ADDED ON: 06/05/2023
A sigh of relief was released by Israeli Police’s top brass after the Gay Pride and Tolerance Parade in Jerusalem on June 1 ended without disturbances. Police estimated that roughly 10,000 people…
ADDED ON: 06/03/2023
“Were you at the parade?” asks the man seated across from me on the train back to Tel Aviv late Thursday night. He's wearing the bright pink shirt of the anti-Netanyahu protest…
ADDED ON: 05/23/2023
A special meeting of the Jerusalem City Council to mark the capital’s unification in 1967 devolved into a series of statements questioning the rights of LGBTQ people in the city, with a…
ADDED ON: 05/08/2023
The Israel Police last week issued a new regulation regarding body searches of transgender people who have not fully transitioned, which several LGBTQ groups decry as harmful, humiliating and traumatic. The police’s operations…
ADDED ON: 03/20/2023
The number of complaints of harm to members of the LGBTQ community rose by 11 percent in 2022, according to the annual report by The Aguda – Israel’s LGBTQ Task Force, which…
ADDED ON: 03/16/2023
The annual gala of A Wider Bridge, a Jewish LGBTQ group, had all the trappings of a festive event: Guests arrived in cocktail attire finery — one woman wore a tiered, ruffled…
ADDED ON: 03/06/2023
An international summit organized by Israel’s LGBT Tech and Madrid’s IE University will allow students and professionals in the LGBTQ+ community to “inspire and support” each other on March 16 in Tel…
ADDED ON: 02/15/2023
A veteran Orthodox journalist on the country’s most-watched news network came out as gay on Tuesday. “I love men and I love God, and this is neither contradictory nor new,” wrote Channel…
ADDED ON: 12/31/2022
The Israeli legislature has elected Amir Ohana as its first out gay speaker as a number of anti-LGBTQ+ politicians are made cabinet members. Ohana, a close ally of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu,…
ADDED ON: 12/28/2022
Israel’s largest medical center and health care workers from hospitals around the country have spoken out against remarks by allies of Benjamin Netanyahu calling for a law to allow discrimination against LGBTQ…
ADDED ON: 12/26/2022
JERUSALEM — Designated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a rare rebuke of his new coalition allies on Sunday for saying they would advance laws allowing discrimination against LGBTQ people, pledging there…
ADDED ON: 12/25/2022
Religious Zionism party lawmaker Orit Strock said on Sunday that a doctor shouldn't be forced to provide treatment that contradicts his religious beliefs, "as long as there are other doctors who can…
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