© Liujunrong | Dreamstime.com Several times in recent months, the police set up roadblocks on access roads to Arab towns in order to fight crime and weapons smuggling. The roadblocks paralyzed main traffic arteries, made entry and exit to the towns difficult to impossible, disrupted daily life, and violated residents' rights to freedom of movement and human dignity.  In response to these actions, we sent appeals to the Attorney General, the Police Commissioner, and the Legal

Illustrative. Photo: © Igor Terekhov | Dreamstime.com On January 25, 2026, an inspector from the Negev Water Corporation disconnected the water supply to three unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev, after discovering damage caused by vandalism to the infrastructure of the water cabinet. As a result, approximately 150 families, including children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, were left without water. When the water supply was not restored after four days, w

February 4, 2026 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Demonstrating against the government's indifference to crime in Arab society. Photo: Oded Feller, ACRI This past weekend in Tel Aviv and around the country Arabs and Jews demonstrated in massive numbers against the unchecked crime wave raging in Arab society. This was a moving show of bravery on the part of Arab society, which has faced escalating attempts at marginalization and silencing since the outbreak of the war, and solid

Photos: Abeer Joubran, ACRI On February 1, 2026, ACRI petitioned the Supreme Court on behalf of four residents of the city of Lod, demanding the removal of concrete roadblocks placed by the police in two of the city's neighborhoods that are home to hundreds of Arab residents. In one neighborhood, the concrete barrier has completely sealed off the area; there is no other way to enter or exit. In the other neighborhood, the alternative road passes through an industrial area tha

Garbage in an East Jerusalem neighborhood beyond the separation barrier, February 2026 On November 13, 2025, ACRI contacted the Director General of the Jerusalem Municipality and the head of the Sanitation Department following numerous appeals from residents living in East Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the separation barrier regarding mountains of garbage piling up in the streets. Tens of thousands of residents and Israeli citizens live in these neighborhoods: the Shuafat Re

Photo: © Alanhutcheson | Dreamstime.com The Knesset is advancing a death penalty bill : Penal Code (Amendment—Death Penalty for Terrorists). Below is information about the bill, which ACRI unequivocally opposes.  What does the bill stipulate?  The most recent version of the bill, which was published on January 27, 2026, seeks to impose a mandatory death penalty for defendants convicted of murder motivated by terrorism in military courts in the West Bank, and a discretionary

Soldiers leading the cows from the pen owned by the petitioners to the civilian truck About a dozen armed and uniformed soldiers arrived at a barn belonging to a Palestinian family in the West Bank, handcuffed the barn owner and his son, broke through the barn's fences, and loaded the cattle belonging to the family onto a civilian truck that arrived at the scene escorted by military jeeps. Social media posts from a group that aids settlers in pursuing agricultural projects (l

Photo: © Syda Productions | Dreamstime.com Before the weekly government meetings, the agenda is usually published along with attached appendices, which include proposed resolutions. The agenda and appendices are distributed to ministers and professional officials, and published for the public on the website of the Prime Minister's Office. But what was published before the government meeting scheduled for January 25, 2026 was unusual. An agenda was published, but nothing was

© Andrei Dodonov | Dreamstime.com The Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitioned the Supreme Court on February 12, 2025, demanding the cancellation of the Protection of the Public from Criminal Organizations Law.   This law, which was approved by the Knesset as a temporary provision for two years, allows police to use tools that had previously reserved exclusively for counterterrorism and state security purposes, based on classified intelligence as well as administrat