Press Releases

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...

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...

(Haifa, Israel) Yesterday, 5 June 2011, the Israeli Supreme Court delivered a decision on an appeal filed by Adalah five years ago, in 2006, on behalf Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel living in six...

(Haifa, Israel) On 18 May 2011, Adalah and Baladna held a public event at the Al-Meidan Theater in Haifa on the Nakba of the Arab Bedouin in the Naqab (Negev). The speakers discussed the problems...

The seminar will be held on Wednesday, 18th May 2011 at 19:00 at the Al-Meidan Theater in Haifa. The seminar will address the issues facing the unrecognized villages through the case of the village...

Adalah is currently representing several detainees and defendants who participated in protests against repeated home demolitions and forcible expulsions from the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village...

(Haifa, Israel) On 16 May 2011, after hours of hearings, Judge Enam Dahleh-Shargawe of the Magistrates' Court in Safad decided to release six detainees arrested during Nakba demonstrations in...

(Haifa, Israel – May 17, 2011) – –Former IDF Spokesperson Brigadier General Ruth Yaron and former Southern Brigade Commander, Colonel Pinhas (Pinky) Zuaretz are both scheduled to testify on...

On 16 May 2011, Adalah sent a letter to the Dean of Students and President of the University of Haifa on behalf of Arab student Rabia' Eid to demand the cancellation of the university...

On 11 May 2011, Adalah and Nadi al-Aseer (the Palestinian Prisoners' Club) sent a pre-petition to the Israeli Attorney General, the Minister of Internal Security and the Head of the Israeli Prison...

Schools, universities, local councils and cultural institutions may suffer budget cuts if they commemorate the day of the establishment of Israel as a day of Nakba; Court asked to issue order...

May 29, 2009 Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu Mr. Shimon Peres Mr. Reuven Rivlin Re: Legislative bills aimed against the Arab citizens in Israel

(Haifa, Israel) Yesterday, 26 April 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel ordered Israel's parliament, the Knesset, to explain its decision to revoke certain parliamentary privileges of Member of...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) On 17 April 2011, Adalah submitted a motion for the right to appeal to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel living in the unrecognized...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) On 31 March 2011, Adalah sent a letter to the Abu Basma Regional Council and the Interior Ministry demanding the opening of the therapeutic day care center for children at...

(Haifa, Israel) Today, 14 April 2011, Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmund Levy leveled scathing criticism at the lack of compliance with rulings handed down by the Supreme Court in the road signs...

Adalah successfully concluded its training course for lawyers on “Representing Detainees in Detention and Investigation Procedures” held on 17-18 March and 7-8 April 2011 at Al-Tantour Center...

On 4 -5 April 2011, Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR), and the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza held a two-day...

Israeli Human Rights Organizations: "The recent statements by Richard Goldstone support the consistent position we have been upholding since the operation in Gaza, that when concerns arise...

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...