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Newsletter issue 103, April 2013
Workers' Rights

One of the biggest obstacles to Palestinian citizens of Israel seeking employment in Israeli workplaces, especially in senior positions, is the requirement that candidates have performed military service. This month, on International Workers’ Day, Adalah demands that Naftali Bennett, the Minister of Economy and Labor, cancel military service as a prerequisite for working in high-tech companies, as he has already done for ultra-Orthodox Jews. Adalah also called on the Israeli Airports Authority to scrap the military service requirement for baggage handlers. In both cases, Adalah argued, military service is irrelevant and discriminatory.
Palestinian Prisoners' Day
Adalah is issuing a briefing paper on discrimination between Palestinian and Jewish “security” prisoners, including an eye-opening comparison of prison conditions, sentencing periods, and parole review. Official statistics obtained by Adalah show that as of April 2013 there are over 4,800 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons, including 14 women, and 235 minors.
On 29 April, the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee approved a Temporary Order that allows the Shin Bet to hold Palestinian detainees for 96 hours before seeing a judge. The exemption will become permanent if the discriminatory Bill to Fight Terrorism is passed, one of over 60 discriminatory laws and bills in Adalah's Discriminatory Laws Database.
Fighting Forced Displacement of Palestinians
Adalah and ACRI wrote to the Prime Minister and the Ministerial Committee on Legislation urging the government to reject the proposed Prawer-Begin Law. The bill threatens the massive confiscation of Arab Bedouin land in the Naqab (Negev) and the displacement of up to 70,000 people from the unrecognized villages.
The government postponed a new vote on the bill following pressure from right-wing ministers and parties who claim it is “too generous”. Watch our video about the Prawer Plan!

Adalah also objected to a new “national park” in East Jerusalem designed to block the expansion of two Palestinian neighborhoods.
Staff Honors
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This month, Adalah’s General Director Attorney Hassan Jabareen was featured in a new book by photographer Mariana Cook, “Justice: Faces of the Human Rights Revolution”, alongside 98 other leading human rights defenders. Alongside his portrait, Jabareen wrote an essay about what motivates him to fight for human rights.
Adalah also congratulates Attorney Sawsan Zaher, who was named a 2013 Yale World Fellow in recognition of her human rights work on behalf of Palestinian citizens of Israel. The YWF program is Yale University’s signature global leadership development initiative.
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