Press Releases

Tomorrow, Monday 27 April 2009 at 9 a.m., an investigator nominated by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee, which is part of the Israeli Interior Ministry, will hear objections...

On 8 April 2009, Adalah in cooperation with Al-Mezan in Gaza, sent a letter to the Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak and the Attorney General, Menachem Mazuz, demanding that the AG immediately...

Since January 2009, the National Insurance Institute (NII) in Israel has discontinued the transfer of disability payments to more than 5,000 eligible Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip....

In April 2009 Adalah challenged two new Israel Prison Service (IPS) policies that created worsened conditions of confinement for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons: a total ban on bringing...

On 16 April 2009, Adalah submitted a motion objecting to the state's presentation of secret evidence (referred to as “intelligence material”) for review by the Nazereth District Court,...

The Israel Railway Company argued in its response to Adalah, dated 30 March 2009, that its decision to impose the military service criterion as a condition for retaining workers was based on...

The Israel Railway Company argued in its response to Adalah, dated 30 March 2009, that its decision to impose the military service criterion as a condition for retaining workers was based on...

Ten-year-old Jibril Ziyadna from Rahat in the Naqab (Negev) suffers from osteoporosis, which leads to constant fractures and breakages to his bones from the slightest movements. Several years ago...

On 5 April 2009, Adalah sent a pre-petition to the legal advisor to the Israel Prison Service (IPS), demanding the immediate cancellation of an IPS decision to place a total ban on bringing books...

On 8 April 2009, Adalah sent a letter to the Director of the National Insurance Institute (NII), Esther Domenesy, asking her to expand the applicability of the National Insurance Law – 1995,...

UN Human Rights Council HR Situation in Palestine - Gaza, March 2009: Combined Reports of UN Special Rapporteurs

On 30 April 2009, Adalah sent a letter to the Israeli Attorney General demanding that directives be issued to the Likud and Shas political parties to cancel a provision of their bilateral coalition...

On 23 March 2009, Adalah sent a letter to the Ministry of Transport and the Israel Railway Company demanding that they refrain from imposing the criterion of military service as a condition for the...

On 29 March 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann following recommendations made by the minister and the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to impose additional...

On 25 March 2009, Adalah sent a letter to the Minister of Education (MOE), Yuli Tamir, demanding that she take immediate measures to bring an end to the extremely high rate of illiteracy among Arab...

The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has recently begun to implement a new policy of obliging Arab Bedouin farmers in the Naqab (Negev) in the south of Israel to provide statements from the tax...

Today, 24 March 2009, at a hearing held before an expanded panel of nine justices of the Israeli Supreme Court, three human rights organizations - The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel,...

On 19 March 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Israeli Attorney General demanding that he take immediate action to avert any attempt to impose further restriction on the rights of...

On 16 March 2009, after five years of litigation, the Supreme Court of Israel rejected a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of Muslim religious leaders to compel the Minister of Religious Affairs...

On Sunday, 15 March 2009, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on petitions filed by human rights organizations demanding that the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law – 2003 and its...