Minority rights

In this speech, I intend to discuss what is called planning and urbanization for minorities. I will focus on two aspects of planning, one hidden and the other visible. The hidden aspect of planning...

As Israel celebrated its fifty-sixth Independence Day in April 2004, with most cars, streets, homes and public buildings draped in the national colors of blue and white, a senior member of the...

The right to education is not among the recognized constitutional rights enumerated in Israel's Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom – 1992. The Supreme Court has also refused to recognize the...

In 1998, Supreme Court justices were shocked to learn that Israel operates thirteen public schools that were not connected to the electricity grid, and consequently had no lighting, heating or...

Over the past 15 years, a small revolution has taken place in the profession of lawyering in Israel. Within this short span of time, tens of advocates have infiltrated the socio-legal arena,...

Any lawyer representing disempowered communities is aware that a great paradox currently exists within the modern legal system. For, whilst the concept of equality before the law has supposedly...

As part of its ongoing campaign to advocate and promote human rights in general and Arab minority rights in Israel in particular, Adalah published a series of three ads in Ha'aretz (Hebrew Edition)...