Dr. Netta Amar Shiff

A Jewish Yemeni-origin Israeli human rights lawyer working on Palestinian rights since 1998. Her expertise includes international human rights and humanitarian law, focusing on planning rights, demolitions, and forcible displacement in the West Bank, as well as constitutional and administrative law.  Her doctoral research examines the legal-geography of international law related to the displacement of Bedouin communities in the Negev and West Bank. She filed the Mizrahi petition against Israel’s 2019 Nation-State Law and currently directs the Mizrahi Civic Collective. She has also worked with and served on boards of organizations such as B’Tselem,Diakonia, and UN OCHA in the oPt.