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Today, Adalah Attorney Marwan Dalal, on behalf of the Committee of Arab Municipalities, three Palestinian Arab NGOs, and individuals, filed a petition against the Prime Minister and the Minister of...

The Supreme Court today awarded Adalah legal fees for its representation of the Parents Committee in Segev Shalom (Shkeb) against the government-appointed Local Council in Segev Shalom and the...

Adalah today filed a motion to the Supreme Court of Israel seeking the imposition of a heavy fine on the Minister of Health for his failure to build six Mother & Child clinics in a number of...

Adalah Advocate Marwan Dalal appeared before the Supreme Court of Israel today for a hearing concerning Adalah’s petition against the government-appointed Council in Segev-Shalom and the...

Adalah hosted a reception on Saturday December 18th to announce the publication of the first volume of our new journal, Adalah's Review. The celebration was held at the Galilee Society Building in...

Al-Jelasi is a neighborhood in the Arab village of Kammaneh, located in the north of Israel near Karmiel. Al-Jelasi forms the center of the village, which also includes West and East Kammaneh. Both...

The Attorney General today instructed all government ministries to begin printing their official notices in Arabic as well as Hebrew, specifically referring to those announcements calling for the...

Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel submitted a petition today, 1 December 1999, to the High Court on behalf of the Parents Committee in Segev Shalom (Shkeb) against the...

Presentation on the "Nakba (Catastrophe)", by Adalah Attorney Suhad BisharaÂ

Al-Jelasi is a neighborhood in the Arab village of Kammaneh, located in the north of Israel near Karmiel. Al-Jelasi forms the center of the village, which also includes West and East Kammaneh. Both...

On November 4, 1999, a representative from the Attorney General’s office abruptly stopped the Knesset’s deliberations on the 2000 budget for the Ministry of Religious Affairs. According...

Two legal advisors to the Knesset have recommended the immediate disqualification of a bill, initiated by MK Mohammed Baraka (Jebha/Hadash), which would guarantee equal rights for Palestinian Arab...

On October 9th 1999, Adalah hosted a panel discussion entitled “The Palestinian Minority in Israel: Between Integration and Collective Rights” at its offices in Shfaram. Speakers at the...

In the wake of September's attempted bombing attacks in Haifa and Tiberias, Israel's security forces last week announced a series of security recommendations aimed at limiting the power of the...

In our opinion, these recommendations are completely unacceptable. Even their partial implementation would violate and erode the basic civil rights of many of the Arab citizens of Israel, and...

Today, Adalah called upon the Attorney General and the Prime Minister to establish an official committee of inquiry into the recent events of police brutality against Arab citizens in Lod and Umm...

Introduction: The Supreme Court of Israel, in a much criticized ruling in June 1999, decided not to consider a petition against the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Erez to lead a highly...

In late 1998, following the signing of the Wye Plantation Accords, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud-led government lost a vote of no confidence in the Knesset. The Knesset was...

On 23 December 1999, Justice Arthur Chaskalson and Benjamin Pogrund met with Adalah staff, Board members, and other Palestinian lawyers at Adalah’s offices. Justice Chaskalson, a leading...

On 23 December 1999, Justice Arthur Chaskalson and Benjamin Pogrund met with Adalah staff, Board members, and other Palestinian lawyers at Adalah’s offices. Justice Chaskalson, a leading...