Press Releases

Palestinian Lawyers Declare That They Will Defend all Palestinian Citizens of Israel Detained During the Conflict on a Voluntary Basis On 17 October 2000, Adalah hosted a meeting of 120 Palestinian...

Since Sunday October 1, 2000, thirteen Palestinian citizens of Israel have been killed in clashes with Israeli police in the Arab towns of Umm el Fahem, Jat, Nazareth, Ma’awia, Arrabe,...

October 6th, Adalah hosted an international delegation on a fact finding mission to investigate the widespread violence that erupted in the country in the past week. Adalah’s staff provided...

After waiting nearly a decade to be assigned a position, a Shfaram teacher, Mr. Abdallah Ayoub, was hired this week by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to teach in the elementary school in Shfaram....

At about 10 o'clock this morning, five General Security Service (GSS) and Galilee police officers arrived at Adalah's office in Shfaram with a handwritten court order, signed by the President of...

Every Wednesday at about 19:15, an Adalah representative will have fifteen minutes to speak Adalah’s legal and advocacy work on the Sha’at Hevra Radio program on Reshet Bet station....

On July 24, 2000, Adalah lawyer Marwan Dalal filed a pre-petition to the Attorney General's Office to stop the proposed expansion of the Omer Municipality. Omer is a wealthy Jewish town in the...

Orna Kohn, a lawyer for Adalah, filed an appeal to the District Court of Haifa today requesting that the Court issue a declaratory order against the Municipality of Haifa for its refusal to publish...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court dismissed Adalah’s petition filed in May 1997, on behalf of the Follow-up Committee on Arab Education (FUCAE) and the Coalition of Parents’ Groups in the...

Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) submitted a petition to the Supreme Court today on behalf of the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages, Parents’...

Today, Adalah lawyer Marwan Dalal filed a police brutality complaint to the Ministry of Justice on behalf of Dr. Awad Abu Frih, who was assaulted by a police officer on July 5, 2000. While driving...

Last week, the Ministry of Health and the Attorney General’s Office issued an order permitting three foreign physicians, married to Arab citizens of Israel, to begin their one-year stage...

Today, Adalah lawyer Jamil Dakwar filed a lawsuit on behalf of Mr. Wasim Khouri, to the Labor Court of Haifa, demanding compensation and punitive damages of NIS 50,000 from Amnon Misilot Ltd. for...

In a Supreme Court hearing held today on Adalah’s Motion for Contempt, Chief Justice Aharon Barak, Justice Dahlia Dorner and Justice Tova Strasberg-Cohen ruled that the Ministry of Health...

The Supreme Court held a hearing yesterday on Adalah’s petition concerning the government’s proposed map for Kammaneh, a Palestinian Arab village, located in the Galilee in the north of...

Adalah, in conjunction with the Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA), organized a 3-day training workshop for 24 Palestinian activists from Israel to discuss and analyze religious discourse and...

Mr. Sami Assad from Eksal village, represented by Adalah, committed suicide today in Kishon prison. Mr. Assad and his brother had been detained since 27 April 2000. Adalah’s attorneys had alerted...

On 12 April 2000, the Supreme Court of Israel dismissed Adalah’s petition, filed on behalf of Mr. Mahmoud Mahameed, a 22 year-old Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel, challenging the...

Justice Zamir: “The Ministry of Religious Affairs should act on an equal basis when it allocates money from its budget to satisfy the religious needs of various religious communities.”...

On 8 March 2000, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that the Kaadans, a family of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, could not legally be denied the right to move into the town of Katzir,...