© 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

© Maksym Voitenko | Dreamstime.com Since the beginning of the war, major movement restrictions have been imposed on Palestinian residents of Hebron. Palestinians in the city are under curfew, which means that all residents, including young children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, are prohibited from leaving their homes; they are not allowed to open their shops; driving in private Palestinian vehicles is not allowed and emergency and service vehicles must coordinat

© 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

@ Costasz | Dreamstime.com On December 19, 2025 the media reported that the Israel Police opened an investigation into an incident in which a passerby blew out Hanukkah candles that were placed in the Weizmann Mall in Tel Aviv. Reports stated that the police have not yet determined the nature of the alleged crime, and that it is considering charging the passerby with the crime of desecration of a place of worship. Two days later it was reported that another investigation was

Illustrative. Photo: Sebastian27 via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) On December 17, 2025 ACRI submitted a petition to the Supreme Court on behalf of fans of the soccer team Hapoel Tel Aviv against the Police Commissioner. The petition demands that the police immediately stop enforcing an illegal policy to prevent fans from entering the soccer stadium because of their clothing or controversial political content.  The petition details a series of incidents that occurred in recent wee

© 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

Gaza, November 25, 2025. Photo by Yousef Zaanoun, Activestills On December 16, 2025 ACRI sent an urgent appeal to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the Commander of the Southern Command, and the Minister of Defense, demanding that residents of the Gaza Strip be supplied immediately with protective equipment to cope with the looming winter, including tents, sealing sheets, blankets, sanitation equipment, and heating and lighting equipment.  In the ap

Photo: © Karl Francis Dale Tapales | Dreamstime.com On December 15, 2025, ACRI, together with Itach-Maaki and Physicians for Human Rights, sent an appeal to the Ministry of Health regarding the mediators program operated through the Ministry of Health, via a contractor, at 26 Tipat Halav (well-baby) clinics in Bedouin communities in the Negev. The program's purpose is to reduce infant mortality in Bedouin society: mediators translate and make medical information accessible t

© 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