Police bolstered on pal's streets for annual event; 2 teens taed for puttg up posters agast event; anti-gay Lehava group monstrat agast participants
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- THOANDS NVERGE JESALEM FOR ANNUAL GAY PRI PARA
- JESALEM GAY PRI PARA, RABBI'S FUNERAL SET HOUR APART RAISE TENSNS, THORI ON HIGH ALERT
- JESALEM GAY PRI PARA
THOANDS NVERGE JESALEM FOR ANNUAL GAY PRI PARA
* jerusalem gay pride parade *
JERUSALEM -- Thoands of people on Thursday marched Jesalem's Pri para — an annual event that took place for the first time unr Israel’s new far-right ernment, which is stacked wh openly homophobic march the nservative cy is always tense and tightly secured by police, and has been wracked by vlence the past. Jesalem's march is typilly more subdued than the one gay-iendly Tel Aviv, where tens of thoands of revelers pour to the streets for a massive, multilored party. ”Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu's ernment is ma up of ultranatnalist and ultra-relig parti who openly oppose homosexualy, although the Israeli lear has promised to protect LGBTQ+ rights and a member of his party who is gay is the Knset speaker.
JESALEM GAY PRI PARA, RABBI'S FUNERAL SET HOUR APART RAISE TENSNS, THORI ON HIGH ALERT
The untry's Fance Mister Bezalel Smotrich has the past clared he was a “proud homophobe. "There are people who are very much homophobic and very much transphobic who are the ernment today and hold posns of power and budget and are workg agast actually right now, ” she rried a flag that read: “There is no pri whout mocracy.
JESALEM GAY PRI PARA
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