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On 15 August 2007, the Beer el-Sabe Magistrates' Court ordered the freezing of demolition orders issued in December 2006 against almost all of the houses belonging to Arab Bedouin families living...

On 5 August 2007 Adalah filed 45 motions to the Beer el-Sabe Magistrates' Court to cancel demolition orders issued by the court in December 2006 to demolish almost all of the houses that belong to...

Volume 39, August 2007 www.adalah.org Education Rights Adalah, The Association for the Development of Arab Education and 33 Arab Families Petition Supreme Court to Establish First Arab School for...

On 18 July 2007, Adalah filed an appeal to the Attorney General (AG) against the decision of the Ministry of Justice's Police Investigations Unit (�Mahash�) to close the file of a police...

On 18 July 2007, a racist bill entitled the �Jewish National Fund Law�, submitted by MK Uri Ariel (National Unity/National Religious Party), passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset...

On 9 July 2007, Adalah filed a second petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding that the Karni Crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip � which has essentially been closed for five...

On 7 July 2007, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on two petitions, one filed by Attorney Hassan Jabareen, the General Director of Adalah, and the other filed by Attorney Awnie Bana from...

On 29 June 2007, Adalah sent a letter to Attorney General (AG) Menachem Mazuz and the Director of the Israel Land Administration (ILA), Yaakov Efrati, demanding that the AG open an immediate...

Volume 38, July 2007 www.adalah.org Jewish National Fund Knesset Approves Bill on Preliminary Reading to Restrict Jewish National Fund Lands Exclusively to Jewish Citizens • The bill •...

On 18 June 2007, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a decision on a petition filed by Adalah, requesting that the Court order the Chief Military Prosecutor to indict soldiers responsible for...

On 17 June 2007, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on a motion filed by the state to extend the deadline for its implementation of the court's landmark ruling that the division of the...

On 24 June 2007 Adalah filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding that it issue an order for the immediate reopening of Karni Crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip in order to...

On 14 June 2007, Adalah sent a pre-petition to the Attorney General's (AG) Office on behalf of the parents' association of the Akbara School in Safad, demanding that the Ministry of Education's...

Adalah: The Attorney General Office's response is unprofessional and indicative not only of a lack of understanding of the essence of human rights, but it also exploits human rights within the...

On 31 May 2007, Adalah petitioned the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of two Arab families against the Interior Ministry and the Attorney General (AG), demanding the cancellation of the...

Volume 37, June 2007 www.adalah.org Supreme Court Hears Adalah’s Petition Demanding Immediate Reopening of Karni Crossing; Court Accepts State’s Argument of No Humanitarian Crisis in...

Adalah: The Nazareth District Court's decision to uphold the Finance Minister's order from 1953 to confiscate the 200 dunams of land at issue is dangerous as it legitimizes the illegal seizure of...

On 27 May 2007, Adalah filed its concluding arguments to the Supreme Court of Israel against the appeal by Haifa University regarding its use of the military service criterion to allocate student...

On 18 May 2007, the United Nations' Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) rejected the application of the Jewish National Fund (JNF)-USA for consultative status with the UN Economic...

On 20 May 2007, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz responded to a letter sent by Adalah on 22 March 2007 demanding the initiation of a criminal investigation into the General Security Services' (GSS)...