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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,...

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P., a prominent US-based law firm, recently approved the request of Brad Rubin, an Associate with the firm’s Washington DC office and a former legal intern...

On 13 March 2000, the faculty and administration of American University’s Washington College of Law (WCL), at the unanimous recommendation of the Pro Bono and Public Interest Committee,...

Today, Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel filed a petition to the Supreme Court against Mr. Moshe Ya'alon, IDF Chief Commander of the Central Division, challenging his...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an injunction banning the demolition of a mosque in the unrecognized Arab village of Husseniya. Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in...

On 24 January 2000, Adalah received a letter from Israel's Attorney General, Elyakim Rubinstein, endorsing the results of an internal police review concerning the violent clashes between police and...

On 24 February 2000, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an order nisi in Adalah's case against the Ministry of Religious Affairs, the Ministry of Housing and the Ministry of Interior concerning the...

The Supreme Court today issued an order nisi in Adalah's case against the mixed municipalities of Akko, Haifa, Nazareth Illit, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and Ramle-Lod. Adalah's petition demands that these...

At a hearing on 15 February 2000 the Supreme Court issued an order nisi in Adalah’s case concerning the provision of welfare services to the unrecognized villages in the Negev. The 60,000...

On 19 January 2000, Ma'houd Mahameed, a Palestinian citizen of Israel from the Triangle town of Umm El Fahem, received an order from the Army Commander of the West Bank, Moshe Ya'alon, informing...

Today, Adalah Attorney Marwan Dalal, on behalf of the Committee of Arab Municipalities, three Palestinian Arab NGOs, and individuals, filed a petition against the Prime Minister and the Minister of...

The Supreme Court today awarded Adalah legal fees for its representation of the Parents Committee in Segev Shalom (Shkeb) against the government-appointed Local Council in Segev Shalom and the...

Adalah today filed a motion to the Supreme Court of Israel seeking the imposition of a heavy fine on the Minister of Health for his failure to build six Mother & Child clinics in a number of...

Adalah Advocate Marwan Dalal appeared before the Supreme Court of Israel today for a hearing concerning Adalah’s petition against the government-appointed Council in Segev-Shalom and the...