All four Hadash MKs and leading members of the Communist Party of Israel joined several hundred Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel on Friday, Febuary 8, to protest the impending demolition of 17 homes in the Arab city of Qalansawe in the “Southern Triangle” in the center of the country. A dozen homes have already…
Israel’s Interior Ministry is stalling the process of naming the streets of Umm al-Fahem, one of the largest Palestinian Arab cities in Israel with a population of 60,000 residents. Hadash Knesset Member Yousef Jabareen (Joint List) and Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – sent a letter to Interior Ministry…
The head of the Joint List, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), attacked Israel’s current government at a conference in Nazareth on Wednesday, November 15, for failing to work with the Arab citizens of the state on economic development. “Partnership is the key to the success of the Arab community,” Odeh said at an economic conference held…
Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – is demanding that the Israeli Education Ministry connect schools in an Arab-Bedouin village in the Negev Desert region to the national electrical grid. Adalah has sent a letter on behalf of the Wadi el-Na’am parents’ committee and the local village council, to senior…
The Arad passenger train line that is being proposed for construction will cause significant harm to Arab-Bedouin communities in the Negev desert region in southern Israel. Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights – and Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – filed a joint their objection to the plan in…
The new town that Israel is planning to build in the Negev desert upon the ruins of a Arab-Bedouin village slated for demolition, will only be open to Jews with Israeli citizenship or permanent residence recognized by the state. The new Jewish town of Hiran is due to be constructed once the existing Bedouin community…
Israeli authorities secured by a large contingent of police demolished the Arab-Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev region of southern Israel for the 116th time since 2010 on Tuesday morning, August 1. This was the eighth such demolition of the unrecognized village this year. Officials from the Israel Land Authority (ILA), accompanied by police…
The Knesset commemorated on Tuesday, July 11, Arabic Language Day – an initiative by Hadash MK Dr. Yousef Jabareen of the Joint List – for the second year in a row. That the MK who came up with the idea of dedicating a day to discuss promoting the Arabic language also heads a lobby for…
Police authorities have decided to open an investigation into the circumstances of the wounding of Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, chair of the Joint List, during the shooting incident that took place six months ago in the Arab-Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev. Odeh, filed a complaint with the Department of Police Investigations after…
Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint List, met with top officials of the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Francis on Wednesday, June 28, in the Vatican. The lawmaker told the pope that “It is urgent that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank be ended,” and spoke of the importance of reaching a regional…