offensive...

On 20 February 2013, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition submitted by Adalah to connect the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Umm el-Hieran (pop: 500) in the Naqab (Negev) to the...