Photo: Wix About half of Israel's residents—Arabs, immigrants, etc.—belong to minority groups where Hebrew is not the dominant language. There are also thousands of people who do not speak Hebrew who live in Israel, including Palestinians, migrant workers, tourists, refugees and asylum seekers, etc. When those who do not speak Hebrew fluently, or at all, need to go to court, translation services is necessary in the administration of justice and ensuring their right to access

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

© Rafael Ben Ari | Dreamstime.com On October 20, 2025, ACRI contacted the legal advisors to the government, the Israel Prison Service (IPS), and the Ministry of National Security, following media reports about plans to reclassify anyone incarcerated for remaining in the country illegally from criminal prisoners to security prisoners. The appeal warns against the harmful implications of the new policy and requests that this change not move forward.   In the appeal, Attorney Ni

Illustrative. Foreign workers in Tel Aviv. Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-stok Since the outbreak of the war, there has been a rollback of protections regarding the recruitment and employment of migrant workers in Israel. Three government decisions concerning the commerce and services sector are one area in which it is apparent that these protections, which were won after decades of intense work, are being removed.    The three government decisions defined the "commerce and servi

© Masar1920 | Dreamstime.com ACRI and Bimkom—Planners for Planning Rights contacted the Director General of the Planning Administration...

Photo: © Georgy Dzyura | Dreamstime.com At the end of the last Knesset session the Knesset quickly passed an amendment to the...

ACRI, the Center for the Protection of the Individual, and Physicians for Human Rights petitioned the Supreme Court on April 25, 2022, on...

Katzir. Photo: Public Domain, Wikimedia On July 28, 2025, ACRI approached the Attorney General, the Accountant General at the Ministry of...

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitioned the High Court of Justice on May 23, 2024, requesting that it order the police to...

The State Attorney's Guideline 14.12 establishes that police must obtain approval from the prosecutor’s office before opening an...

On the night of November 7, 2024 the Knesset approved the Deportation of Families of Terrorists Law, 5785-2024.  What does the law...

The criteria under which a person or party can be disqualified from running in elections are laid out in Section 7A of Basic Law: The...

The Knesset is expected to approve the second and third readings of the Protection  of the Public from Criminal Organizations Law (on ...

For years, the police and the Ministry of Justice have refused to provide information on criminal cases according to various parameters...

On June 7, 2022, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) filed a lawsuit in the Haifa District Court seeking a declaratory...

On February 6, 2024, we sent the Ministry of Justice legal correspondence (Hebrew) demanding the establishment of ethics rules and...

Bedouin citizens and residents living in unrecognized villages are entitled to register their residence in accordance with their tribal...

For years, ACRI and the Clinic for Human Rights at the University of Haifa have argued that the Israeli interest rate mechanism is...

The 25th Knesset and 37th Government: Monitoring Initiatives that Damage Human Rights and Democracy August 2023 Find the full paper here:...

On February 25, 2021, the Association for Civil Rights filed a petition (Hebrew) with the Supreme Court on behalf of three residents of...