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The Court deferred to the police two days before the elections, although the Likud and Religious Zionism plan to deploy 2,000 potentially armed observers to polling stations in Arab communities

Likud and Religious Zionism parties plan to deploy 2,000 observers to polling stations in Arab communities, and a police directive allows them to carry firearms inside

More Than 20 Civil Society Organizations Condemn Mass Home Demolitions in the Naqab and Warn of a New Wave of Demolitions Ahead of the Elections

During yesterday’s hearing before a nine-justice panel, Supreme Court President Isaac Amit announced that a majority of justices supported approving the disqualification of...

Following hearings yesterday, 1 October, before an expanded nine-justice panel, the Supreme Court today unanimously overturned the Central Elections Committee’s disqualification of the Joint...

In advance of the hearings, Adalah to Supreme Court: Disqualifications of all Arab political party lists, MK Ofer Cassif and former MK Sami Abu Shehadeh is unfounded and discriminatory.

Today, 23 September 2026, after a full day of hearings, Israel's Central Elections Committee (CEC) voted to disqualify the following lists and individuals from running in the 27 October 2026...

On 15 September 2026, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel drafted two letters addressing the establishment of an illegal settler outpost on land in Majd al-Krum, an...

Today, 18 September 2026, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, submitted to the Central Elections Committee (CEC) its responses on behalf the United Arab List...

Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel publishes a new report today examining the discriminatory disciplinary policies pursued since 7 October 2023 by Israeli...

Following a hearing before the Israeli Supreme Court on 3 August 2026 on a petition challenging Israel's anti-UNRWA laws designed to dismantle the agency , Adalah – The Legal Center for...

In an appeal filed by Adalah, the family of Khaled Hassan Qara’an, killed alongside another man in a police shooting, reveals how officers denied medical aid, dumped his body in a cell overnight,...

On 30 July 2026, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel appealed to the State Attorney’s Office Appeals Department against the decision refusing to open criminal...

Today, 3 August 2026, the Israeli Supreme Court concluded its hearing on a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of 10 Palestinian refugee families and the NGO Gisha, challenging the constitutionality...

On 20 July 2026, the Nazareth Magistrates’ Court sentenced Palestinian religious and community leader Sheikh Kamal Khatib following his conviction on charges of incitement to violence and...

On 23 June 2026, police arrested Mohammad Barakeh, a former MK and former head of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, at his home and took him to the police station in the...

On 1 June 2026, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel submitted a complaint to the Israeli Attorney General, the Israel Prison Service’'s Legal Advisor, the...