Press Releases
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2011-09-06
On 4 September 2011, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Israeli government and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu urging them not to approve the Prawer Committee report. The Prawer Committee was...
2011-09-01
(Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Israel) Today, 1 September 2011, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), together with its partners Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and the Al...
2011-08-04
On 1 August 2011, after extensive correspondence, Adalah received a written response from the Israeli military prosecutor for the Israeli navy informing it that dozens of fishermen from Gaza would...
2011-07-27
(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) Nearly one year after the first demolition of the unrecognized village of Al-Araqib in the Naqab (Negev), Arab Bedouin residents of the village along with activists from...
2011-07-21
(Haifa, Israel) Today, 21 July 2011, Adalah petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of MK Dr. Ahmad Tibi (Ra'am-Ta'al), against the Speaker of the Knesset, MK Reuven Rivlin, for prohibiting...
2011-07-12
A new Israeli law passed today prohibits boycott of businesses, universities, and social and cultural institutions based in Israel and the illegal settlements, and imposes heavy financial sanctions...
2011-07-04
(Haifa, Israel) On 29 June 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on a petition submitted by Adalah on behalf of Arab farmers in which it demanded the Arab village of Aramshe in Israel...
2011-06-28
On 26 June 2011, Adalah sent a letter to Member of Knesset (MK) Amnon Cohen, Chairman of the Knesset's Interior Committee, demanding that a bill to amend the Prisons Ordinance that would increase...
2011-06-26
Today, 26 June 2011, to mark the International Day Against Torture, Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights have released a new position paper calling for an...
2011-06-26
On 21 June 2011, to mark the International Day Against Torture, Adalah and several human rights organization partners hosted an event to launch a new edited volume entitled Threat: Palestinian...
2011-06-26
(Haifa, Israel) In June 2011, Adalah sent three legal letters to demand an end to the exclusion of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel from the labor market solely on the basis of their national...
2011-06-26
On 26 June 2011, Adalah sent a letter to the Israel Prison Service (IPS) demanding that it prepare for the hot, summer weather by immediately improving conditions and installing air cooling devices...
2011-06-24
(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...
2011-06-20
On 15 June 2011, Adalah submitted a detailed complaint to the Ministry of Justice's Police Investigation Unit ("Mahash") to demand the opening of a criminal investigation against Mr. Kobi Bachar,...
2011-06-20
(Haifa, Israel). Today, Monday 20 June 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel held the first hearing on two petitions submitted by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) against...
2011-06-16
Following an urgent letter by Adalah, on 16 June 2011 the Municipality of Ramleh (Ramla) reconnected the Arab Al-Omariyah Elementary School to the internet after it had been cut off for several...
2011-06-15
On 13 June 2011, Adalah sent a letter to Mr. Daniel Lavi, Head of the Israeli Water Board to demand that three unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages of Umm el-Hieran, Gatamat and Tel Arad in the Naqab...
2011-06-14
On 12 June 2011, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Israeli Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein, to demand a criminal investigation into the Mayor of Natseret Illit, Shimon Gapso, following racist...
2011-06-08
The Haifa District Court has dismissed a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of 24 individuals from the village of Daliyat al-Carmel that demands the cancellation of a master plan for a "National...
