Admissions Committees

A petition by Adalah on behalf of nine organizations argues that a recent amendment to the law, aimed at 'strengthening Jewish settlement,' underscores its discriminatory purpose towards...

On 25 July 2023, by a 42-11 majority vote, the Israeli Knesset approved a new, racist law, which amends the Cooperative Societies Ordinance (Amendment No. 12), 2023. This new law essentially...

Adalah: The proposed law joins a series of measures designed to entrench racial segregation and advance the annexation of the West Bank.

Adalah warns the Ministerial Committee on Legislation that the proposed bill will deepen racial discrimination against Palestinians in Israel and in the OPT and violate international law.

Committees in Israeli Jewish towns can reject potential residents based on 'social suitability', essentially enforcing de facto housing segregation between Jewish and Arab citizens.

Adalah: Kfar Vradim's racist move, aimed to keep Arab citizens out and "preserve town's Zionist-Jewish-secular character," tramples most basic tenets of democracy.

Hiran set for construction in place of Bedouin town of Umm al-Hiran; state had committed: 'Hiran is planned as general community into which any Israeli of any background or religion may integrate'.

Adalah: Supreme Court's decision entrenches racial segregation; 434 small communities in Israel, or 43% of all residential areas, will be allowed to close their doors to Arab citizens of the state.

Israeli Supreme Court Hearing on Discriminatory ‘Admissions Committee Law’ to be held before 9 Justices Tuesday 4 December 2012, 9 am, Jerusalem (Haifa, Israel) At 9 am on Tuesday, 4 December...

(Haifa, Israel) On 25 January 2012, the Attorney General (AG) submitted the state's legal response to the Supreme Court of Israel on petitions filed by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights...

Petition filed by Adalah on behalf of married Arab couple Ms. Fatina Ebriq Zubeidat and Mr. Ahmed Zubeidat against the community town of Rakefet and the Israel Land Authority (ILA). The Court...

Following the passage of a racist law called the "Admission Committees Law" in the Knesset on 22 March 2011, on the same day as the “Nakba Law,” Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court...

On 1 February 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel heard two separate petitions - one submitted by Adalah (HCJ 8306/07) and the other filed by the Tel Aviv University Human Rights Clinic (HCJ 3552/08)...

On 27 October 2010, the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee approved the second and third readings of the proposed Admissions Committees Law - 2010, which would permit state-owned...

On 26 April 2005, Adalah sent a letter to the General Director of the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), Mr. Yaacov Efrati, demanding the cancellation of the ILA's Decision No. 1015 entitled,...

These procedures direct the Selection Committees of small community and agricultural settlements to apply a number of criteria in deciding whether or not to recommend that the ILA accept a...