What is Missing in the Financial Aid Plan for the Corona Period
This morning (15.7.2020), we sent the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance our comments regarding a Law Memorandum on the Financial...
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Jul 11, 20204 min read
Knesset Roundup, July 2020
After over a year without a functioning Knesset, ACRI is pleased to bring back the "Knesset Roundup," highlighting legislation and its...
Jul 6, 20202 min read
Enforcement of Mask Wearing
Recently, there has been an outpouring of videos documenting violent arrests of people not wearing masks. This happens when a citizen...
Jun 27, 20205 min read
Human Rights in the Knesset, June 2020
ACRI’s positions on issues pertaining to human rights on the Knesset’s agenda. Municipal inspectors’ authority; prisoner incarceration...
Jun 24, 20201 min read
COVID-19: Women's Rights
Joined in a letter initiated by the Women’s Caucus to the Director of the National Insurance Institute to request they allow maternity...
Jun 23, 20203 min read
Rights & COVID-19: Social Welfare
Basic services and shelter: Successfully appealed to the Energy Minister and the Israel Electricity Authority to cease the practice of...
Jun 21, 20205 min read
The Coronavirus Law Does Not Solve Problems of Emergency Regulations
On 4.6.2020, we sent comments to the Prime Minister’s Office’s Legal Advisor on a memorandum that authorized the government to enact...
May 25, 20202 min read
ACRI: Police Don’t Have Authority to Oversee Quarantine
On 1.5.2020 ACRI appealed to the Deputy Attorney General (Criminal) requesting that she instruct the police that they do not have the...
May 9, 20201 min read
Rights & COVID-19: the Elderly
Successfully appealed to the Construction and Housing Ministry demanding an easing in bureaucracy and a grace period for vulnerable...
May 6, 20202 min read
Rights & COVID-19: Education
Education for all: Contacted the Education and Social Welfare Departments in Lod following the request we received from a family with...
May 6, 20203 min read
COVID-19: East Jerusalem & OPT
East Jerusalem Access to information and health services: Following publications regarding the lack of Corona testing in Arab...
May 5, 20201 min read
Coronavirus Tracking and the Right to Privacy
As the Knesset extends the Shin Bet's Coronavirus tracking program, Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) Foreign Press Officer...
May 5, 20202 min read
Success: Petition to Provide Palestinian Workers Health Insurance
On (28/4/20), a petition was filed by a number of organizations – The Worker’s Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, the Association for...
May 4, 20202 min read
Want to Work in Israel? Give up Access to Your Phone
During the COVID-19 period, West Bank Palestinians working in Israel are not allowed to return to their homes, forced to leave their...
May 4, 20202 min read
Rights & COVID-19: Arab Minority
Translating into Arabic: Successfully demanded that the National Employment Bureau translate unemployment benefit forms into Arabic;...
May 3, 20202 min read
Make Online Learning Accessible for All Israel’s Students
On 29.3.020, ACRI appealed to the Ministry of Education along with Haifa University’s Law and Education Policy Clinic, demanding that the...
Apr 26, 20204 min read
We Won: HCJ Sides with ACRI Petition Against Shin Bet Tracking Civilians
The measures first taken to give the Shin Bet authority to technologically track those known to be infected with COVID-19, as well as...
Apr 25, 20203 min read
Rights & COVID-19: Privacy
Use of Technological Means to Track the Movements of COVID-19 Patients: ACRI petitioned the HCJ against emergency regulations allowing...
Apr 18, 20202 min read
Rights & COVID-19: Protest
As a protest formed outside of the Knesset during the HCJ hearings, police stopped protesters without explanation. We wrote a letter to...
Apr 15, 20201 min read
Knesset Shouldn't Authorize Police to Use Location Data
Today (16.4.2020) we urgently appealed to Knesset members before the temporary Foreign Affairs and Security Committee plenum discussion...
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