Press Releases

On 21 August 2005, the Chairperson of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens in Israel Mr. Shawqi Khatib, members of the Victims' Families Committee Mr. Hassan Asleh and Mr. Abdel Menem Abu...

On 23 August 2005, Adalah filed a petition to the Tel Aviv District Court against the Municipality of Led (Lod) and the Ministry of Education (MOE), following their decision to refuse to register...

The Regional Labor Court in Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) issued a decision on 1 August 2005, in which it accepted in full an appeal filed by Adalah obliging the National Insurance Institute (NII) to...

22 July 2005, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee) issued its Concluding Observations, following its review of Israel's Third Periodic Report on its...

On 31 July 2005, Adalah filed a motion to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding an order to suspend the implementation of the Nationality and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) – 2003...

On 16 August 2004, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding that the Court issue an order of injunction instructing the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to allow the children...

On 18 July 2005, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel against the Minister of Finance and the Attorney General (AG), requesting the inclusion of five Arab Bedouin towns in the...

On 13 July 2005, the Supreme Court of Israel dismissed a petition filed in May 2004 by Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights-Gaza,...

On 21 July 2005, Adalah and Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights submitted a request to the Ministry of the Interior's Northern District Supervisor, Mr. Herzl Gedj, to include the western...

On 6 July 2005, the UN Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) held a one-day session at UN headquarters in New York to review Israel's Third Periodic Report, which...

On 13 July 2005, Adalah filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel, demanding the issuance of an order to direct the Ministries of Education, the Interior, Construction and Housing, and...

After seven years of legal and bureaucratic struggle, on 30 June 2005, the Northern District Appellate Committee (NDAC) decided to accept Adalah's appeal on behalf of Adel and Itaaf Sawaed and to...

On 4 June 2005, Adalah received a letter from the Attorney General (AG) stating that the Ministry of Education (MOE) had been ordered to cancel regulations which discriminate against Palestinian...

On 18 June 2005, Adalah sent a letter to Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Attorney General (AG) Menachem Mazuz, calling on them to reject the Gadish Committee's recommendations to...

On 22 June 2005, the Attorney General (AG) announced to Israel's Supreme Court the cancellation of a policy by which a General Security Services (GSS) representative serves as the deputy director...

On 20 June 2005, Adalah submitted a motion for an injunction to the Supreme Court of Israel, requesting that the Court freeze a governmental decision issued on 2 June 2005. The decision awards...

On 6 June 2005, in response to a petition filed by Adalah to the Supreme Court, the Attorney General acknowledged that the Ministry of Education (MOE) has discriminated against schools in seven...

On 7 June 2005, the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit ("Mahash") informed the Akka (Acre) Magistrate Court that it was withdrawing its request to exhume and autopsy the body of Asil...

On 19 May 2005, the Attorney General (AG) informed the Supreme Court of Israel of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor's (MITL) decision to cancel its previous instruction to close the...

On 29 May 2005, Adalah submitted a motion for contempt of court, on behalf of inhabitants of Al-Jelasi neighborhood in Kammaneh, to the Supreme Court of Israel, against the Misgav Regional Council,...