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The "Prawer Plan," which the government initially approved in September 2011, outlines a problematic master plan. The plan is reminiscent of a previous government scheme for Arab Bedouin towns in...
Published in Ha'aretz on 2 September 2012. Attorney Hussein Abu Hussein, who represented Rachel Corrie's family in its suit against Israel, says they knew from the beginning that it would be an...
Raneen, a 36-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, is married to 39-year-old Hatem, a Palestinian from the West Bank. They have been living together in the north of Israel since getting married...
The government frequently tries to justify its anti-democratic bills by comparing them to laws in democratic states. Given the current state of affairs, it is perhaps even a good sign that the...
The state shirks its legal responsibility towards Palestinians who were inadvertently hurt during Israeli military activity in the West Bank and Gaza. Fady Khoury writes on the legal mechanisms...
In August 2009, Islam, Mar'am, Lina and Saf'aa, four Muslim girls from the Arab village of Jatt, located in the Triangle area in the center of Israel, went to visit their aunt in Tel Aviv.
When did you last see the Orthodox and secular, Arabs and Jews, newcomers and natives, students and neighborhood activists engaged in a common march and demonstration? On Monday night, 25 July...
A public debate is currently underway about the issue of raising the retirement age for women from 62 to 64 years of age. The Israeli Minister of Finance, Yuval Steinitz, appointed a public...
On the eve of the Knesset State Control Committee‟s meeting of 28 March 2011 to discuss the report of the Prawer Committee, the government body established in 2009 to implement the Goldberg...
The Supreme Court's judgment on the subject of Secret Prison 1391 was published recently, quietly and without ceremony. Anyone with great expectations for a resounding legal breakthrough was...
The Palestine documents that were disclosed by Al-Jazeera at the end of January included “alternative” proposals for relinquishing the Palestinian right to return. Such a move would mean...
Any citizen who cares deeply about the future of the State of Israel cannot but feel uneasy about the developments of the past decade and the growing number of racist incidents and intolerance...
There was no doubt that the prohibition on referring to the Nakba as a day of mourning would apply to schools within the Arab education system. This attempt to prohibit referring to the Nakba as a...
According to the Goldstone report’s recommendations, follow‐up may be exercised by three channels: (1) Israeli institutions; (2) the ICC; and (3) third states through the exercise of universal...
In its ruling of September 1999, the Supreme Court prohibited the use of a number of methods of interrogation and torture and ruled that the GSS has no authority to use violent means of...
Over seven years have passed and we are racing against time, unable to overcome the obstacles to obtain the fleeting justice. Seven years and our train has not stopped except at the stations of...
We were delighted when the creative writer, Alaa Hlehel, received the "Beirut 39" Festival Prize as one of the best young authors in the ِArab world. This prize is deserved recognition of a worthy...
There is no doubt that the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn the Israeli Interior Minister’s decision (which in turn received a green light from the Prime Minister) to ban the author Alaa...
The case of author Ala Hlehel presented an opportunity for us, lawyers and Arabs in Israel, to test a range of issues related to the status of the Arab minority in Israel and its rights under...
