Press Releases

(Haifa, Israel) On 26 December 2011, the Israeli Attorney General (AG) Yehuda Weinstein submitted an indictment before the Nazareth District Court against MK Sa'id Naffaa .

As is known, following the 31.5.10 overtaking of the flotilla to Gaza, the Attorney General ordered the launching of a police investigation that centered on violent criminal offenses carried out...

(Tel Aviv, Israel) On 13 December 2011, Adalah, together with Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR-I) and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), held a briefing for embassy...

(Jerusalem and Beer el-Sabe) On 12 December 2011, Adalah, NGO partners, and human rights activists participated in a briefing for the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Mr. Frank La...

At NIF awards event, retired Supreme Court Justice Ayala Procaccia praises the winners as lawyers of the highest caliber and calls to support human rights organizations On 13 December 2011, the New...

I would like to thank the Government of Israel and the Palestinian National Authority for inviting me to visit Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and for their cooperation before and...

The news agency [Al-Naqab Net] has discovered that demolition warnings that were posted on the outskirts of the village of Wadi al-Nam, or "south of the village of Shegheb al-Salam [Segev Shalom]",...

Despite awarding compensation to the family of a Chinese worker who was killed while working in the former Jewish settlement of Ganei Tal, located in the southern Gaza Strip prior to its...

(Kiryat Gat, Israel) On 11 December 2011, in the presence of dozens of villagers, the Magistrates' Court in Kiryat Gat rejected Adalah's motion to cancel the 33 home demolition orders in the...

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) issued its Concluding Observations on Israel in December 2011. This human rights body monitors State Party compliance with the...

(Tel Aviv, Israel) On 6 December 2011, Adalah, together with the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (Dukium) and the Regional Council of the Unrecognized Villages (RCUV), held a briefing...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) Today, 6 December 2011, for the first time in Israel's legal history, the Kiryat Gat Magistrate's Court ordered the immediate cancellation of 51 demolition orders on the...

(Beer el-Sabe) On Monday 6 and Sunday 11 December 2011, the Kiryat Gat Magistrates’ Court will issue two precedent-setting rulings on the demolition and evacuation of the unrecognized Arab...

Adalah in the News English media Prawer Report & the Arab Bedouin in the Naqab (Negev)

(Haifa, Israel) Walid Dakka, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, classified as a "security prisoner" by Israel and his wife Sana have been struggling for over nine years for their basic human right to...

A revised version of a bill aiming to prohibit or restrict foreign governmental funding of Israeli civil society groups was tabled on Wednesday by Members of Knesset Ofir Akunis (Likud) and Faina...

As we near the end of 2011, Adalah wishes to direct the attention of the European Union to some of the year’s major developments and challenges with regard to the rights of the Palestinian...

Israel’s detention policy of Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and in particular Palestinian children and adolescents, is part of Israel’s policy of occupation.

Attempts to impose severe restrictions on human rights organizations' ability to receive foreign funding have been revived mere days after Prime Minister Netanyahu decided to freeze two proposed...

(Geneva, Switzerland) Representatives of Adalah participated in the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' review of Israel in Geneva, Switzerland on 16-17 November 2011. At these...