High Court of Justice

Israel Prison Service officers prepare Palestinian prisoners for release as part of a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel, February 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘I cannot help my clients’: The impossible task of representing Palestinian detainees

With Israel running its prisons as ‘torture facilities,’ lawyers point to the absence of state and judicial oversight allowing them to operate with impunity.

By Lee Mordechai and Liat Kozma January 27, 2026

A Haredi man watches as a fire burns during a protest against mandatory conscription into the Israeli army, Jerusalem, June 30, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

‘We’d rather die than enlist’: Haredi Jews vow to defy conscription

An Israeli High Court ruling has overturned a decades-old military exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews, leading thousands to rage against the state and their community’s politicians.

By Oren Ziv July 2, 2024

All 15 justices of Israel's High Court sit for a hearing on petitions against the government's amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary, Jerusalem, September 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Will Israel’s High Court defy the far-right government?

As the Court hears petitions against the first judicial overhaul bill, Palestinian human rights lawyer Hassan Jabareen assesses the state of play.

By Ghousoon Bisharat September 15, 2023

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi during a tour near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, March 16, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel’s security brass are defending the High Court to save themselves

Israel's top court has consistently shielded soldiers from standing trial. Now they fear the judicial overhaul could expose them to prosecution overseas.

By Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown) September 11, 2023

Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin addresses the Knesset ahead of a vote to abolish the reasonableness standard, Jerusalem, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s justice minister gives away the real aim of the judicial coup’s first law

In a Knesset speech, Yariv Levin listed five gov't decisions that were blocked for being ‘unreasonable.’ All were about Palestinians and the occupation.

By Ben Reiff July 25, 2023

Israeli soldiers block the path of a Palestinian shepherd and her flock of sheep near the West Bank village of Al-Mufagara, South Hebron Hills, West Bank, December 21, 2012. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

‘The hardest year of my life’: Masafer Yatta shepherds suffer under expulsion threat

Israel's escalating repression since last year's High Court ruling has severely impacted Palestinian shepherds, a pillar of their communities' survival.

By Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini June 5, 2023

Israeli left-wing activists march during a protest against incitement against Breaking The Silence and other left-wing NGOs, Tel Aviv, December 19, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

With NGO assault, Israel drops its fig leaf

The Israeli right has co-opted Rabin's slogan 'without a High Court and B'Tselem' to undermine those institutions — but for a different purpose.

By Orly Noy May 30, 2023

An illustration of a new Israeli passport and an old Israeli passport with different stamps in Jerusalem, January 18, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Explainer: Israel expands power to strip Palestinians of citizenship and residency

A new law, passed by an overwhelming Knesset majority, is part of an ongoing process of entrenching separate legal systems for Jews and Palestinians.

By Adalah February 20, 2023

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut and other justices arrive for a court hearing on the election committee's decision to disqualify Balad from running in the Knesset election, Jerusalem, October 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli courts legitimized the state’s worst policies. We must still protect them

It is hard for critics to stand up for a judiciary that enables many human rights abuses. But the coalition's plans would make the regime far more repressive.

By Natalie Davidson and Limor Yehuda January 23, 2023

Golani Brigade soldiers during a nighttime operation in a West Bank village, August 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

The Israeli army promised to avoid arresting kids at night. It never even tried

Despite committing to new procedures to reduce the practice, the army is still using night arrests as a default against Palestinian children, says rights group.

By Oren Ziv and Basel Adra January 17, 2023

WATCH: Women of Masafer Yatta tell their stories of resistance

As Israel carries out its expulsions in the West Bank region, Palestinian women talk about what it means to face a state that targets them as an 'enemy.'

By Social TV August 29, 2022

View of the Jewish settler outpost of Mitzpe Kramim occupied West Bank, August 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Everyone is in on the plunder of Palestinian land

The retroactive legalization of a settler outpost exposes the complicity of the entire Zionist spectrum in the dispossession of Palestinians.

By Orly Noy August 2, 2022

Israeli forces conducting a training drill near and inside villages in the Masafer Yatta area, West Bank, February 3, 2021. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

Israel says this book justifies Masafer Yatta expulsions. Its author begs to differ

An Israeli anthropologist contradicts the High Court's claim that his study proved Palestinian villages didn't exist when the army declared a firing zone.

By Yuval Abraham May 25, 2022