General Security Services – GSS or Shabak

The metaphor of the Gaza Strip as the world’s largest prison is unfortunately outdated. Israel now treats the Strip more like a zoo. For running a prison is about constraining or repressing...

Tel Aviv District Court, Lawsuit 185/08 The Arab Students' Committee of Tel Aviv University, et. al. v. Tel Aviv University

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)...

On 27 March 2006, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of literary critic, translator and journalist Antwan Shalhat against the Interior Minister's...

On 22 June 2005, the Attorney General (AG) announced to Israel's Supreme Court the cancellation of a policy by which a General Security Services (GSS) representative serves as the deputy director...

On 17 March 2005, Adalah wrote an urgent letter to the Israeli Transport Minister, Meir Sheetrit, urging him to cancel a new amendment to the Traffic Regulations - 1961, which authorizes the...

In a response submitted to the Supreme Court of Israel on 3 November 2004, Adalah argued that, by advocating the retention of a General Security Service (GSS) post in the Ministry of Education...

On 6 September 2004, Adalah submitted a petition, motion for injunction, and request for an urgent hearing to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of the Union of Parents of Arab Students in...

Yesterday, 12 May 2004, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General demanding that he issue an order requiring the General Security Services (GSS) to record all interrogations of suspects,...

Today, 4 March 2004, the gag order placed on the month-long detention of four members of the extra-parliamentary political movement, Abna al-Balad, was lifted. Mr. Mohammed Kannaneh, the General...

On 19 December 2002, in an unprecedented move, Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein submitted a motion to the Central Elections Committee (CEC) asking to disqualify the National Democratic Assembly...

On 17 July 2002, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel; Al Meezan Association for Human Rights; and in...

On Monday, 10 June 2002, the Supreme Court began hearing a petition challenging the travel restrictions imposed on Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Adalah filed the...

Today, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court asking for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Jamal Mustafa Khueil, a resident of Jenin refugee camp who was detained by the Israeli army...

On 24 January 2002, Adalah filed a motion to the official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 protest demonstrations (“the Commission”) on behalf of the families of 13 Palestinian...

At about 10 o'clock this morning, five General Security Service (GSS) and Galilee police officers arrived at Adalah's office in Shfaram with a handwritten court order, signed by the President of...

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...

In our opinion, these recommendations are completely unacceptable. Even their partial implementation would violate and erode the basic civil rights of many of the Arab citizens of Israel, and...