Press Releases

On July 7 2004, the Supreme Court held a hearing of the petition submitted by Adalah and Hamoked Center for Defence of the Individual (Hamoked) in May 2004. During the hearing, the Israeli Military...

On 2 June 2004, the Northern District Planning and Building Committee (NDPBC) rescinded its motion for demolition order without conviction of the home of Mr. Hussein Sawaed, an Arab citizen of...

On 2 June 2004, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled on the petition submitted in July 2002 by Adalah and the Tel Aviv University Law Clinic, against a government decision to exclude Arab towns from...

The Ministerial Committee report did not relate to the failure to indict any of the policemen or police officers involved in the October 2000 events. Adalah is gravely concerned as this failure...

On 1 June 2004, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court on behalf of the Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages in the Naqab (Negev), the Union of Students' Affairs in the Naqab, the...

Adalah and the Hamoked Center for Defence of the Individual (Hamoked) filed a petition to the Supreme Court on 31 May 2004, seeking the cancellation of a new order which conditions the issuance and...

Today, 27 May 2004, Adalah, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – Gaza (PCHR) and Al-Haq filed a petition and a motion for injunction to the Supreme Court of Israel against IDF Major...

Today, 27 May 2004, Adalah, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – Gaza (PCHR) and Al-Haq filed a petition and a motion for injunction to the Supreme Court of Israel against IDF Major...

Yesterday, 12 May 2004, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General demanding that he issue an order requiring the General Security Services (GSS) to record all interrogations of suspects,...

On 3 May 2004, a Supreme Court hearing was held on a petition and a motion for an injunction filed by Adalah demanding that the Ministry of Education (MOE) issue a public bid for a replacement for...

On 20 April 2004, Adalah filed an appeal to the State Attorney's Office against the decision of the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit (“Mahash”) to close its file against...

On 28 April 2004, a Supreme Court hearing was held on a petition filed by Adalah demanding that the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Finance (MOF) allocate the necessary physician and...

On 25 April 2004, Adalah submitted a complaint to the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit (“Mahash”) and to the Attorney General on behalf of 10 Arab citizens of Israel from...

On 28 April 2004, one month after the filing of Adalah's petition and the state's acknowledgement that a “mistake” had been made, the State Attorney's Office notified the Haifa District...

On 4 May 2004, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding that the Ministry of Education (MOE) provide the necessary number of educational psychologists' positions to...

28 April 2004, Adalah submitted a motion requesting the immediate issuance of an injunction and an urgent hearing in the “human shields” case, pending before the Court since May 2002.

On 28 March 2004, the Attorney General's Office submitted its response to a petition and a motion for an injunction filed by Adalah to the Supreme Court on 19 October 2003 demanding the...

On 12 March 2004, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an order nisi (order to show cause) requiring the Attorney General's Office to explain the exclusion of seven Arab Bedouin towns in the Naqab...

Yesterday, on 31 March 2004, the Haifa District Court denied motions filed on behalf of two political detainees against the warden of the Kishon Detention Center (also known as "Jalameh"), the...

Today, 23 March 2004, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a temporary injunction, as requested by Adalah in a petition filed yesterday, preventing the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), the Ministry...