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ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

The claim: Israel is the only untry the Middle East to regnize same-sex marriageAs Amerins celebrate the progrs ma for LGBTQ+ rights durg Pri month, a misleadg claim about gay rights Israel is circulatg onle. “Would like to extend a big thank you to all the untri the Middle East that support gay marriage, ” reads a June 2 tweet wh an image that claims Israel is the only untry the regn to regnize same-sex claim has spread different forms on check:No evince Tim Tebow is wearg No.

Most Middle East untri do not regnize gay marriage at allIsrael’s regnn of same-sex marriag performed abroad distguish om other untri the regn. Consulate General of Israel Los Angel, accsed June 8, Israel Experience | Gay IsraelCouncil on Foreign Relatns, June 23, Same-Sex Marriage: Global ComparisonsBranni, accsed June 8, Middle EastThe Human Rights Campaign Foundatn, accsed June 8, Marriage Equaly Around the WorldHaaretz, June 21, 2020, Tel Aviv 'Challeng the Government' by Announcg Regnn of Civil PartnershipsThank you for supportg our journalism.

(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.

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“You have at least an tentn to legislate laws that are dire for the gay muny. 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. 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.

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