Legal Work

For a full list of pending legal cases that ACRI is involved in, click here.

  • High Court Overturns Law Granting Unequal Tax Benefits to Residential Communities

    High Court Overturns Law Granting Unequal Tax Benefits to Residential Communities

    May 22, 2012

    The High Court of Justice accepted today (22 May 2012) some of the petitions filed by local councils, ACRI, and … Read more

  • Order Nisi regarding Representation of Women and Arabs in the Israel Lands Administration

    Order Nisi regarding Representation of Women and Arabs in the Israel Lands Administration

    May 22, 2012

    The High Court orders the State to explain why the ILA should not appoint permanent Arab and women members.   … Read more

  • Supreme Court Rejects Petition to End Continual State of Emergency

    Supreme Court Rejects Petition to End Continual State of Emergency

    May 8, 2012

    The court announced its decision thirteen years after the petition was filed.   Today (8 May 2012), the Supreme Court … Read more

  • Haifa Court Authorizes Discriminatory Housing Ads

    Haifa Court Authorizes Discriminatory Housing Ads

    April 23, 2012

    The Haifa District Court rejected a petition, filed by ACRI and others, regarding discrimination in housing in the mixed Arab-Jewish … Read more

  • “Attempting to Distinguish Settlements from Outposts Creates a False Distinction”

    “Attempting to Distinguish Settlements from Outposts Creates a False Distinction”

    April 22, 2012

    Attorney Tamar Feldman, Director of ACRI’s Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Department, sent a letter on Thursday (19.4.12) to … Read more

  • “Investigate Police Conduct in Land Day Events in East Jerusalem”

    “Investigate Police Conduct in Land Day Events in East Jerusalem”

    April 5, 2012

    Eyewitness testimonies received by ACRI raise strong suspicions that police misconduct occurred during Land Day events in East Jerusalem (30 … Read more

  • Supreme Court: Prisoners Should Have Access to Books

    Supreme Court: Prisoners Should Have Access to Books

    April 2, 2012

    In a ruling today (2 April 2012) by the retiring Supreme Court President, Justice Dorit Beinisch, the court ordered the … Read more

  • Prawer Plan Promotes Racial Discrimination and Violates Rights of the Negev Bedouin

    Prawer Plan Promotes Racial Discrimination and Violates Rights of the Negev Bedouin

    April 1, 2012

    Today (1 April 2012),  human rights organizations Adalah and Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) formally submitted their reservations … Read more

  • NGOs Petitioned – and the Collective Deportation of South Sudanese Is Suspended

    NGOs Petitioned – and the Collective Deportation of South Sudanese Is Suspended

    March 29, 2012

    Ruling on a petition filed this morning by several human rights organizations, Jerusalem District Court Judge Yigal Marzel issued a … Read more

  • ACRI Files Additional Response in Racial Profiling Petition

    ACRI Files Additional Response in Racial Profiling Petition

    March 25, 2012

    Today (25 March 2012), ACRI filed its response to the State’s response in the petition against racial profiling in Israeli … Read more