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ACRI in the Media
The Medialine
September 2023
“You cannot have a democracy without privacy; this is a basic condition,” attorney Gil Gan-Mor told The Media Line. According to Gan-Mor, the unit director of Civil and Social Rights, Human Rights in the Digital Age Project at the ACRI, this bill is “dangerously extreme” and is leading Israel to become a “surveillance society.”
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JewishCurrents
September 2023
Tamara Newman, ACRI's Director of International Relations speaks on Israel's treatment of the Eritrean community: "Israeli police responded like they do in the West Bank [by] using live fire on a population that has little to no rights and is an oppressed population.”
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BBC News
September 2023
ACRI's Executive Director, Noa Sattath, shares her insights with BBC News on how the Judicial Overhaul is impacting Israel's already vulnerable democratic institutions.
Financial Times
September 2023
“It’s a historic day,” said Noa Sattath, head of ACRI, one of the groups that challenged the law. “This is the first opportunity to more closely understand the court’s response to the overhaul. The hearing is important in its own terms. But its importance is heightened because [the law] is the first step in a larger plan.”
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ABC News
September 2023
This government has already expressed a desire to fire officials like the attorney general and replace them with yes-men that will do whatever the government wants. And the reasonability bill presumably takes away our power to challenge that,” said Noa Sattath, Executive Director of ACRI.
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The Guardian
September 2023
“We are already in a constitutional crisis: government ministers have made no secret of their intentions to remove gatekeepers such as the attorney general and instead nominate people who will protect them,” said Noa Sattath, the Executive Director of ACRI.
Protesters gather outside the supreme court in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The Medialine
September 2023
“It’s one of the longest hearings I’ve ever been in,” says Gil Gan-Mor, director of the Civil Rights Unit at ACRI, speaking to The Media Line during a session break. Gan-Mor adds that 38 human rights organizations have gathered, seeking to have the court hear their claim that “this law will lead to a serious violation of human rights.”
Attorney Gil Gan-Mor, Supreme Court Hearing
The Washington Post
September 2023
Noa Sattath, ACRI's Executive Director was featured in an article regarding the Judicial Overhaul: “The implication of the ruling was that it was never used to justify discrimination, and ultimately the damage was minimized.”
The justices' bench in the Supreme Court of Israel. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)
The Times of Israel
September 2023
Following ACRI's petition to the High Court Israel Railway's announces it will no longer bar passengers wearing protest symbols.
Credit: Time of Israel- File: Protesters against the government's judicial overhaul rally at Tel Aviv's Hashalom train station, July 18, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
+972 Magazine
July 2023
Attorney Roni Pelli, from ACRI's Occupied Palestinian Territories Unit, authored an article about Smotrich's unveiling of his annexation plan.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a discussion and vote on the state budget in the Knesset assembly hall, Jerusalem, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Haaretz
October 2022
ACRI's Executive Director, Noa Sattath, engages in an interview with Haaretz, where she reflects on her transformation from Orthodoxy to her role as a Reform Rabbi and human rights advocate, elucidating the challenges she encountered throughout her journey.
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