Press Releases

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Adalah � The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel submitted their legal opinion today, 9 May 2007, to the Supreme Court of Israel...

On 11 April 2007, Adalah demanded that the Supreme Court reject the Attorney General's request to extend a deadline requiring the state to cancel Governmental Decision 2288 regarding the...

On 29 March 2007, the Israel Land Administration (ILA) published new regulations governing the short-term leasing of agricultural land in the Naqab (Negev) in the south of Israel. These...

On 10 April 2007, the Supreme Court of Israel decided to accept a motion filed by Haifa University to postpone the implementation of a decision delivered on 17 August 2006 by the Haifa District...

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network in partnership with its member organisations, Adalah, the Arab Association for Human Rights, B'Tselem and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel...

Today, 15 April 2007, the Supreme Court of Israel delivered a precedent-setting decision which prohibits the Israel Land Administration (ILA) from aerially spraying crops cultivated by Arab Bedouin...

Today, 15 April 2007, Adalah together with the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (Gaza) and Al-Haq (West Bank) filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding the opening of criminal...

Adalah to Attorney General: Israeli Security Services Interfere in Publication of Political and Legal Documents by Arab Organizations Illegally

Adalah: �The Court's decision is erroneous and dangerous as it legitimizes the illegal and unjustified seizure of land. This land was confiscated in 1953 for alleged �essential settlement and...

On 8 March 2007, on behalf of the Association for the Development of Arab Education in Haifa and the Parents' Committee at the �al-Karma B� elementary school in Haifa, Adalah sent a letter to...

On 12 March 2007, Adalah wrote to the President of Tel Aviv University and the Dean of the School of Medicine, demanding that new conditions which limit the entry of students into the school to...

Adalah: �The decision of the Haifa District Planning and Building Committee prevented gross violations of Arab landowners' rights to property and safeguarded their basic source of livelihood. It...

Adalah: The UN Committee, which is composed of legal experts, reached these concluding observations based on the principles of anti-discrimination. Therefore the concluding observations constitute...

Yesterday, 28 February 2007, Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel launched a proposed new constitution for Israel offering a comprehensive bill of rights for a democratic,...

On 28 February 2007, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an order nisi demanding that the Municipality of Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) and the Attorney General give their reasons why the Big Mosque in...

Adalah to Attorney General Mazuz: Dismiss State Prosecutor Shendar for his Consistent Failures as Head of Mahash

On 13 February 2007, Adalah sent an urgent letter to Interior Minister Roni Bar-On and Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, demanding the cancellation of warning notices issued against approximately...

The claims of the selections committee clearly confirms that the town is intended for Jewish people only Adalah: We will petition the Supreme Court against the operation of these selection...

On 30 January 2007, Adalah filed a motion to the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) Magistrate Court to cancel ex parte demolition orders issued by the Court at the request of the state against houses in...

Adalah: �The Supreme Court's decision contains a grave error of law in that it considered that the disputed financial support to former soldiers was established by a specific law, while in fact...