Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent a letter on 4 August 2016 to Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Machluf Deri and Interior Ministry Director General Orna Hozman Bechor demanding that they reject a request from the Harish Local Council to expand its jurisdictional boundaries. The letter, sent by Adalah on…
At the end of July, the Housing Cabinet approved a proposal to establish a new community for the Arab-Bedouin residents of Wadi al-Na’am in the Negev, and to move all village residents to an area south of their present location, adjacent to the Bedouin township of Shaqib al-Salam (Segev Shalom). The Association for Civil Rights in…
To discuss his plans for how Israeli society can better relate to its Arab minority citizens, Joint List chairman, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), recently granted an exclusive interview to The Jerusalem Post. The interview was published on Sunday, July 31, just one day after scores of activists commemorated six years to the destruction of the…
Police arrested nine Arab-Bedouin and Jewish activists in the unrecognized village of Al-Araqib in the Negev on Sunday, July 24, as they attempted to block bulldozers from performing earthworks as part of plans to turn village lands into a Jewish National Fund (JNF) forest. According to Al-Ittihad, the daily Arabic-language newspaper of the Communist Party…
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the mass social protests for affordable housing in Israel, the far-right, neo-liberal coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu rejected on Sunday, July 10, a proposal by Hadash MK Dov Khenin (Joint List) to amend the Basic (constitutional) Law, Human Dignity and Liberty, to include the recognition of housing as…
The Prime Minister’s Office is holding up the transfer of NIS 2.5 billion (shekels; $645 million) to Arab communities in Israel because “the state has still not developed a mechanism to enforce planning and construction laws in these towns,” Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon told the Knesset yesterday, June 13. He was responding to a query…
Hundreds of protesters, Arabs and Jews, marched on Thursday, March 3, in Beer-Sheva, against the government’s plans to demolish two Arab-Bedouin villages and build a new Jewish settlement in their place. Under a government-sponsored plan, the residents of the unrecognized Arab-Bedouin villages of Atir and Umm al-Hiran in Israel’s southern Negev Desert are slated to…
Adalah, the legal center for Arab minority rights in Israel, has reported that the Supreme Court has rejected the organization’s extraordinary motion for a second hearing on the ordered eviction of the residents of the Arab-Bedouin village of Atir-Umm al-Hiran. Adalah had requested that the court reconsider its decision to approve Israel’s plan to evict…
The Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee called Tuesday, December 29, upon the Housing Cabinet to put an end to building plans at Har Harat, saying that these plans will seriously threaten the integrity of the Jerusalem region’s green space. Environmental groups led by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and Green…
On Wednesday, December 23, the Knesset defeated a bill for equality in housing for Arabs, Ethiopians, Mizrahi and LGBTs. The bill proposed that, when selling or renting a property, apartment owners not be allowed to discriminate based of sexual orientation, gender, nationality, race, religion, country of origin, views, political affiliation, personal status, parenthood or disability.…