COVID-19 2/3

Jul 14, 20202 min read

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...

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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