Press Releases

In a letter to the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the Ofer prison administration dated 1 September 2009, Adalah demanded that they immediately stop the humiliating physical inspection practiced by...

The Israeli authorities open investigation into Abed-Rabbo On 2 September 2009, the Israeli military police interviewed Mr. Khalid Abed-Rabbo and his mother, Mrs. Su'ad Abed-Rabbo, at the Erez...

On 27 August 2009, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza and Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel against the freeze of “national insurance” disability...

On 23 August 2009, Adalah in cooperation with the Prisoners’ Rights and Rehabilitation Clinic at the University of Haifa sent a letter to the Minister of Justice , the Attorney General and...

On 25 August 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak and Commander of the Israeli Army Southern Command, Yoav Galant, demanding that Palestinian Arab citizens...

On 10 August 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Director of the “Green Patrol” and the legal advisor to the Israel Land Administration (ILA) demanding that they immediately...

The Ministry of Education (MOE) has committed to opening a high school for Arab students in the city of Led (Lod) in Israel in the coming school year. The written commitment came in response to a...

On 5 August 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Director of the Israel Land Administration (ILA) and Jewish National Fund (JNF) officials in the south of Israel demanding that they...

The new land reform law is wide ranging in scope: it institutes broad land privatization; permits land exchanges between the State and the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet Le-Israel)...

On 26 July 2009, Adalah submitted a petition to the Nazareth District Court on behalf of four residents of the village of Kfar Kama demanding that the court order the Israel Land Administration...

On 19 July 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Director of Mekorot (the National Water Company), the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of National Infrastructure and the Attorney General...

On 1 July 2009, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a final decision on a petition submitted by Adalah in 2006 to allocate positions for educational counselors in five schools in the Arab Bedouin...

Adalah to AG: Draft land reform law which permits the use of admissions committees to exclude Arab citizens of Israel from acquiring property rights in 697 rural and agricultural communities...

On 15 July 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Attorney General, Menachem Mazuz, demanding the cancellation of the Transport Minister's new decision to Hebraicize all the road signs in...

Adalah and ACRI to Attorney General Mazuz: Cancel the land swap agreement between the State of Israel and the Jewish National Fund as it violates the rules of public law and the right to equality

On 1 July 2009, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding an order to the Ministry of Education and the electricity company to connect the Al-Mustakbal and Al-Aa'sam B...

This week, seven human rights organizations based in Israel presented a report to the UN Fact-Finding team investigating allegations of war crimes during “Operation Cast Lead” in Gaza,...

In its meeting held on 28 June 2009, the Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs approved a draft bill which aims to impose an obligation on both the Ministry of Education (MOE) and local...

Numerous Israeli media outlets have recently published news stories on a report prepared by expert lawyers from the Israeli Bar Association that contains a chilling description of the inhuman...

On 22 June 2009, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) reversed its decision to prevent prisoners from receiving books not found in the prisons and announced to the Nazareth District Court that it has...