Adalah's Newsletter Volume 63, August 2009

 

Volume 63, August 2009 www.adalah.org
Education Rights
 
Following Adalah’s intervention, Education Ministry commits to opening an Arab high school in Led (Lod) for the 2009/2010 school year
 
 
New Data on Education: The drop-out rate among Arab students in grades 9-12 is 7.2%, almost double the rate of Jewish students, at 3.7% (2008)
 
Articles
 
 
    Arab Education in Israel: Between the Discourse of Struggling Identity and
Low Achievement
Dr. Khaled Abu Asbeh,
Board of Directors, Adalah
 
 
 
    On Institutional Discrimination in the Implementation of Israeli Supreme
Court Decisions
Sawsan Zaher,
Adalah Attorney
 
 
 
Workers' Rights
 
Al Mezan, Adalah and others petition Israeli Supreme Court to order National Insurance Institute to transfer disability payments to Palestinian workers in Gaza immediately
 
Land and Planning Rights
 
Israel is Selling Lands in the Occupied Territories: Adalah Position Paper on the State's Privatization of Land in Settlements in the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem
Adalah Attorney Suhad Bishara 

Adalah Urban and Regional Planner Hana Hamdan
 
 
    Video: On 3.8.09 the Knesset passed the new land reform law, which violates the property rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinian refugees
 
 
Special summary report on the new Israel land reform law
 
 
Adalah to Israel Land Administration and Jewish National Fund: Stop plans to forest land belonging to Arab Bedouin in Al-Araqib village in the Naqab (Negev)
 
 
“Green Patrol” inspector assaults elderly Arab Bedouin woman from the Naqab and destroys her tent
 
Prisoners' Rights
 
Adalah and Haifa University Prisoners’ Rights Clinic: State Prosecutor is systematically violating the rights of Palestinian prisoners to fair trial procedures
 
Religious Rights
 
Adalah to Defense Minister: The right of Arab citizens of Israel to visit their families in Gaza during Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr is a constitutional right
 

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