COVID-19

Following a petition by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel to the Israeli Supreme Court, the Ministry of Health agreed to issue the COVID-19 “Green Pass”...

On 18 August 2021, Adalah published “The Israeli Supreme Court and the COVID-19 Emergency”, a comprehensive report that analyzes Court decisions in 88 cases brought during the first...

Adalah takes urgent legal action in response to new measures enforced in three cities, and as new checkpoints and barriers are erected; Mayors and city councils explicitly proclaim that they aim to...

World Justice Project awards Adalah with the Fundamental Rights and Non-Discrimination prize for its legal action before Israeli courts and state authorities to obtain remedies for COVID-19 related...

Up-to-the-minute updates on Adalah's legal work defending human rights as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic.

However, following petition of human rights organizations, the Israel Prison Service will grant them a one-time holiday phone call.

Israel's economic sidelining of Arab aid groups – which receive just 0.1% of key food aid grant – deepens socio-economic gaps and impoverishment of Palestinian Arab society in Israel.

NGOs: 'Law establishes undemocratic norms'; court rules that ban on participation in protests further than 1,000 meters from one's residence violates freedom of expression, does not pass...

COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates in West Bank and Gaza are increasing dramatically but vaccine supply to Palestinians so far covers less than 1.5% of population. NGOs: 'Israel has a legal,...

Magen David Adom’s website provides the public with essential public health information relating to the COVID-19 virus – but none of it is in Arabic.

Health Ministry issuing certificates of vaccination and COVID-19 recovery in Hebrew and English only, in violation of Supreme Court ruling and ministry guidelines.

Adalah demands repeal of amendment allowing health minister to report identities of people who have not yet been vaccinated or received second shot to local and national authorities.

Interior Ministry revises policy that excluded at-risk populations – notably Bedouin citizens from unrecognized Naqab (Negev) villages – from receiving COVID-19 food security grants.

150,000 Palestinian residents of Kufr Aqab and Shu'afat refugee camp live under Israeli rule, but Israel has not established even a single vaccination center in these East Jerusalem neighborhoods.

Court accepts state's claim that delays in enacting ordinary legislation were result of exceptional circumstances of global epidemic and political instability; court refuses to cancel fines issued...

According to professional sources, prisoners are an at-risk population and action must be taken to vaccinate them in parallel with the at-risk populations at large.

Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana issues directive preventing Palestinians detained by Israel from receiving vaccinations, in violation of mandatory Health Ministry guidelines.

Article 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention specifies that an occupier must ensure 'the adoption and application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of...

Israeli Health Ministry report: Do not allow any staff or student activity in the school until sanitation issue is resolved.

Adalah demands Israeli interior minister cancel policy that excludes Bedouin citizens living in unrecognized villages from receiving emergency COVID-19 food stamps.