Economic rights

(Haifa, Israel) For the first time, the European Union (EU) has called upon Israel to protect the rights of Arab citizens of Israel. Specifically, the EU urged Israel “to increase efforts to...

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (“the Committee”) issued its "List of Issues" for Israel in December 2010. This list consists of 39 questions concerning Israel's...

On 31 December 2010, the Knesset's Economic Affairs Committee decided to award subsidies to Arab farmers to produce six million eggs annually out of a new quota totaling 26 million eggs for all...

In recent weeks the Israeli National Insurance Institute (NII) has begun to transfer disability payments to 500 beneficiaries from Gaza, after their cancellation at the beginning of 2009. The NII...

(Haifa, Israel) On 19 October 2010, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Israeli Minister of Tourism, the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General to demand that a recently-tabled Knesset bill...

(Haifa, Israel) In response to petitions submitted by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Adalah, the Israeli Supreme Court decided on 15 September 2010 that Amendment 146 to the Income...

On 2 December 2009, Adalah held its annual briefing on legal developments and major Israeli Supreme Court cases concerning Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel for representatives of foreign...

In a written response to a petition filed to the Supreme Court of Israel by Adalah to demand clear and equal criteria for determining the list of towns eligible for quotas and subsidies for...

On 28 April 2008, Adalah petitioned the Supreme Court of Israel demanding the addition of the Arab village of Aramshe in the Upper Galilee to the list of communities eligible for egg production and...

On 29 March 2007, the Israel Land Administration (ILA) published new regulations governing the short-term leasing of agricultural land in the Naqab (Negev) in the south of Israel. These...

National planning in Israel, as articulated and mapped by a range of national master plans, contributes significantly to shaping the country’s character, spaces, economy and environment....

These procedures direct the Selection Committees of small community and agricultural settlements to apply a number of criteria in deciding whether or not to recommend that the ILA accept a...

Any lawyer representing disempowered communities is aware that a great paradox currently exists within the modern legal system. For, whilst the concept of equality before the law has supposedly...

Today, 23 March 2004, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a temporary injunction, as requested by Adalah in a petition filed yesterday, preventing the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), the Ministry...

As part of its ongoing campaign to advocate and promote human rights in general and Arab minority rights in Israel in particular, Adalah published a series of three ads in Ha'aretz (Hebrew Edition)...

This morning, without prior warning, helicopters belonging to the Israel Lands Administration's (ILA) so-called "Green Patrol" sprayed toxic chemicals on more than 1500 dunams (375 acres) of crops...

Adalah Staff Attorney Jamil Dakwar presented written and oral statements to the CESCR Committee in Geneva. Adalah's statement emphasized Israel's violations of ESCR rights of Palestinian citizens...