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On 9 May 2005, Adalah sent an urgent letter to all Israeli government ministers and to the Attorney General, requesting that the ministers refrain from submitting a proposed bill to extend and...

On 16 January 2005, Adalah sent a letter to the new Interior Minister of Israel, Ophir Pines-Paz, requesting that he intervene immediately to terminate the process of amending and extending the...

On 26 October 2004, the Supreme Court of Israel held a first hearing on a petition filed in May 2004 by Adalah, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - Gaza (PCHR), and Al-Haq, and ten...

On 30 June 2004, Adalah, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – Gaza (PCHR) and Al-Haq submitted a motion for an order of injunction to the Supreme Court to prevent the Israeli military...

Today, 21 July 2004, Adalah submitted a motion for injunction order to the Supreme Court requesting the temporary suspension of the Nationality and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) –...

Following today's decision by the Israeli cabinet to extend the law banning family unification, Adalah calls on Members of Knesset (MKs) to vote against the six-month extension of the...

On Sunday 18 July 2004, the Israeli government will vote on a one-year extension of the “Nationality and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) – 2003,” which prohibits the...

In June 2004, Adalah, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – Gaza (PCHR) and Al-Haq submitted a motion for an order of injunction to the Supreme Court to prevent the Israeli military...

On July 7 2004, the Supreme Court held a hearing of the petition submitted by Adalah and Hamoked Center for Defence of the Individual (Hamoked) in May 2004. During the hearing, the Israeli Military...

Adalah and the Hamoked Center for Defence of the Individual (Hamoked) filed a petition to the Supreme Court on 31 May 2004, seeking the cancellation of a new order which conditions the issuance and...

Today, 27 May 2004, Adalah, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – Gaza (PCHR) and Al-Haq filed a petition and a motion for injunction to the Supreme Court of Israel against IDF Major...

Today, 27 May 2004, Adalah, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – Gaza (PCHR) and Al-Haq filed a petition and a motion for injunction to the Supreme Court of Israel against IDF Major...

On Sunday, 18 January 2004, an enlarged panel of 13 justices of the Supreme Court of Israel held a second hearing on petitions challenging the constitutionality of a new law that prohibits the...

At a hearing on 9 November 2003, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an order nisi compelling the state to explain why the new ban on family unification law, which prohibits the granting of any...

On Sunday, 9 November 2003 at 10 a.m., the Supreme Court of Israel will hold the first hearing on petitions challenging the constitutionality of a new law, enacted on 31 July 2003, prohibiting the...

On 14 September 2003, Adalah sent a letter to the Director of the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit ("Mahash"), Attorney Herzel Shviro, inquiring as to whether Mahash intends to...

Yesterday, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel challenging the constitutionality of a new law that prohibits the granting of residency or citizenship status to Palestinians...

On 29 April 2002, Adalah submitted a pre-petition to the office of the Attorney General demanding that he address the inhumane conditions of Ansar III Detention Center ("Ketziot"). The conditions...

On 19 April 2002, Adalah Staff Attorney Jamil Dakwar submitted a pre-petition to the Attorney General demanding that he immediately order the Ministry of Interior to permit the entrance into Israel...

On 10 January 2002, Adalah sent a letter to the Prime Minister’s Advisor for Arab Affairs, Uri Borovsky, protesting a letter that Mr. Borovsky had sent to the editors of the Palestinian...