Religious rights

Health Ministry imposing Jewish religious law on Arab citizens with no legal authority: ‘No law in the State of Israel prevents citizens from carrying leavened foods into hospitals.’

Adalah: "The order issued by the Defense Minister is a violation and crackdown on the Islamic Movement's rights to freedom of association and political expression, and harms the Palestinian-Arab...

Adalah: The Court's decision is dominated by political calculations more than by legal reasoning; ban on travel to Arab countries is discriminatory and repressive.

Hospital security guards in Afula confiscated Arab citizen's food, threw some of it on the ground, and placed the rest in a special cupboard for leavened foods.

Adalah: The IPS’s sweeping order for 24-hour a day shackling of the prisoners has no relation with the seriousness of any risk posed or not by each person.

To mark the 65th Nakba Day, on 13 May 2013, Adalah and the Iqrit Community Association hosted a study tour for ambassadors, diplomats, and foreign journalists to the depopulated Palestinian village...

(Haifa, Israel) In a decision issued today, 26 December 2012, the Nazareth District Court rejected the preliminary arguments submitted by Adalah on behalf of Member of Knesset (MK) Sa'id Naffaa to...

UN Human Rights Committee releases List of Issues, (LOIPR), questions for Israel's review. Adalah's report and the UNHRC's focus include questions on equality and discrimination in Israel's Basic...

On 2 April 2012, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court Israel against the Ministry of Culture and Sports demanding that it offer free cultural programs to all children - Jewish and Arab...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) It is a surprise to everyone who visits the Big Mosque in Beer el-Sabe(Beer Sheva) today: The lobby and walls of the mosque are covered in pictures of government buildings...

Tomorrow, Monday 30 January 2012, at 9 o'clock am, the District Court in Nazareth will hold its first hearing in the case of Arab Member of Knesset (MK) Sa'id Naffaa. MK Naffaa has been criminally...

(Haifa, Israel) On 26 December 2011, the Israeli Attorney General (AG) Yehuda Weinstein submitted an indictment before the Nazareth District Court against MK Sa'id Naffaa .

(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...

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...