© Palex66 | Dreamstime.com On November 18, 2025, ACRI reached out to the Police Commissioner, the Directors-General of the Ministry of Welfare and the Ministry of National Security, and the State Attorney, demanding immediate and systematic action to address the ongoing issue of "intersection children." These are Palestinian minors, including children as young as five, who are brought to Israel in order to beg and sell trinkets at major traffic intersections. The children li

© Ritu Jethani | Dreamstime.com In November 2025, the drugstore chain Super-Pharm decided to change its policy toward people with disabilities who hold a "queue exemption" card and would no longer allow individuals to skip the line for the pharmacy unless they are Ministry of Defense beneficiaries. It would continue to honor the "queue exemption" card at the regular checkout counters. In making the change, the chain relied on an interpretation of the law stating that accessib

© Ben Gingell | Dreamstime.com First Petition   On August 18, 2019, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Association of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, and the Public Committee Against Torture petitioned the Supreme Court with the demand that the court prohibit police from detaining people on the street and asking them to present identification when there is no suspicion that they have committed a crime. As part of the petition, we also called for the revocation of the

Photo: Gali Bessido, Shatil-Stok On February 2, 2025, the Association for Civil Rights submitted a petition to the Ministry of Tourism on behalf of four residents from Sderot who were evacuated from their city days after the war began. These residents, who were dealing with the effects of being displaced from their homes, were then denied the housing grants they were entitled to, or discovered that they had accumulated debt with the National Insurance Institute due to incorre

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...