Excessive and Selective Enforcement against Arabs for Expression Transgressions
The State Attorney's Guideline 14.12 establishes that police must obtain approval from the prosecutor’s office before opening an...
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Nov 72 min read
Deportation of Families of Terrorists: Questions and Answers
On the night of November 7, 2024 the Knesset approved the Deportation of Families of Terrorists Law, 5785-2024. What does the law...
Oct 303 min read
Expanding Disqualification Criteria for Elections: A Threat to Democracy and Minority Representation
The criteria under which a person or party can be disqualified from running in elections are laid out in Section 7A of Basic Law: The...
Aug 152 min read
Using AI in Airport Policing Decisions
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitioned the High Court of Justice on May 23, 2024, requesting that it order the police to...
Jul 212 min read
Administrative orders based on classified material and intelligence assessments are not the way to fight crime
The Knesset is expected to approve the second and third readings of the Protection of the Public from Criminal Organizations Law (on ...
Jul 202 min read
Data on Criminal Cases According to Gender, Nationality & Ethnicity
For years, the police and the Ministry of Justice have refused to provide information on criminal cases according to various parameters...
Jul 92 min read
Repeal the New Citizenship Law
The Association for Civil Rights, the Center for the Protection of the Individual, and Physicians for Human Rights petitioned the High...
Jul 22 min read
Discrimination in Scholarship Eligibility for Arab Students at the University of Haifa
On June 7, 2022, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) filed a lawsuit in the Haifa District Court seeking a declaratory...
Feb 62 min read
Establish Ethical Rules for Real Estate Agents: discrimination will be considered a disciplinary offense
On February 6, 2024, we sent the Ministry of Justice legal correspondence (Hebrew) demanding the establishment of ethics rules and...
Feb 13 min read
Permit Bedouin to Change Their Residences to Reflect Their Tribal Names
Bedouin citizens and residents living in unrecognized villages are entitled to register their residence in accordance with their tribal...
Nov 20, 20232 min read
Our position was accepted: Default interest - an incentive for payment, not a punishment
For years, ACRI and the Clinic for Human Rights at the University of Haifa have argued that the Israeli interest rate mechanism is...
Aug 31, 20231 min read
The Attack on Democracy: Monitoring Initiatives that Damage Human Rights and Democracy
The 25th Knesset and 37th Government: Monitoring Initiatives that Damage Human Rights and Democracy August 2023 Find the full paper here:...
Aug 30, 20231 min read
Making the Employment Services Accessible in Arabic
On February 25, 2021, the Association for Civil Rights filed a petition (Hebrew) with the Supreme Court on behalf of three residents of...
Aug 20, 20232 min read
To Establish a Registry for Marginalized Children
Children and marginalized children - most of them are children of asylum seekers - are born and live in the country without being...
Jul 25, 20232 min read
Fear of Harming the Unit for Coordinating the Fight Against Racism
Recently, the Head of the Unit for Coordinating the Fight against Racism in the Ministry of Justice, Adv. Aveka Zana, received a notice...
May 24, 20232 min read
National Guard under Minister of National Security - Crossing a Red Line
National Guard Under Minister of National Security – Crossing a Red Line On March 28, 2023, we contacted the Attorney General following...
May 24, 20232 min read
Minister of National Security's Directive to Remove Palestinian Flags is Illegal
Following Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir’s sweeping directive to the Israel Police Commissioner this week, regarding...
May 1, 20231 min read
Security under Ben-Gvir: The police, the Shin-Bet and the national guard as forces of oppression?
Photo © doveloupo | Dreamstime.com Ben-Gvir, and his party’s sharp spike in popularity in the September 2022 elections followed a...
Jan 8, 20233 min read
Ben Gurion University Violates Student’s Freedom of Expression
In May of 2022, a rally was held at Ben-Gurion University to mark Nakba Day on behalf of the Hadash party’s student chapter. Opposite the...
Nov 9, 20222 min read
Historic Achievement - 380,000 Households will be Protected From Power Cuts
Following our victory in the High Court and the ruling that stated that the right to electricity is a constitutional right that is...
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