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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...

On 30 December 2004, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding that the Court order the Attorney General (AG) to file a criminal indictment against two Israeli police...

In a response submitted to the Supreme Court of Israel on 3 November 2004, Adalah argued that, by advocating the retention of a General Security Service (GSS) post in the Ministry of Education...

Today, 24 January 2005, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled on a petition submitted by Adalah in July 2003, which demanded that the Ministry of Education (MOE) assign counselors responsible for...

On 16 January 2005, Adalah sent a letter to the new Interior Minister of Israel, Ophir Pines-Paz, requesting that he intervene immediately to terminate the process of amending and extending the...

On 10 January 2005, Adalah received notice from the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit (“Mahash”) that the State Prosecutor had filed an indictment to Tel Aviv District Court...

On 30 December 2004, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of Member of Knesset (MK) Issam Makhoul (Hadash: The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), demanding...

On 24 December 2004, the Haifa District Court rejected Adalah's request for an immediate injunction, filed on behalf of the Arab Students' Committee, ordering Haifa University to permit the...

On 19 December 2004, Adalah sent a letter to the Minister of Internal Security, Gideon Ezra, demanding the cancellation of a regulation that discriminates between detainees classified as security...

On 9 December 2004, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) responded to two petitions submitted by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) to the Supreme Court in October 2004, against...

On 21 December 2004, the Tel Aviv District Court issued an injunction on a petition filed by Adalah in October 2004, preventing the closure of the Yaffa Arab Democratic School by the Ministry of...

Adalah: Supreme Court's Decision Violates Constitutional Right to Access to the Courts Today, 16 December 2004, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a decision dated 14 December 2004, on a petition...

On 22 November 2004, the Supreme Court of Israel issued its decision on a petition submitted by Adalah in March 2001, which demanded that Haifa Municipality publish public announcements in the...