Supreme Court

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2020-12-21
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...
2020-02-10
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 -...
2019-11-06
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...
2018-02-21
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.
2017-12-28
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.
2017-05-22
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."
2016-05-05
Adalah and Addameer: Positive announcement comes despite Israel’s repeated stalling and evasion of obligations to date.
2016-04-22
Petitioners: There is no rational relationship between social welfare benefits and punishment for criminal offenses.
2016-03-22
Adalah & Addameer: "Uncovering the truth is a critical component to the rights of the deceased and his family to human dignity."
2016-03-17
Preventing an autopsy reinforces strong suspicions that the police tampered with the evidence and impeded the process of investigation.
2016-01-17
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.
2015-09-29
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...
2015-09-10
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...
2015-08-18
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.
2015-06-08
Adalah: "The 5 May 2015 Supreme Court decision sets a dangerous historical precedent."
2015-05-14
This article, written by Adalah Attorney Myssana Morany, was published in Ha'aretz on 14 May 2015.
2015-05-06
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...
2015-04-17
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...