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In The Knesset
ACRI’s policy advocacy department is dedicated to monitoring and advising on proposed bills in the Knesset to ensure the civil and political rights of all individuals are equally considered and protected. ACRI works to reduce infringements of human rights in bills and government policies, while initiating and supporting legislation that protects civil liberties and freedoms. ACRI’s work in the Knesset puts human rights issues on the public agenda and keeps decision makers informed via professional position papers and participation in Knesset committee discussions and related public forums.


A Return to War
March 21, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's Newsletter Photo: Rachel Druck Dear friend, I just returned from a weeklong trip to the United States,...
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The Judicial Selection Committee: Q&A
Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-Stok On March 19, 2025, the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee approved the proposal to change...
6 days ago7 min read


Remove Movement Restrictions Imposed on Hebron's Palestinian Residents
© Maksym Voitenko | Dreamstime.com Since the beginning of the war, major movement restrictions have been imposed on Palestinian residents...
Mar 191 min read


The Shin Bet: Questions and Answers
Photos: Amos Ben Gershom, National Photo Collection; Yossi Zamir, Shatil-Stok The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) is a covert...
Mar 186 min read


Human Rights and Protecting the Hostages
March 13, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's Newsletter A demonstration to free the hostages. Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-Stok Dear friend, The...
Mar 133 min read

Include Contraceptives Among Funded Medications
© Jean Paul Chassenet | Dreamstime.com "Forum 21 - Protecting Your Right to Choose," a coalition of feminist organizations, human rights...
Mar 123 min read


Firing the Attorney General: A Bad Precedent, Bad Legal Reasoning, and Bad for Democracy
Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-Stok Minister of Justice Yariv Levin began the process to remove the Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara,...
Mar 102 min read


Transparency in the CEO's Committee on Foreign Workers
The Workers' Rights Clinic at Tel Aviv University and Kav LaOved petitioned the Supreme Court on July 17, 2024 on behalf of Kav LaOved,...
Mar 92 min read


Academics have the Right to Freedom of Expression
Photo: Tal Dahan, ACRI Dr. Sebastian Ben Daniel was suspended from his position at Ben Gurion University due to social media posts he...
Mar 52 min read


Police Deploy 'Hawk Eye' System for Tracking Drivers
First Petition On January 28, 2021, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Privacy Israel filed a petition with the High...
Mar 44 min read


Reminder to the Minister of Culture: You Cannot "Request" that a Film not be Screened
Watch No Other Land (Hebrew subtitles) Following No Other Land’s Oscar win at the Academy Awards for Best Documentary, the Minister of...
Mar 31 min read


Allow Residents of the Northern West Bank to Return to their Homes
Soldiers in Jenin, January 2025. Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit, (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia In January 2025, the army launched a military...
Mar 22 min read


A Hollow Democracy
February 27, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Dear friend, There are many pressing issues that we are currently facing. And yet, in...
Feb 273 min read


Raid on East Jerusalem Bookstore and the Arrest of its Owners
Educational Bookshop after the Police Raid. Photo: Nir Hasson The Educational Bookshop is a not just a bookstore in East Jerusalem. It is...
Feb 242 min read


Reducing Inequalities in Health Care
© Verbaska | Dreamstime.com The Adva Center, Physicians for Human Rights, and the Association for Civil Rights in...
Feb 222 min read


Children in Bir Al-Hamam Have the Right to an Education
The village of Bir Al-Hamam has a kindergarten that has been operating for twenty years, enrolling about 30 children ages 3-5 every year....
Feb 202 min read


Helping the Homeless, Elderly, and Underprivileged during Winter Storm Coral
© Msmartchief | Dreamstime.com Winter storm Coral is headed to Israel, bringing with it extreme cold and weather conditions that the...
Feb 191 min read


Appoint Members to the Committee for Sharia Law Examinations
© Yurii Kibalnik | Dreamstime.com In order to be certified to represent clients in Sharia courts, individuals with legal education or...
Feb 182 min read


You are Not Going Crazy
February 13, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's Newsletter Photo: © Alejandro Bernal | Dreamstime.com Dear friend, To say it has been chaotic...
Feb 142 min read


Transparency in Imposition of Movement Restrictions
Yossi Zamir, Shatil-Stok The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Physicians for Human Rights, Yesh Din, B'Tselem, and HaMoked Center...
Feb 132 min read


Repeal the Protection of the Public from Criminal Organizations Law
© Andrei Dodonov | Dreamstime.com The Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitioned the High Court of Justice on February 12, 2025,...
Feb 122 min read


Against the Proposed Law Allowing for Private Land Purchases in the West Bank
© Rrodrickbeiler | Dreamstime.com Currently, under the laws of occupation, the military commander is obligated to follow Jordanian law...
Feb 111 min read


Trump's Horrifying Plan: Transfer and Ethnic Cleansing
Destruction in Gaza. Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-Stok At a press conference with the U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime...
Feb 61 min read


We Won't Shut Up
Photo credit: Tomer Applebaum, Haaretz February 3, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's Newsletter Dear friend, I have never been one to sugercoat...
Feb 33 min read


Ignored Appeals from Evacuated Residents of Sderot
Photo: Gali Bessido, Shatil-Stok On February 2, 2025, the Association for Civil Rights submitted a petition on behalf of four residents...
Feb 21 min read


The Duty to Protect Palestinians in the West Bank against Violence by Israelis and to bring the Perpetrators to Justice
© Rrodrickbeiler | Dreamstime.com . Illustrative On January 19, 2025, with the ceasefire taking effect and the implementation of the...
Jan 212 min read


The New Proposal for the Committee for the Selection of Judges will also Weaken the Separation of Powers and the Independence of Judges
Yossi Zamir, Shatil-Stock This week, the Knesset’s Constitution Committee approved resuming discussions on the proposal to change the...
Jan 201 min read


Increased Enforcement of Weapons Crimes: Problematic Amendments
@ Chernetskaya | Dreamstime.com On January 19, 2025, ACRI sent comments to the Ministry of Justice regarding the Weapons Offenses...
Jan 192 min read


Police: Detainees May not be Blindfolded, Except in Extreme Cases
© Pressmaster | Dreamstime.com Following a Freedom of Information request submitted by ACRI to the police, the police sent the directive...
Jan 161 min read


Politics and Policing: Serving Society, Not Ministers
January 16, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's Newsletter Dear friend, After fifteen months of this horrifying war, a ceasefire and hostage deal...
Jan 163 min read


Lack of Protection in Unrecognized Villages
On August 29, 2024, residents of unrecognized Bedouin villages, alongside the Council of Unrecognized Villages and human rights...
Jan 152 min read


Impose Steep Penalties on SLAPP Suit Plaintiffs
On January 14, 2025, the Association for Civil Rights submitted a request to join an appeal as an "amicus curiae" (“friend of the court”)...
Jan 142 min read


Blindfolding Security Prisoners in Public Areas in Prisons
Illustrative. Photo created using AI On December 31, 2024, ACRI approached the Prison Service Commissioner and the Government's Legal...
Jan 131 min read


Release the Public Defender's Inspection Reports on Prison Conditions
On January 6, 2025, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel filed a Freedom of Information petition demanding the disclosure of...
Jan 61 min read


More Weapons in Civilian Hands Means More Danger to Children
Between 2020-2023, there has been a significant increase in gun violence affecting children in Israel, particularly the Arab population....
Jan 52 min read


Reopen the National Insurance Branch at the Qalandiya Crossing
© Gabriela Catz | Dreamstime.com The National Insurance Institute branch at the Qalandiya crossing, which provided services to the tens...
Jan 51 min read


Amendment to the Police Ordinance: Powers of the Minister of National Security ("Ben Gvir Law")
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, together with the Public Committee Against Torture and the Movement for Quality Government,...
Jan 35 min read


Driver's Licenses for Asylum Seekers
On December 31, 2024, we petitioned the Supreme Court, together with five asylum seekers and the organizations HIAS, ASSAF, and the...
Dec 31, 20241 min read


Illegal Prison Conditions at Anatot Detention Center
Savconstantine, Dreamstime.com On December 16, 2024, the Association for Civil Rights appealed to the Chief Military Prosecutor,...
Dec 25, 20242 min read


Revoke "Humanitarian Procedure" Amendments
© Meryll | Dreamstime.com The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, together with the Legal Aid Center for Olim of the Israel...
Dec 24, 20241 min read


Use of Mounted Police in Protests
In September 2023, the police modified and expanded their procedures regarding the use of mounted police at demonstrations. The revised...
Dec 18, 20241 min read


Don’t Turn the Municipal Policing Pilot Program Into a Permanent Arrangement
Photo by Tal Dahan, ACRI In August of 2011, the Knesset passed the “Municipal Policing Law,” in which municipal inspectors were granted...
Dec 16, 20243 min read


The Subversive Message
December 10, 2024 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter 76 years ago today, the United Nations General Assembly declared that every human being...
Dec 10, 20242 min read


A Proposed Law to Restructure the Police Internal Affairs Bureau (Machash)
A proposed law has been brought to the Knesset’s Constitution Committee to reform the Israeli police’s Internal Affairs Bureau (Machash)....
Dec 9, 20242 min read


Registration of Stateless Children in Educational Institutions in Beer Sheva
Israeli law, as well as the policies laid out by the Ministry of Education, states that every child starting from the age of three has...
Dec 9, 20243 min read


Issuing Identity Cards to Israeli Women Evacuated from Gaza
In early December 2024, the Association for Civil Rights submitted several petitions regarding the Population and Immigration Authority's...
Dec 5, 20242 min read


Political Interference and Freedom of the Press Violations against the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation
Tal Dahan, ACRI The Knesset's Economic Committee is currently discussing several proposed laws against the Public Broadcasting...
Dec 2, 20242 min read


Equal Exam Accommodations for All Evacuated Kiryat Shmona Students
On November 28, 2024, we approached the Minister of Education and senior ministry officials with the demand (Heb) that they extend the...
Dec 1, 20241 min read


The New Policy for the Use of Stun Grenades Endangers Protesters
On October 31, 2024, the police updated the "Deployment and Use of Stun Grenades" policy. The new version (Heb) allows officers to...
Nov 28, 20242 min read


The Collapse of HMOs’ Home Health Aide Insurance and the State’s Responsibility
Home health care is a vital component of the human right to dignity, life, and health. The State's obligation to equality requires that a...
Nov 27, 20243 min read
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