Tag Archive: Avichai Mandelblit

Fighting Mass Surveillance

Israeli human rights organizations are taking a stand against the Israel Police’s frequent use of the highly invasive spyware, Pegasus.

Defending Democracy

Israel Police investigate Likud interference in Police Chief appointment after intervention by Uri Zaki, head of NIF grantee, Front for the Protection of Democracy.

Securing Vaccinations in Israeli Prisons

After five NIF grantees petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court, the Israel Prison Service has begun vaccinating prisoners over 45.

Resisting Protest Suppression

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel is speaking out against anti-democratic restrictions on the right to protest.

Demanding Protections for Asylum Seekers

Israeli civil society and several members of Knesset are raising their voices against the freezing of government assistance to refugees.

Israel’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Illegal Settlement Regularization Law

Thanks to a petition by NIF grantees Adalah and ACRI, Israel’s Supreme Court has overturned a law allowing for the retroactive legalization of West Bank settlements.

Speaking Out Against Home Demolitions

Network of Israeli organizations campaign against the continued demolition of unrecognized Bedouin villages.

Fighting Back Against Voter Suppression

Zazim – Community Action and Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights help fight intimidation tactics targeting Arab voters in the upcoming elections.

Israeli Civil Society Orgs React to Israeli Election Committee’s ‘No Camera’ Ruling Against Likud Voter Suppression Tactics

Responding to news that the Chairman of Israel’s Central Election Committee, Justice Hanan Melcer, had ruled that political parties will not be allowed to set up cameras in polling places, three leading civil society organizations in Israel who challenged Likud voter suppression tactics and NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statements…

Defending the Right to Protest

The right to peaceful assembly is a core part of democracy in America and in Israel too. We Israelis forsake it at our democracy’s peril.