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May 6, 2013
7:59 pm

An unrecognized Bedouin village in the northern Negev (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

Government bill aims to regulate Bedouin settlement

Civil rights group says legislation ‘compounds concerns of ethnic discrimination’

By Times of Israel staff

April 24, 2013
10:07 pm

A passenger has his luggage checked by security personnel at Ben Gurion Airport (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israel approves email checks at the border

Attorney general says security personnel may search online accounts of foreigners attempting to enter the country

April 23, 2013
3:55 am

A bird's eye view of Silwan in East Jerusalem (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

NGOs slam J’lem city plan for harming Palestinians

Human rights groups petition court over use of unapproved development policy

By Michal Shmulovich

March 12, 2013
7:37 pm

African immigrants seen at a detention facility located in the south of Israel. August, 2012. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Court orders state to explain migrant detentions

High Court decree follows petition claiming Israel’s jailing of asylum-seekers is illegal and ‘torments innocent people’

By Stuart Winer

January 29, 2013
11:17 pm

Newly arrived Ethiopian immigrants at Ben Gurion Airport in December 2011 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israel changes birth-control policy for Ethiopian immigrants

Amid accusations of racism, Health Ministry instructs HMOs not to automatically renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera

By Asher Zeiger

December 30, 2012
8:09 pm

High Court was right to let controversial Arab MK run, legal experts say

Strict interpretation of the law would lead to numerous political bans, scholars say, and Israel is plenty strong enough to allow Hanin Zoabi’s radical parliamentary dissent

By Raphael Ahren

December 16, 2012
3:27 pm

A family of African migrants in the Shapira neighborhood of Tel Aviv (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel guilty of ‘bleak’ and ‘severe’ human rights abuses, local NGO asserts

Civil rights group’s report decries situation in the West Bank, among the Bedouin, and relating to African migrants in Tel Aviv

By Raphael Ahren

December 4, 2012
10:24 pm

An aerial view of Moshav Bnei Zion in southern Israel (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

A fraught civil rights case nears an end in Israel’s High Court

Rights groups are trying to strike down a law allowing residents of rural communities to screen newcomers, a challenge one state lawyer says touches on the ‘essence of our existence here’

By Matti Friedman

November 4, 2012
11:32 am

A child walks past the newly-named Umm Kulthum street in east Jerusalem, Oct. 24, 2012, (photo credit: AP/Bernat Armangue)

East Jerusalem, where the streets had no names

For decades local residents used landmarks as their only method of navigation; municipality now working to ensure every building has an address

By Tia Goldenberg

October 31, 2012
1:30 am

Modi'in's Anabe Park (photo credit: Jorge Novominsky/Flash 90)

Civil rights group challenges Modiin park restrictions

Municipality accused of excluding Orthodox Jews during summer, holidays

By Greg Tepper

September 6, 2012
6:50 pm

Israeli soldiers stand guard on Tuesday as Eritrean asylum seekers sit on the ground behind a border fence, after they attempted to cross illegally from Egypt into Israel. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel allows in two women, one youth stuck on Sinai border

After eight days camped out on the border with Egypt, three of 21 stranded Eritreans given permission to come in

By Yifa Yaakov and Times of Israel staff

September 6, 2012
11:23 am

Doctors barred from accessing Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ petitions High Court to allow asylum seekers to enter; second hearing set for Sunday

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

September 6, 2012
7:15 am

High Court to hear petition on behalf of Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ seeks order granting asylum seekers entry into country

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

September 5, 2012
3:06 pm

Dozens of African migrants cross into southern Israel through the border with Egypt in 2010. (photo credit: AP/Assaf Golan)

Eritreans stuck at Egyptian border won’t be allowed in, interior minister says

20 migrants, caught between two sets of barriers, left in sun for six days

By Michal Shmulovich

August 28, 2012
11:00 pm

Young Arab girls seen studying during a lesson in the newly opened elementary school in the Arab neighborhood of Umm Tuba, in East Jerusalem in December 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Civil rights groups charge officials don’t have handle on East Jerusalem school rolls

More than 20,000 pupils are unaccounted for and over 1,000 classroom are still missing despite High Court order, according to new report

By Raphael Ahren

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: ACRI Association for Civil Rights in Israel

Government bill aims to regulate Bedouin settlement

Civil rights group says legislation ‘compounds concerns of ethnic discrimination’

Israel approves email checks at the border

Attorney general says security personnel may search online accounts of foreigners attempting to enter the country

NGOs slam J’lem city plan for harming Palestinians

Human rights groups petition court over use of unapproved development policy

Court orders state to explain migrant detentions

High Court decree follows petition claiming Israel’s jailing of asylum-seekers is illegal and ‘torments innocent people’

Israel changes birth-control policy for Ethiopian immigrants

Amid accusations of racism, Health Ministry instructs HMOs not to automatically renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera

High Court was right to let controversial Arab MK run, legal experts say

Strict interpretation of the law would lead to numerous political bans, scholars say, and Israel is plenty strong enough to allow Hanin Zoabi’s radical parliamentary dissent

Israel guilty of ‘bleak’ and ‘severe’ human rights abuses, local NGO asserts

Civil rights group’s report decries situation in the West Bank, among the Bedouin, and relating to African migrants in Tel Aviv

A fraught civil rights case nears an end in Israel’s High Court

Rights groups are trying to strike down a law allowing residents of rural communities to screen newcomers, a challenge one state lawyer says touches on the ‘essence of our existence here’

East Jerusalem, where the streets had no names

For decades local residents used landmarks as their only method of navigation; municipality now working to ensure every building has an address

Civil rights group challenges Modiin park restrictions

Municipality accused of excluding Orthodox Jews during summer, holidays

Israel allows in two women, one youth stuck on Sinai border

After eight days camped out on the border with Egypt, three of 21 stranded Eritreans given permission to come in

Doctors barred from accessing Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ petitions High Court to allow asylum seekers to enter; second hearing set for Sunday

High Court to hear petition on behalf of Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ seeks order granting asylum seekers entry into country

Eritreans stuck at Egyptian border won’t be allowed in, interior minister says

20 migrants, caught between two sets of barriers, left in sun for six days

Civil rights groups charge officials don’t have handle on East Jerusalem school rolls

More than 20,000 pupils are unaccounted for and over 1,000 classroom are still missing despite High Court order, according to new report

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