Press Releases

On 10 September 2002, Adalah learned from media reports that the Israeli prison authorities ordered the Open University (a correspondence school) to refuse the enrollment of all Palestinian...

On 5 September 2002, Adalah sent a letter to Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein demanding that the recently reconvened Demography Council be denied government funding or support, and that a total...

Yesterday, Minister of Interior Eli Yishai signed a special decree officially revoking the citizenship of Mr. Nihad Abu Kishik, an Arab citizen of Israel. This unprecedented decision makes Mr. Abu...

The official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 protest demonstrations ("Commission") concluded its public hearings on 21 August 2002 with the testimony of former Prime Minister Ehud...

On 26 August 2002, Adalah filed a petition to the Supreme Court in its own name and on behalf of the Association for Support and Defense of Bedouin Rights in Israel, the Islamic Committee in the...

On 26 August 2002, Adalah submitted 12 individual petitions to the Supreme Court on the Israeli government's interim policy canceling all pending family unifications if the non-citizen spouse is...

Today, Supreme Court Justice Strassberg-Cohen granted a temporary injunction preventing the Israeli army from using Palestinian civilians as human shields and/or hostages through the army's...

On 6 August 2002, the official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 events (hereafter "the Commission") heard testimony from three academic expert witnesses: Danny Rabinowitz, Professor of...

During yesterday's hearing at the Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 events, Adalah confronted former Minister of Internal Security Shlomo Ben Ami with a document outlining ways in which...

On 7 August 2002, the Director of the Ministry of Interior's Population Bureau sent a letter to Adalah in which he announced the cancellation of an order he had issued preventing Mohammed Kannaneh,...

Yesterday, Adalah sent a letter to Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein seeking the cancellation of a decision by the Registrar of Associations ("Registrar") to appoint an investigator into Adalah's...

Yesterday, Adalah announced that it has learned through media reports of a pending investigation into the organization by the Ministry of the Interior's Registrar of Associations. "These reports...

On 17 July 2002, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel; Al Meezan Association for Human Rights; and in...

On 7 August 2002, Adalah filed a pre-petition to Minister of the Interior Eliyahu Yishai, raising grave concerns about his announcement that he intends to revoke the citizenship of two Palestinian...

On 5 August 2002, the Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by Adalah on 21 July 2002, against the Official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 protest demonstrations (hereafter "the...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a historic 92-page decision on a petition filed in June 1999 by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), against the mixed Arab-Jewish...

At a hearing on 9 July 2002, the Jerusalem Magistrate Court sentenced Mr. Abdel-Menem Abu Saleh to two months of community service for assaulting Police Sergeant Guy Raif at a March 2001 session of...

On 14 July 2002, the Tel Aviv Administrative District Court heard a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of Ms. Nuran Yigit, a representative of the Belgian-based International Cultural Youth...

Protesting the inhumane conditions faced by approximately 500 Palestinian detainees currently held in Ansar III Detention Center. Arguing that the detention conditions in Ansar III violate the...

On 11 June 2002, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by Adalah, seeking to lift the house arrest imposed on Mr. Basil Said, 23, of Kufr Kanna by the Nazareth Magistrate Court. Mr. Said was...