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On 5 January 2011, Adalah in its own name and on behalf of Physicians for Human Rights – Israel and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Gaza) submitted a complaint to the Attorney General of...

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On 31 December 2010, the Knesset's Economic Affairs Committee decided to award subsidies to Arab farmers to produce six million eggs annually out of a new quota totaling 26 million eggs for all...

On 3 January 2011, Adalah and the National Committee of Arab Mayors (NCAM) issued an urgent letter to the Israeli Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein, demanding that he open a criminal investigation...

Volume 78, January 2011 Land and Planning Rights Adalah, Bimkom and residents of unrecognized village of Umm al-Hieran in the Naqab submit objection to plan to build Jewish town of...

In a petition submitted today, 21 December 2010, to the Supreme Court of Israel, Adalah demanded the cancellation of a sweeping exemption in law granted to the Israeli police and the General...

On 12 December 2010, Adalah sent a letter to the Minister of Housing and Construction and the Israel Land Administration (ILA) demanding that they compel housing associations that enter bids for...

On 19 December 2010, Adalah submitted a letter to the Head of the Municipality of Jerusalem, Nir Barakat, demanding the cancellation of a recent municipal decision that forces shop-owners in East...

On 13 December 2010, Adalah sent a letter to the Israel Land Administration (ILA) demanding the cancellation of an internal ILA decision issued in 2007 that orders public land to be transferred to...

On 8 December 2010, Adalah petitioned the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of 70 school children and their parents from the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Sawaween in the Naqab (Negev),...

On 19 December 2010, Adalah submitted a letter to the Head of the Municipality of Jerusalem, Nir Barakat, demanding the cancellation of a recent municipal decision that forces shop-owners in East...

Volume 77, December 2010 New Report Inequality Report: The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel December 2010 Criminal Justice Adalah petitions Supreme Court to compel police and GSS to make audio...

On 30 November 2010, Adalah, on behalf of the High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and its sub-group, the Committee against National Service, sent an urgent letter to the Education...

Despite the Israel Prison Service's (IPS) clear legal obligation to provide books to prisoners through prison sales centers (“canteens”), they continue to fail to make Arabic books available,...

On 26 November 2010, Adalah sent a letter to the chair of the Knesset's Committee of Internal Affairs, MK David Azoulay, to demand that a bill to amend the Citizenship Law should be rejected. The...

In recent weeks the Israeli National Insurance Institute (NII) has begun to transfer disability payments to 500 beneficiaries from Gaza, after their cancellation at the beginning of 2009. The NII...

In a rare move, the National Council for Planning and Building (NCPB) met in Jerusalem on 16 November 2010, as requested by Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's office, to reconsider its decision...

A sentencing hearing will be held for Ameer Makhoul, the director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Organizations and a human rights defender, on Wednesday 20 December 2010 in...

On 3 November 2010, Adalah submitted a pre-petition to the Attorney General's Office demanding the establishment of the first elementary school in the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Swawin...

Adalah requests urgent action from UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing to address housing challenges of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel