Press Releases

On 20 April 2005, Adalah filed an appeal to the Haifa District Court (sitting as a Water Tribunal) on behalf of 767 Palestinian Bedouin citizens of Israel living in the unrecognized villages in the...

On 26 April 2005, Adalah sent a letter to the General Director of the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), Mr. Yaacov Efrati, demanding the cancellation of the ILA's Decision No. 1015 entitled,...

On 19 April 2005, Adalah filed an appeal to the Attorney General (AG), requesting that he cancel the decision of the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit (“Mahash”) not to...

On 4 April 2005 the Attorney General's (AG) Office submitted its response to a petition filed in November 2004 by Adalah and Sawt al-'Amel (the Laborer's Voice), to the Supreme Court of Israel...

On 9 March 2005, Adalah filed a petition and a request for an urgent hearing to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of Mr. Atwa al-Nebari and in its own name against the IDF Chief of Staff, the...

On 23 March 2005, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General (AG) requesting the cancellation of regulations issued by the Ministry of Education's (MoE) Jerusalem district security officer which...

On 9 March 2005, Adalah filed a petition and a request for an urgent hearing to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of Mr. Atwa al-Nebari and in its own name against the IDF Chief of Staff, the...

On 17 March 2005, Adalah wrote an urgent letter to the Israeli Transport Minister, Meir Sheetrit, urging him to cancel a new amendment to the Traffic Regulations - 1961, which authorizes the...

On 2 March 2005, the Supreme Court of Israel ordered the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to explain its decision to prevent political prisoners – classified by the IPS as "security" prisoners...

On 1 March 2005, the Supreme Court of Israel rejected a motion submitted by Adalah seeking to temporarily freeze the “Nationality and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) –...

On 22 February 2005, the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) Municipality filed its written response to the Supreme Court of Israel, stating therein its rejection of the Court's proposal regarding the...

Yesterday, 28 February 2005, the Akka (Acre) Magistrate Court held the first hearing on a motion submitted by the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit (“Mahash”) in October...

At a hearing on 22 February 2005, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an order nisi demanding that the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs explain within 30 days why not to open a secure shelter...

On 20 February 2005, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General, the Minister of Interior and the Minister of Trade and Industry, requesting the cancellation of lawsuits filed to evacuate the...

In 21 February 2005, Adalah submitted a motion to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding that it rule on petitions currently pending before it challenging the constitutionality of the...

In a response to a petition filed to the Supreme Court of Israel in March 2004, the Israel Lands Administration (ILA) admitted on 7 February 2005 to aerially spraying agricultural crops cultivated...

On 1 February 2005, following a petition submitted by Adalah, the Attorney General's (AG) Office sent a letter to the Supreme Court of Israel agreeing not to order the police to evacuate and tear...

According to reports in the media, in response to a petition filed by Adalah to the Supreme Court of Israel, Attorney General (AG) Menachem Mazuz ruled yesterday, 26 January 2004, that the Israel...

On 27 January 2005, after almost three years of continuous hearings, the Magistrate Court in Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) acquitted four Arab citizens of Israel who were charged with sedition under...

On 30 December 2004, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that an elected leader - the head of a local committee - need not be consulted by a planning and building committee before the issuance of...