Contents:
- ISRAEL GETS FIRST GAY MISTER: OHANA APPOTED TERIM JTICE MISTER
- LIKUD’S AMIR OHANA BE ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY KNSET SPEAKER
- ISRAEL HAS S FIRST GAY ERNMENT MISTER — NETANYAHU LOYALIST AMIR OHANA
- EAN GZBURG TO BEE ISRAEL'S THIRD GAY BET MISTER ON MONDAY
- ISRAEL REACH RERD NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY LAWMAKERS
- OHANA BE FIRST GAY KNSET SPEAKER AS NETANYAHU RETAK OFFICE
- ISRAEL HAS S FIRST GAY ERNMENT MISTER. HE’S LOYAL TO NETANYAHU.
- AMIR OHANA IS GAY AND RIGHT-WG. HOW FAR CAN HE GO ISRAEL?
- ISRAEL'S OPENLY GAY HEALTH MISTER TALKS CONVERSN THERAPI, SURROGACY AND RELIGN
ISRAEL GETS FIRST GAY MISTER: OHANA APPOTED TERIM JTICE MISTER
Amir Ohana will be the untry’s first gay mister ever after Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu cid to appot him terim jtice move ahead of Thursday’s gay pri para official Prime Mister’s Office statement announcg the appotment emphasized Ohana’s profsnal qualifitns as “a lawyer who is very faiar wh the legal system, ” and his apprentichip the State’s Attorney’s Office Tel Aviv district.
”Blue and Whe MK Idan Roll, who is also gay, ngratulated Ohana and said he hoped the new mister would e the post to advance the stggle for equaly for the LGBT muny. A former mister past ernments, Ohana is the Knset’s first openly gay person to hold the role.
Ohana has prevly served as jtice mister and public secury mister, wh his elevatn to the former post 2019 makg him Israel’s first openly gay mister.
LIKUD’S AMIR OHANA BE ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY KNSET SPEAKER
Several of Likud’s far-right and ultra-Orthodox partners have exprsed homophobic posns, cludg returng now-banned nversn therapy, changg ernmental forms to say “mother” and “father” stead of the genr-ntral “parent, ” and nng on the platform of a “normal fay, ” the se of the openly anti-LGBTQ Noam party.
Uned Torah Judaism MKs Yzhak Goldknopf and Meir Posh, a mister and puty mister, rpectively, the new ernment, avert their gaze as Amir Ohana MK, who is gay, mak his first speech as Knset speaker, December 29, 2022 (Screenshot om footage by Ari Kelman, BeHadrei Hadarim, broadst on Channel 12; ed acrdance wh clse 27a of the Copyright Law). Ahead of the vote for speaker, Maoz asserted that recent reports about his party drawg up lists of gay media profsnals and “leftist” Jtice Mistry staff were no more than an attempt by the media to “fame, monize and shame” him.
ISRAEL HAS S FIRST GAY ERNMENT MISTER — NETANYAHU LOYALIST AMIR OHANA
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Jtice Mister Amir Ohana, Israel’s first openly gay mister, attends the annual Gay Pri para Jesalem on June 6, 2019. Ean Gzburg: Former Mayor of Raanana & Israel’s first openly gay mayor. Gzburg, the former mayor of Ra’anana, was Israel’s first openly gay mayor.
EAN GZBURG TO BEE ISRAEL'S THIRD GAY BET MISTER ON MONDAY
He will serve alongsi gay misters Itzik Shmuli, who left Labor, and Amir Ohana (Likud) morng’s bet meetg approved the Science and Technology portfol for Chili Tropper (Blue and Whe), the Higher Edutn Mistry for Yoav Galant (Likud), the Water Mistry for Yuval Stez (Likud) and the Social Equaly portfol for Michael Bon (Blue and Whe) Communitns portfol was held by Blue and Whe head Benny Gantz after he fired Yoaz Henl on December 16 when he left Blue and Whe for New Hope.
Dpe his relig background, durg the most recent electoral mpaign he said that gay people should “fully have all the civil rights a straight person Israel has, ” the Tim of Israel reported – though he also said that didn’t mean he would take actn to ensure legal equaly.
ISRAEL REACH RERD NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY LAWMAKERS
Israel swore another openly gay lawmaker on Monday, markg a rerd for the untry nsired a regnal pneer on LGBT rights, spe opposn om relig nservativ. Yorai Lahav-Hertzano om the opposn Yh Atid-Telem alliance beme the latt polician to jo the 120-seat Knset, brgg to six the number of openly gay lawmakers.
Five percent of Israeli lawmakers are now openly gay, the fourth-hight figure the world, acrdg to polil scientist Andrew Reynolds. Openly gay soldiers serve the ary, while Israel regniz same-sex marriag nducted abroad, and gay and lbian upl have surrogacy rights.
OHANA BE FIRST GAY KNSET SPEAKER AS NETANYAHU RETAK OFFICE
First openly gay mister. While Tel Aviv’s Gay Pri para ually draws huge crowds om around the world, the equivalent march nservative Jesalem is held unr a heavy police prence. Participants the annual Jesalem Gay Pri para place flowers at a memorial for Shira Banki, who was murred durg the para 2015, on June 6, 2019.
Annual Gay Pri events both ci have been nceled this month due to the ronavis panmic.
The day before last year’s para, Netanyahu appoted Israel’s first openly gay mister. Left-wg polician Itzik Shmuli, who is openly gay, also joed the ernment ranks, as mister for social affairs. They s alongsi Rafi Peretz, an Orthodox rabbi, who last year endorsed ntroversial therapy to nvert gay people to heterosexualy.
ISRAEL HAS S FIRST GAY ERNMENT MISTER. HE’S LOYAL TO NETANYAHU.
"The first gay Knset SpeakerFollowg a break early the afternoon, the Knset renvened for a vote to approve the new Knset Speaker, Likud MK Amir, who is the only openly gay Likud MK and who was Israel's first openly gay mister, thanked his fay his gural speech as speaker, mentng his hband Alon by his speech, Ohana strsed that the new ernment "will not harm a sgle child or a sgle fay, " an attempt to quiet public fears over possible harm to LGBT om some of the aln's haredi or far-right and fellow UTJ MK Moshe Gafni averted their gaze when Ohana spoke about his hband. (JTA) — Israel will have s first openly gay ernment mister. Ohana, who was jt appoted this untry’s first openly gay bet mister, was then a 24-year-old om a sert backwater makg his way Tel Aviv.
Ohana’s role the last mpaign, and the new one, was regnized Wednday when, after jt one term parliament, he tapulted through the party ranks to make history by beg jtice mister Israel’s terim new Knset has five openly gay members, a rerd. Ohana, the first openly gay lawmaker on the right, is uncharted terrory. The Ohanas’ social world was nservative, and their dty cy was far om the sexually liberal bubble of Tel Aviv; there weren’t many openly gay people around Beersheba 1991.
AMIR OHANA IS GAY AND RIGHT-WG. HOW FAR CAN HE GO ISRAEL?
Havg a gay son wasn’t somethg they’d planned. They’ve been together for 14 years — whout gettg married, bee the state don’t regnize gay marriag performed Israel, and there’s no civil marriage at all.
They have two children, David and Elah, born 2015 to a surrogate mother Klamath Falls, Ore., bee surrogacy is not legal for gay men the fall of 2011, Mr.
ISRAEL'S OPENLY GAY HEALTH MISTER TALKS CONVERSN THERAPI, SURROGACY AND RELIGN
)All those prent at the meetg were openly gay and right-wg. “I’m Jewish, Israeli, Mizrahi, gay, a Likudnik, a secury hawk, a liberal and a believer the ee market, ” Mr. ”However he’s fed, the new mister’s proximy to power mak him the most fluential force for gay rights parliament, even if what he n actually achieve remas to be first bill after enterg polics, an attempt to extend hate-crime legislatn to transgenr people, was blocked by ultra-Orthodox lawmakers.
The same prsure led the ernment to exclu gay men like him om new surrogacy legislatn. Lawmakers om the Shas party, for example, which is ultra-Orthodox and Mizrahi, have said the past that gays should be treated like the avian flu and that they were rponsible for natural disasters like earthquak. A Shas lawmaker, Rabbi Yigal Guetta, me unr fire 2017 for attendg his nephew’s gay weddg and was ultimately forced to rign — but he went unapologetilly to the weddg, a move impossible not long ago.