For the first time ever, Tel Aviv did not take first place overall as Israel's most gay-iendly cy and stead dropped down to number five.
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- TERROR, VLENCE AND CONSTANT HIDG: GAY LIFE TEL AVIV BEFORE IT BEME AN LGBTQ MEC
- LGBTQ . REVEALS ISRAEL'S MOST GAY-IENDLY CI PRI MONTH POLL
TERROR, VLENCE AND CONSTANT HIDG: GAY LIFE TEL AVIV BEFORE IT BEME AN LGBTQ MEC
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(JTA) — The mister holdg the untry’s purse strgs lls himself a “proud homophobe. “The majory of the gay muny Israel is feelg very unsafe, ” said Hila Peer, the chairwoman of Aguda-The Associatn for LGBTQ Equaly Israel. “You have at least an tentn to legislate laws that are dire for the gay muny.
LGBTQ . REVEALS ISRAEL'S MOST GAY-IENDLY CI PRI MONTH POLL
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Netanyahu and others his aln say they are mted to protectg gay rights, but the volatile polil suatn means the future is hard to predict. Israel is known as a gay haven the Middle East, and Tel Aviv is equently ced as one of the most gay-iendly ci the world, wh a Pri para that draws hundreds of thoands of revelers om Israel and abroad. A rarely enforced ban on homosexual relatns was taken off the books 1988, and the army began allowg openly gay service members 1993 — the same year the U.
Armed forc adopted a policy permtg gay service members only if they remaed closeted.
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Dpe the legal protectns, LGBTQ Israelis have long faced opposn om wh the haredi Orthodox sector, where rabbis veigh agast homosexualy and policians have vowed to n the untry acrdg to Orthodox terpretatns of Jewish law. The Relig Znist Party, one of three the Relig Znist Bloc, is led by Bezalel Smotrich, who has lled himself a “proud homophobe” and has envisned Israel as a theocracy. He lled the ia of lettg medil provirs ny re to LGBTQ patients “unacceptable” and has appoted a close ally who is gay, Amir Ohana, as Knset speaker.
“A Sephardi or a tradnal Jew, do you thk he r about gays? “I’m a fascist homophobe, but I’m a man of my word, ” he said.