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On 1 July 2008, a 21-8 majority of the Israeli Knesset approved an extension to the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) for an additional year until July 2009. The Knesset...

Adalah: “The Mivtahim Company acted as the state’s agent for the purpose of effecting the confiscation, and is not entitled to exploit the confiscation procedures in order to sell the...

Volume 50, July 2008 www.adalah.org Land and Planning Rights Supreme Court permits the sale of land on the open market which was confiscated by the state from Arab landowners in 1958 New...

Today, 29 June 2008, the Supreme Court of Israel ordered the state to notify the court within 30 days of its intention to implement the Supreme Court's decision from February 2006 regarding the...

Adalah: Mr. Nebari was shot dead in the West Bank, in circumstances indicating the commission of criminal offenses by the Israeli military. Handing down its decision today, the Israeli Supreme...

Today, 24 June 2008, Adalah and the local council of the Arab village of Jisr al-Zarqa filed a petition to the District Court in Tel Aviv demanding that the village be connected to the main,...

The Attorney General (AG) of Israel, Menachem Mazuz, responded to a letter sent by Adalah on 10 April 2008 in which the organization demanded that directives be issued to the General Security...

Preventing family visits has in practice led to the complete isolation of approximately 1,000 Palestinian prisoners from the outside world Today, 17 June 2008, Adalah filed a petition to the...

On 10 June 2008, the Israeli Knesset approved the first reading of the Civilian Damages Bill (Responsibility of the State) (Amendment 8) – 2008. Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann...

A delegation composed of representatives of Arab political parties represented in the Knesset, the High Follow-up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel and Adalah traveled to South Africa on 5...

On 1 June 2008, Adalah sent a letter to the Minister of the Interior and the Attorney General on behalf of the Union of Popular Committees against Home Demolitions in the Triangle and Wadi Ara,...

On 1 June 2008, Adalah sent a letter to the director of the Clalit Health Servies, the largest sick fund in Israel, and to the chairperson of the fund's board of directors, demanding that they...

Volume 49, June 2008 www.adalah.org Prisoners’ Rights Adalah, Al Mezan and the Association for the Palestinian Prisoners petition Supreme Court demanding Palestinians from Gaza be permitted...

On 28 May 2008, Adalah submitted a pre-petition to the State Attorney demanding his immediate intervention to enable the families of political prisoners from the Gaza Strip to visit their relatives...

Adalah and the Arab Association for Human Rights Collecting Eyewitness Testimonies to Document Police Violence and File Complaints Ten Arab Citizens of Israel Detained by Police and later Released...

On 30 April 2008, Adalah sent a letter to the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General demanding that they object to a new bill that would absolve the police from making audio and video...

Today, 6 May 2008, the Israeli Supreme Court issued an order nisi (order to show cause) on a petition filed by Adalah challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law....

MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008, 16:00 (4:00 P.M.) (Shafa'amr, Israel – 1 May 2008) - On Monday 5 May 2008 at 4 pm, an expanded panel of seven justices of the Israeli Supreme Court will hear four...

In 2006, the national egg production quota in Israel was 671 billion eggs; in 2007, that figure rose to 678 billion eggs. In 2007, the Knesset's Economics Committee approved an additional NIS 8...

Volume 48, May 2008 www.adalah.org The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Nakba The March for the Right of Return 2008: The Safouriya Events Presentation on the "Nakba (Catastrophe)", by Adalah Attorney...