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A new Israeli law passed today prohibits boycott of businesses, universities, and social and cultural institutions based in Israel and the illegal settlements, and imposes heavy financial sanctions...

(Haifa, Israel) On 29 June 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on a petition submitted by Adalah on behalf of Arab farmers in which it demanded the Arab village of Aramshe in Israel...

Volume 84, July- August 2011 Freedom of Expression – Political Dissent MK Ahmad Tibi petitions Israeli Supreme Court against the Knesset's decision to disqualify bill prohibiting Nakba denial...

On 26 June 2011, Adalah sent a letter to Member of Knesset (MK) Amnon Cohen, Chairman of the Knesset's Interior Committee, demanding that a bill to amend the Prisons Ordinance that would increase...

Today, 26 June 2011, to mark the International Day Against Torture, Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights have released a new position paper calling for an...

On 21 June 2011, to mark the International Day Against Torture, Adalah and several human rights organization partners hosted an event to launch a new edited volume entitled Threat: Palestinian...

(Haifa, Israel) In June 2011, Adalah sent three legal letters to demand an end to the exclusion of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel from the labor market solely on the basis of their national...

On 26 June 2011, Adalah sent a letter to the Israel Prison Service (IPS) demanding that it prepare for the hot, summer weather by immediately improving conditions and installing air cooling devices...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) On 22 June 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a 40-page ruling on a petition filed by Adalah in August 2002 in which it demanded that the Big Mosque in the Old City of...

On 15 June 2011, Adalah submitted a detailed complaint to the Ministry of Justice's Police Investigation Unit ("Mahash") to demand the opening of a criminal investigation against Mr. Kobi Bachar,...

(Haifa, Israel). Today, Monday 20 June 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel held the first hearing on two petitions submitted by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) against...

Following an urgent letter by Adalah, on 16 June 2011 the Municipality of Ramleh (Ramla) reconnected the Arab Al-Omariyah Elementary School to the internet after it had been cut off for several...

On 13 June 2011, Adalah sent a letter to Mr. Daniel Lavi, Head of the Israeli Water Board to demand that three unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages of Umm el-Hieran, Gatamat and Tel Arad in the Naqab...

On 12 June 2011, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Israeli Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein, to demand a criminal investigation into the Mayor of Natseret Illit, Shimon Gapso, following racist...

The Haifa District Court has dismissed a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of 24 individuals from the village of Daliyat al-Carmel that demands the cancellation of a master plan for a "National...

(Haifa, Israel) Yesterday, 5 June 2011, the Israeli Supreme Court delivered a decision on an appeal filed by Adalah five years ago, in 2006, on behalf Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel living in six...

Volume 83, June 2011 Religious Rights Israeli Supreme Court rules to turn Big Mosque in Beer el-Sabe into an "Islamic Museum" The Right to Water Israeli Supreme Court: Arab Bedouin in unrecognized...

(Haifa, Israel) On 18 May 2011, Adalah and Baladna held a public event at the Al-Meidan Theater in Haifa on the Nakba of the Arab Bedouin in the Naqab (Negev). The speakers discussed the problems...

The seminar will be held on Wednesday, 18th May 2011 at 19:00 at the Al-Meidan Theater in Haifa. The seminar will address the issues facing the unrecognized villages through the case of the village...

Adalah is currently representing several detainees and defendants who participated in protests against repeated home demolitions and forcible expulsions from the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village...