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• MAN STABS PEOPLE AT GAY PRI MARCH JESALEM FOR SEND TIME
• REPEAT ATTACKER STABS 6 AT JESALEM GAY PRI PARA, POLICE SAY
• 6 STABBED AT GAY PRI PARA JESALEM
• JESALEM GAY PRI: ISRAEL TEENAGE STABBG VICTIM DI
• MAN STABS SIX PEOPLE AT JESALEM GAY PRI PARA; SPECT RRIED OUT SIAR ATTACK 2005
• 6 STABBED AT JESALEM GAY PRI PARA BY ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWISH ASSAILANT
• JESALEM GAY PRI ATTACK
• WHY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT’S CONMNATN OF JESALEM GAY PRI ATTACK IS HOLLOW
• GAY PRI PARA HELD JESALEM
• ULTRA-ORTHODOX ISRAELI STABS 6 AT A GAY PRI PARA FOR SEND TIME, POLICE SAY
• JESALEM GAY PRI PARA, RABBI'S FUNERAL SET HOUR APART RAISE TENSNS, THORI ON HIGH ALERT
• MAN STABS SIX AT GAY PRI PARA JESALEM, CRILLY WOUNDG ONE
• THE CAPAL PRI FAY EXTENDS SYMPATHI TO THOSE VICTIMIZED THE ATTACK ON THE JESALEM GAY PRI PARA.
• ATTACK ON GAY PRI PARA SHAK ISRAEL’S SELF-IMAGE AS BASTN OF TOLERANCE
• 16-YEAR-OLD GAY PRI MARCHER DI OM STAB WOUNDS JESALEM

MAN STABS PEOPLE AT GAY PRI MARCH JESALEM FOR SEND TIME

A relig protter armed wh a knife has n amok durg Jesalem’s gay pri march, stabbg six people – one woman serly – the worst cint of homophobic vlence the cy a . Acrdg to eyewns, the attacker – named by a police spokman as Yishai Schlissel – had hidn himself a supermarket and waed for the march to scribed seeg Schlissel, an ultra-Orthodox Jew who had been released om prison three weeks earlier after servg a sentence for stabbg several people at a gay pri para 2005, n screamg through the crowd a central Jesalem street, stabbg people at random before beg overpowered by Associated Prs photographer pictured Schlissel, heavily beard and drsed relig cloth, shortly before he began his attack, walkg through the crowd wh his hand si his jacket apparently hidg a knife om view.

GuardianThe march, which attracts thoands of participants, has long been a foc of tensn between Israel’s predomantly secular majory and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish mory, who object to homosexualy. While the event tak place annually whout cint the more gay-iendly bs hub of Tel Aviv, Jesalem, where the relig populatn is more domant, vlence has epted the Shoshei, aged 18, told the Guardian she was knocked over as the attacker stabbed a man she was talkg to the back. ”Schlissel, who liv Modi Il, a settlement the Wt Bank, stabbed three participants the 2005 gay pri march and was recently released om prison after servg 10 years of a 12-year sentence for attempted murr.

REPEAT ATTACKER STABS 6 AT JESALEM GAY PRI PARA, POLICE SAY

Another attack on Israel’s homosexual muny occurred 2009 when a gunman attacked a centre for young gay people Tel Aviv, killg two and woundg 15 others. Israeli police say Shlissel, an Orthodox Jew, was released om prison three weeks ago after servg a 10-year prison sentence for stabbg and woundg three marchers at a Jesalem gay pri para 2005.

6 STABBED AT GAY PRI PARA JESALEM

JERUSALEM (AP) — Revelers dancg and sgg through the streets of Jesalem durg the holy cy's annual gay pri were left shriekg pa and panic Thursday night, as an anti-gay extremist lunged to the march's lears and stabbed six people, Israeli police and wns said the attacker, Yishai Schlissel, who was arrted at the scene for Thursday's attack, had been released om prison jt three weeks ago, after servg a sentence for stabbg several people at a gay pri para Jesalem B of Israel's emergency service said six young people were wound the attack, two of them Gay Pri Para was proceedg as planned wh party mic, Israeli flags and rabow-clad marchers wendg their way through the heart of the barrid streets of central Jesalem, unr a heavy police Associated Prs photographer saw the attacker enter the throng of people wh his hand his at and wh sends raise a knife and beg stabbg people the back.

Shocked revelers, some tears, gathered along the siwalk and hugged and forted each other as ambulanc and police on hors quickly the attack ed shock, was not unprecented: Schlissel was nvicted of a siar stabbg attack that wound several people at a gay pri para Jesalem a Thursday, media reports said that Schlissel hid a nearby supermarket and jumped out to attack the march when passed nearby.

JESALEM GAY PRI: ISRAEL TEENAGE STABBG VICTIM DI

Jesalem's para is much smaller and more rtraed than the annual gay pri march the secular pal Tel Aviv, which was attend by some 100, 000 revelers last month. The Israeli cy stands sharp ntrast to most of the rt of the Middle East, where gays are persecuted or even serve openly Israel's ary and parliament, and many popular artists and entertaers are gay, but gays still face some hostily om ultra-nservative relig 's Channel 2 TV aired an terview that Schlissel gave to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish se recently where he spoke out agast the gay para takg place Jesalem.

Media ptn, A ndlel vigil for Shira Banki took place Tel Aviv on SundayA teenage girl who was stabbed at a Gay Pri march Jesalem has died om her wounds, doctors say. Dramatic imag of Thursday's attack Jesalem showed the spect reachg si his at and raisg a knife above his then began stabbg marchers while screamg, before beg tackled by a police source, APImage ptn, A photographer ptured the moments before the attackImage source, APImage ptn, Schlissel was released om prison jt three weeks ago after servg 10 years for the 2005 attackThe para ntued after the wound were taken to hospal, wh protters chantg "end the vlence" Mister Netanyahu nmned the attack as "a most ser cint" Gay Pri event has long been a source of tensn between Jesalem's secular mory and s Jewish Orthodox muni. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Thoands attend an anti-homophobia rally on Saturday JesalemCorrectn 4 Augt 2015: This story, which rrectly said Jesalem's secular muny formed a majory the cy, has been on this story.

MAN STABS SIX PEOPLE AT JESALEM GAY PRI PARA; SPECT RRIED OUT SIAR ATTACK 2005

Police say that the man spected the stabbg at the gay pri para Jesalem today is Yishai Schlissel, the same person who mted the attack on the Jesalem gay pri para 10 years ago. After the attack on the gay pri para steps away om his official rince, Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu receiv a briefg om Public Secury Mister Gilad Erdan about the attack. Edutn Mister Naftali Bent, head of the right wg natnalist Jewish Home party, says rponse to the attack that “the stabbg at the gay pri para is a moral crime that nnot be fiven.

Jesalem Mayor Nir Barkat nmns the stabbg at the gay pri para, sayg was “an attempt to harm the fabric of life the cy and prevent the basic right of eedom of exprsn. The ultra-Orthodox news se Kikar Hashabbat reports on the stabbg at the Jesalem gay pri para which six were jured, but refers to the event as the “Abomatn March” s headle and reportg.

6 STABBED AT JESALEM GAY PRI PARA BY ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWISH ASSAILANT

Along the stone siwalks on Keren Hayod Street Jesalem’s cy center, a long le of people — mostly fai and teens, a low-key crowd unlike the stereotype of most gay pri paras — marched solidary wh Jesalem’s LGBTQ muny. The Anti-Defamatn League out nmnatn of the attack on the Jesalem gay pri para, sayg ’s “shocked and horrified by this heo attack on a para that is wily attend and clus ernment reprentativ and polil lears. Six people were stabbed at the annual Jesalem Gay Pri Para on Thursday by an ultra-Orthodox man who perpetrated a siar stabbg at the 2005 Schlissel, of Modi’ Ill, was released om prison several weeks ago after servg 10 years prison for his last attack, which wound three people.

Another far-right mister wh a history of homophobia, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who now overse the police, was tasked wh securg Jesalem para is normally a relatively staid annual tradn. Activists have reported a sharp crease anti-gay abe and vlence Israel recent months, and had been expectg a large turnout for this year’s para.

JESALEM GAY PRI ATTACK

Members of Israel’s tech sector, women’s anizatns and army rervists who, together wh the gay muny, have played a proment role the anti-judicial overhl protts, attend the Jesalem para Netanyahu has pledged to protect gay rights and appoted Amir Ohana, a member of his nservative Likud party, as the first openly gay speaker of Israel’s Ohana was publicly weled at a state ceremony this year, markg the 75th anniversary of Israel’s tablishment, together wh his life partner, unrlg the high profile of the gay muny Israel even as hostile rhetoric om officials grows.

WHY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT’S CONMNATN OF JESALEM GAY PRI ATTACK IS HOLLOW

“Maybe we won’t see a law sayg gay men have to wear a pk shirt Israel, ” said Jonathan Valfer, chairman of the Jesalem Open Hoe for Pri and Tolerance and a para anizer, of the potential dangers posed by the ernment’s judicial the end, he said an terview, gay rights — such as same-sex surrogacy rights — have mostly been nferred by the Supreme Court rather than the lawmakers. ”ImageAmir Ohana, a member of the nservative Likud party, is the first openly gay speaker of Israel’s Elkayam for The New York TimReflectg the more nservative character of the holy cy, the annual para Jesalem is much smaller and quieter than the rnival-like one Tel Aviv, which tak place a week later and attracts up to 250, 000 Israeli L. Activists had raised fears of vlence durg the para, cg a 2022 report that showed a spike plats about homophobic and transphobic verbal and physil asslts Israel the last two months of last year, a rult, they said, of the oute of the Nov.

He and Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right fance mister, participated a notor “Beast Para, ” a provotive anti-gay march wh donkeys and goat Jesalem Gharabli/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagBoth Mr.

People are ncerned about the recent allotn of nearly $80 ln ernment fundg over the next two years for a new thory to promote Jewish natnal inty, head by Avi Maoz, a puty mister the prime mister’s office who promot polici that crics scribe as homophobic, racist and misogynist.

GAY PRI PARA HELD JESALEM

Maoz, lear of the far-right Noam party, says he will create a mechanism to help parents track the tnal ntent their children’s schools — a move, crics say, that uld be ed to crack down on programs that promote the rights of mori and told a small, relig publitn shortly before the ernment was formed that he tend to work to ncel the annual gay pri para Jesalem, which he scribed as “an obscene abomatn. Smotrich at the “Beast Para, ” askg if the were gog to be his future aln Ohana noted that the last ernment, a broad aln of anti-Netanyahu forc, clud a small Islamist party, Raam, which is vilently opposed to gay rights. ” More about Isabel KershnerA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 6 of the New York edn wh the headle: Conflict Wh Israel’s Far Right Over Gay Rights Shrouds a Pri Para.

Yishai Schlissel walks through a Gay Pri para and is jt about to pull a knife om unr his at and start stabbg people Jesalem, Thursday, July 30, 2015. Earlier on Thursday, Israel Police arrted right-wg extremist Bach Marzel though they nied the arrt had anythg to do wh the cy's annual Gay Pri Para. Yishai Schlissel's arrt at the Gay Pri Para on July 30, 2015 (left), and his arrt E Salman, Uri LantzOpposn lear Isaac Herzog lled the stabbg a "heo hate crime" and urged the police to allow gay pri events to go on.

A stabbg victim at the Jesalem Gay Pri Para, July 30, E SalmanPlacloth Israeli police ta an-ultra Orthodox Jew after he attacked people wh a knife durg a Gay Pri para Thursday, July 30, 2015 central AP. A participant of an annual gay pri para is treated after an Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and jurg six participants of an annual Gay Pri march Jesalem, July 30, 2015.

ULTRA-ORTHODOX ISRAELI STABS 6 AT A GAY PRI PARA FOR SEND TIME, POLICE SAY

People ta after disarmg an Orthodox Jewish assailant, after he stabbed and jured six participants of an annual gay pri para Jesalem, July 30, 2015. Participants of a gay pri para Jesalem treat an jured person after an Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and jured six participants the annual march Jesalem, July 30, 2015. A participant of an annual gay pri para is treated after an Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and jured six participants Jesalem on Thursday, police and wns said July 30, 2015.

JESALEM GAY PRI PARA, RABBI'S FUNERAL SET HOUR APART RAISE TENSNS, THORI ON HIGH ALERT

Participants take part an annual gay pri para, before an Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and wound six people, Jesalem on Thursday, police and wns said July 30, 2015.

We Sharpened the Assailant's Knife MK 'Com Out' After Jesalem Gay Pri Para Stabbg Alleged Gay Pri Attacker Rejects Court's Authory The stabbg, allegedly rried out by the same perpetrator who stabbed three people at the Pri Para a ago, remds that, spe the liberal image we flnt, Israel is still not a safe place for gays, lbians, transgenr people or bisexuals.

Yet a member of his own aln, MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habay Hayehudi), anized a homophobic untermarch agast the Gay Pri Para Jesalem 2006 – he lled “the beast para” – only a year after the 2005 stabbgs.

MAN STABS SIX AT GAY PRI PARA JESALEM, CRILLY WOUNDG ONE

Words of nmnatn heard now om Edutn Mister Naftali Bent rg hollow light of the homophobic views of his party, and the fact that Smotrich is a member of his factn. Behd the pkwashg, and alongsi the many LGBT-rights achievements ma by members of the muny and urt lgs, turns out that homophobia s worst forms exists wh the Israeli ernment – particularly the tn mister and Jtice Mister Ayelet Shaked’s party, as we saw before the Knset electn March. Not only LGBT closets, but also the closets of silence that legimize homophobia as legal discrimatn ntu; the closets of silence that legimize homophobia wh the erng aln and the ernment self; the closets of silence that should make impossible to be favor of the LGBT muny while beg agast mocracy, and favor of racism and opprsn of other mory groups.

THE CAPAL PRI FAY EXTENDS SYMPATHI TO THOSE VICTIMIZED THE ATTACK ON THE JESALEM GAY PRI PARA.

Unr a stream of rabow-lored flags and amongst a nsortium of different participants, nearly 3, 000 people om around the untry turned out Thursday for the annual Jesalem Gay Pri Para, which began at 4:30pm the pal’s Inpennce Park amid a large ployment of secury forc and sttered protts agast the para, which is tradnally held June, was postponed this year specifilly to ci wh the one-year anniversary of a shootg rampage that took place at the Bar Noar gay and lbian youth center Tel Aviv last summer, claimg the liv of Nir Katz 24, and Liz Trobashi 27.

ATTACK ON GAY PRI PARA SHAK ISRAEL’S SELF-IMAGE AS BASTN OF TOLERANCE

RELATED:TA's 'Gay Vibe' aims to set tourism rerds Tel Aviv gay para draws thoandsThat se, which left fifteen others wound after a masked gunman stormed to the center and opened fire wh what is prumed to have been an asslt rifle, has yet to be acrdance wh that theme, those wound the attack marched -- and phed themselv wheelchairs -- alongsi fellow participants rryg signs memory of Katz and Trobashi, wh others llg for their killer to be brought to jtice. “It’s one year later, and we still have no answers, ” said one participant, Aharon Segev, who add that he was marchg for both the victims of the attack and the general issu of equaly and rights for Israel’s LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) muny Israel. "We will ntue to e here every year, to Jesalem, bee this is the most important place, not only for the gay muny, but for everyone who r about the ee and mocratic character of the State of Israel, ” he draws wispread nmnatn om different groupsNohels, the para drew nmnatn and prott om var groups wh the pal, although no vlence was reported by police and the march ma s way, whout cint, om Inpennce Park to the Wohl Rose Garn, where a memorial service for Katz and Trobashi was the onset of the para, Paris Square on the rner of Agron and Keren Hayod Streets, a group of right-wg activists led by Bach Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir held up signs clarg, “Jesalem is a holy cy.

Sebastian Scheer/Associated PrsJuly 30, 2015JERUSALEM — An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who had recently been released om prison after servg 10 years for stabbg participants the annual Gay Pri Para here 2005 stck aga Thursday, stabbg six marchers this year’s para, acrdg to the of the victims were ser ndn, acrdg to the emergency servic. Jesalem’s annual Gay Pri Para has long stirred strong emotns the cy, wh many Orthodox Jews objectg to the public display, sayg that fil the cy and offends many of s rints.

16-YEAR-OLD GAY PRI MARCHER DI OM STAB WOUNDS JESALEM

Jesalem’s Gay Pri Para, a smaller event than the annual para Tel Aviv, went ahead one year after a urt orr, over the objectns of the Cy Council.

It has ocsnally been nfed to a stadium as a Israeli officials often hold up the untry’s rerd of tolerance toward gay and lbian cizens as a badge of honor and as evince of Israeli mocracy, potg out that other ernments the regn are more opprsive. Sebastian Scheer/Associated Prs“In Israel everyone, cludg the gay muny, has the right to live peace, and we will fend that right, ” Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu said a televised statement.