Press Releases

On 14 February 2012, Adalah revealed that the Israeli military order prohibiting ships and individuals from traveling to the Gaza Strip was issued after the Gaza Freedom Flotilla left Turkish...

Thank you distinguished members of the Committee. My name is Orna Kohn, and I am a lawyer with Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. Today I will highlight two key...

(Haifa and Beer el-Sabe) On 12 February 2012, the UN Special Rapporteur (SR) on Adequate Housing, Ms. Raquel Rolnik, completed her two week official visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian...

Lifta, the best-kept Palestinian Nakba village was saved on Monday, after a surprising verdict by the Jerusalem District Court canceled a 2004 construction plan to build a luxury housing complex on...

(Haifa, Israel) Adalah condemns the brutal massacre committed by the Syrian regime on 3 and 4 February 2012 against its own citizens in Homs, where it used tanks, artillery and mortar fire in...

At a hearing in the Nazareth District Court held on 30 January 2012, the legal defense team representing Arab MK Sa'id Naffaa (National Democratic Assembly-Balad) rejected a request made by the...

(Jerusalem) – Recent decisions by Israel’s high court aim to legitimize clear violations of Israel’s international legal obligations, Human Rights Watch said today. In one decision, the court...

Tomorrow, Monday 30 January 2012, at 9 o'clock am, the District Court in Nazareth will hold its first hearing in the case of Arab Member of Knesset (MK) Sa'id Naffaa. MK Naffaa has been criminally...

(Haifa, Israel) On 25 January 2012, the Attorney General (AG) submitted the state's legal response to the Supreme Court of Israel on petitions filed by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights...

On 16-17 December 2011, Adalah held its annual General Assembly (GA) meeting in Jerusalem. The meeting was well-attended by GA members, including several new members, the Board of Directors and...

On 25 January 2012, Adalah submitted an appeal to the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) District Court on behalf of 19 Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel living in the unrecognized village of Umm al-Hieran in...

(Haifa, Israel) On 18 January 2012, Adalah sent an urgent letter to Israeli President Shimon Peres urging that he not grant amnesty to police officer Shahar Mizrahi. Officer Mizrahi was convicted...

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur gives an overview of his activities during the reporting cycle in relation to country visits, pending visit requests, presentations, consultations,...

We were shocked to hear today about the recent violent attacks over the past two weeks against our colleague Mahmoud Abu Rahma, the international relations director of Al Mezan and an...

On 11 January 2012, the Israeli Supreme Court in a 6-5 decision, delivered a 232-page judgment upholding the constitutionality of the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law – 2003 (as amended...

The current agreement requires employers to pay pension insurance to female workers aged 20 and above and male workers aged 21 and above, excluding younger workers, a large percentage of whom are...

(Beer el-Sabe) On 26 December 2011, Adalah sent a letter to the Mayor of Beer el-Sabe (Be'er Sheva) requesting a meeting to discuss the municipality's total failure to implement the 22 June 2011...

HCJ: "The questions that this law raises will only become clear with its implementation" Adalah and ACRI: The High Court ignored the chilling effect of this law, and missed the opportunity to tell...

In December 2009, PCATI released the report entitled Accountability Denied,1 which details the manner in which the Attorney General has systematically disregarded hundreds of complaints of torture...

Arab Bedouin residents of the unrecognized village of Atir ask for cancellation of the "Yatir Forest Plan" (264/03/11). This plan seeks to evacuate the villagers, who are citizens of Israel,...