Press Releases

Adalah, JLAC, and Al Mezan petitioned against 2017 law; Adalah: This is significant achievement against Israel's threatened impending annexation of parts of West Bank; nothing justifies war crimes.

Significant increase in Israeli state funds comes in wake of Adalah petition demanding equitable budgets for Arab municipalities; gov't originally allocated just 1.7% of aid to Arab local...

Adalah will continue to fight against Israel's perpetual state of emergency and its systematic violation of Palestinian rights and its devastating impact on human rights in general.

2003 Citizenship Law – one of one of the country's most discriminatory laws targeting Palestinian families – is a racist violation of the fundamental constitutional rights to equality and the...

Palestinian Bedouin residents of 48 villages in Naqab (Negev) region are served by post offices in just seven towns. As public transportation is significantly reduced to meet COVID-19 restrictions,...

Israel announces general return to school, but most schoolchildren from Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev) remain in their homes because of classroom overcrowding and schools’ lack of...

NGOs to Israel’s Attorney General and Military Advocate General: Stop military’s violent attacks on fishermen and open investigations; increased attacks come as Gaza faces economic uncertainty...

Shocking video clearly indicates appropriate open-fire procedures have not been engrained in Israeli security guards and police officers.

Under current Israeli law, individuals must be at least 20 years of age to qualify for unemployment benefits; large numbers of Palestinian employees losing their jobs during COVID-19 are young people.

Adalah’s Supreme Court petition calls for urgent action in northern Israeli facility housing 450 ‘security prisoners’; Gilboa prisoners unable to maintain required distance of two meters from...

Adalah: Israeli government's aid policy for local municipalities doesn’t take into account distinct characteristics of Arab communities and, in fact, runs contrary to Israel’s Basic Law: State...

Adalah-Joint List petition contends Israeli government decrees violate Israeli constitutional law; expanded panel of five justices slated to hear case tomorrow (Thursday) at 11:30 AM.

For first time, court recognizes restrictions on Shin Bet’s powers but grants lengthy period for legislation during which spy agency can act widely without oversight.

Government coalition deal imposing Israeli sovereignty in occupied West Bank is violation of both international and Israeli law; Adalah to attorney general: Clarify that you will act against any...

Israel’s emergency regulations allowed employers to dismiss pregnant women; following Supreme Court hearing on Adalah’s petition, MK Aida Touma-Sliman: We will fix what Israel’s regulations...

Gisha, Adalah, and Al Mezan send urgent appeal to Israeli authorities demanding they immediately reveal information regarding Israel’s response to spread of coronavirus in Gaza.

Israeli gov’t cancelled emergency regulations after Adalah, MK Aida Touma-Sliman went to Supreme Court, but thousands of women lost jobs during 11 days when regulations were in effect.

As we mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day this year, Palestinian prisoners and detainees face the additional threat of a coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Israeli prisons and detention centers.

Employers no longer need special permit from Labor Ministry to put pregnant women or women on maternity leave on unpaid leave; emergency regulations disproportionately violate constitutional...

Israeli health authorities’ failures had put the lives of 150,000 residents of overcrowded and densely-populated Kufr Aqab and Shuafat refugee camp at grave risk; Adalah: These new measures are...