JNF – Jewish National Fund

The Knesset Economic Committee recently considered the issue of the Israel Land Administration reform, and approved a draft law on the subject. The draft law, inter alia, institutes a regime of...

Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on petitions filed by Adalah; by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel; and by the Tel Aviv University Law Clinic with Mossawa demanding the cancellation...

On 8 September 2008, the Magistrates’ Court in Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) rejected a request by the Israeli police to expel Mr. Nouri Al-Uqbi from his land in the Arab Bedouin village of...

Adalah met with 18 representatives from Consular Offices, Representative Offices to the Palestinian Authority (PA), and international development and human rights organizations on 21 November 2007...

On 15 October 2007, the Northern District Planning and Building Committee issued its decision regarding objections filed by Adalah in August 2006 on behalf of 16 Arab farmers from around the...

On 21 October 2007, Adalah filed a petition to the Haifa District Court on behalf of 24 people from Daliyat al-Carmel demanding the cancellation of the master plan for a “National Park and Har...

The Supreme Court approved the proposal made by the JNF and the Attorney General's Office to delay further deliberations on the petition for three months in order to allow them to reach a final...

On 18 June 2005, Adalah sent a letter to Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Attorney General (AG) Menachem Mazuz, calling on them to reject the Gadish Committee's recommendations to...

According to reports in the media, in response to a petition filed by Adalah to the Supreme Court of Israel, Attorney General (AG) Menachem Mazuz ruled yesterday, 26 January 2004, that the Israel...

Adalah asked the Court to issue an injunction ordering the ILA to freeze all open tenders and tenders shortly to be opened for the marketing of JNF lands, and ban the lease of these lands pending a...

Adalah Submits Position Paper to Committee Charged with Recommending Reforms in the Israel Lands Administration

On 10 June 2003, Adalah, in cooperation with the Committee for the Defence of Land Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in the Naqab, submitted an objection on behalf of eleven Arab Bedouin...

I write in response to the government’s recent stepped-up policy of forceful demolition of Arab citizens’ homes. In recent months, State authorities have demolished the homes of many Arab...