A special Knesset committee is currently debating the Communications (Broadcasting) Bill, 2025 ("Broadcasting Bill"), which seeks to enact reforms in Israel’s commercial broadcasting market and its regulation. Among other things, it proposes to establish a new regulatory body that would replace the existing one. This new regulator would have the power to censor broadcasts and would be subject to political influence. This would, consequently, weaken or destroy the tools design

Photo: © Tero Vesalainen | Dreamstime.com At the end of a major hearing at the Supreme Court this past July, the court's security guards feared violence from right-wing activists who had come to court. To avoid this, they helped representatives from ACRI quickly escape from the courtroom the moment the proceedings ended and tried to hide us in one of the corners of the building. And so there we found ourselves, after a principled and important legal hearing about the starva

Every year, the Association for Civil Rights awards the Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award  to a person or organization that has made a significant contribution to the advancement of human rights in Israel. These are the recipients of the 2025 award:   Jack Khoury. Photo: Rami Shllush, Haaretz Jack Khoury , journalist for Haaretz and news director of Radio A-Shams. For two decades, Khoury has consistently and persistently called for human rights and equality, and for mediation

Wix media On September 18, 2025, ACRI sent a petition to the Attorney General following the recent expansion of the involvement of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) in investigating suspected criminal incidents by framing them as terrorist events. For instance, several months ago the Shin Bet was involved in investigating an incident in which marine flares were set off in Caesarea; in recent weeks there have been reports that the Shin Bet is involved in investigating susp

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