Supreme Court

Israeli Supreme Court hearing on petitions against law held 22 December; Adalah: The law's distinct apartheid characteristics guarantee Israel’s ethnic-religious character as exclusively Jewish,...

On 9 June 2020, the Israeli Supreme Court decided to cancel the "Settlements Regularization Law for Judea and Samaria [the West Bank]", finding that the law disproportionately violates the rights...

Adalah: 5-4 decision clearly demonstrates the fragility of the political rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel and their elected representatives; disqualification motions have one sole purpose -...

UN CESCR: Israeli law violates int'l treaty, recommends restoring Arabic's official status, & details Israeli violations of Bedouin rights; Israel obligated to defend Nation-State Law before UN...

Israel is holding bodies of 16 Palestinians as bargaining chips; will delay transfer of bodies until final decision is reached following additional hearing five months from now.

Court fee to rise from 1,794 to 5,400 shekels; Israeli plan intended to reduce number of petitions filed by Palestinian residents of the Occupied Territories to Supreme Court.

MK Jabareen: "Our presence in the Knesset is not a favor from the Netanyahu government. We are in the Knesset in order to struggle to protect our rights."

Adalah and Addameer: Positive announcement comes despite Israel’s repeated stalling and evasion of obligations to date.

Petitioners: There is no rational relationship between social welfare benefits and punishment for criminal offenses.

Adalah & Addameer: "Uncovering the truth is a critical component to the rights of the deceased and his family to human dignity."

Preventing an autopsy reinforces strong suspicions that the police tampered with the evidence and impeded the process of investigation.

Adalah: Court's decision legitimizes Israel's longstanding colonial policy of racial discrimination, segregation, and dispossession.

On Human Rights Day 2015, Adalah has compiled a summary of 10 unjust and discriminatory decisions made by the Supreme Court this year, on petitions filed by Adalah and other partner organizations.

A new legislative amendment does not offer any remedy to the victims of the harshest methods Israel uses to elicit confessions during interrogations: namely, Palestinian security detainees and who...

The difference between two Supreme Court rulings on land rights cases lies in the difference between what Israel views as “unwanted” Arab Bedouin citizens, versus Jewish citizens who “protect...

Adalah: The court's request to the state indicates that it believes the petitioners' arguments are correct; the continuation of the detention is therefore very problematic from a legal point of view.

Adalah: "The 5 May 2015 Supreme Court decision sets a dangerous historical precedent."

This article, written by Adalah Attorney Myssana Morany, was published in Ha'aretz on 14 May 2015.

Adalah: The ruling completely ignores the political, social and historical roots of the community, and legitimizes the racist demolition and displacement of an entire Arab village to build a Jewish...

Adalah: "The Court’s decision has validated one of Israel’s most racist and arbitrary laws, and has given the green light for the application of arbitrary codes on occupied land and its...