The Need for an Arab Public School in Upper Nazareth
On October 28, 2019 nine families from Nof HaGalil (Upper Nazareth), along with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the...
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Jan 25, 20213 min read
Landmark Ruling: HCJ Limits Police Authority
On January 25, 2021, the High Court handed down a landmark decision on our petition; the Court has significantly reduced the range of...
Dec 14, 20204 min read
Prohibit Disconnecting Electricity for Impoverished Debtors
Along with the Union of Social Workers, Physicians for Human Rights and ACRI, four people who had been disconnected from their...
Jun 9, 20203 min read
HCJ Repeals Law Expropriating Palestinian Land!
Update as of June 9, 2020: Following ACRI’s petition with Peace Now and Yesh Din from 2017, the Law for the Regularization of Settlement...
Oct 27, 20192 min read
Gender Reassignment Process for Prisoner
On September 25, 2019 a verdict was handed down on the petition overseen by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel regarding a...
Sep 19, 20192 min read
Arabs Taken off Buses at Entrance to Barzilay Hospital
On September 11, 2019 the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. along...
Sep 9, 20192 min read
Sudanese asylum seeker applies for permanent status
Dear friends, Yesterday, the Tel Aviv District Court made a welcome, unprecedented ruling on a case I brought forward on behalf of a...
Sep 5, 20192 min read
Significant Step Towards Equality for Women in Sports
On September 5, 2019 the Be’er Sheva District Court accepted the position put forth by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and...
Aug 22, 20192 min read
The Show Must Go On
The Haifa District Court received an urgent petition this morning (8.22.2019) on behalf of residents of Umm al-Fahm, regarding the mayor...
Aug 19, 20192 min read
Don't give Jewish names to the streets of Silwan
On 18.8.2019, ACRI filed a petition on behalf of 27 residents of Silwan against the Jerusalem City Council and the municipality itself,...
Aug 8, 20192 min read
Disappointing verdict on parental payments
Yesterday (07.08.2019), the HCJ rejected ACRI and Haifa University’s Educational Law and Policy Clinic’s petition regarding annual...
Jul 17, 20192 min read
Enroll children of asylum seekers in schools
On July 9, 2019, 129 asylum seekers and immigrant residents from Petah Tikva, along with ACRI and ASSAF - Aid Organization for Refugees...
Jul 12, 20192 min read
Gender Segregation in Institutions of Higher Education
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC), and the Israel Women's Network have...
Jun 23, 20192 min read
Police officer’s criminal prosecution for hate crime
An ultra-Orthodox resident of Jerusalem petitioned the High Court of Justice today, along with ACRI and the Public Committee Against...
Jun 23, 20191 min read
Prosecute officer who attacked ultra-Orthodox man
On June 23, 2010, ACRI petitioned the High Court of Justice along with a Haredi resident of Jerusalem and the Public Committee Against...
Jun 19, 20193 min read
A ray of light for academic freedom of expression
Tel Aviv University is not entitled to demand that students pay for security as a condition for approving a "demonstration, assembly, or...
Jun 18, 20192 min read
Success: matriculation exams in Arabic
Today (June 18th 2019), the High Court of Justice ordered the translation of matriculation exams into Arabic. The decision was made...
Jun 11, 20192 min read
Eviction of Gallery from Municipal Building
ACRI represented Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem in an appeal against the intention to remove it from the structure in which it operates due...
May 16, 20192 min read
Stop Expelling Palestinians During Ramadan
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) petitioned the High Court of Justice today (Thursday) on behalf of Walid and Yasser Abu...
May 13, 20192 min read
Almost 4,000 approved firearm licenses in 8 months
Over the past eight months, since the policy for granting a firearm license was amended, 6,000 applications have been submitted by...
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