Israel is the gayt untry on earth | Yoni Leviatan | The Blogs

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• ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY
• ISRAEL: 'GAY NVERSN' THERAPY BAN BILL PASSED BY MPS
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY

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.

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.

LGBTQ Israelis are playg a ccial role the mountg anti-ernment protts, activatg a work that put some 100, 000 people the streets 2018 after Netanyahu voted agast a bill to allow gay upl to e surrogacy. Elements of the g aln led by the prime mister-elect Benjam Netanyahu have not hidn the fact that they are hostile to Paltians and LGBTQ+ Maoz, the lear of the extremist relig natnalist party Noam that helped Netanyahu’s bloc w, has said queer people are a “threat to the fay”, and that the greatt achievement women n make is to marry and raise is expected to head a new “natnal Jewish inty” thory wh powers over some school activi, cludg mory rights and genr many leftwg voters, the rise of a homophobic and ultra-relig ernment was not a surprise after four years of polil chaos and succsive electns triggered by Netanyahu’s rptn trial. Dpe ial aln negotiatn difficulti, is expected the new ernment will last a whole Rudner voted for the leftwg party Meretz, which failed to pass the electoral thrhold last month’s electn and is out of the Knset altogether, dilutg an already small leftwg 24-year-old tour gui, who intifi as gay, emigrated to Israel 2017 om the US and liv Jesalem.

ISRAEL: 'GAY NVERSN' THERAPY BAN BILL PASSED BY MPS

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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. 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.

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ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

The sea is betiful, 's a wonrful untry for high-tech, and they've ma a lot of progrs terms of gay rights, " says Sari Bashi, who is wh the Israeli human rights group Gisha, which advot on behalf of the Paltians. Image source, RtersImage ptn, The rights of LGBTQ people Israel are protected by a seri of lawsIsraeli MPs have taken steps to outlaw the practice of "gay nversn" therapy by psychologists - the first Middle East untry to do so. A bill passed s first stage parliament, after two parti the aln ernment joed the opposn to vote year, Israel's then-tn mister endorsed the therapy, triggerg a bill risks a polil crisis, wh relig parti unhappy at the ptn, "My sexualy is not a sickns": a gay man and a lbian's experienc of "gay nversn therapy" JordanAfter the vote, the ultra-Orthodox Uned Torah Judaism (UTJ), which is part of the agile natnal uny ernment, threatened to troduce bills which the centrist Blue and Whe - also a member of the ernment - would fd bill mt still pass two more readgs before be term "nversn therapy" refers to any form of treatment or psychotherapy which aims to change a person's sexual orientatn or to supprs a person's genr practice is wily opposed on logil, ethil and moral grounds.

Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu lled his remarks "unacceptable" has the most progrsive attu towards LGBTQ people the Middle East, spe opposn om some nservative sectns of are protected by anti-discrimatn laws, have adoptn and same-sex herance rights, and have been allowed to serve the ary sce untry has a rerd number of openly gay MPs and last year appoted s first openly gay on this story. Israel never prosecuted anyone unr the law agast sodomy sce the 1963 urt cisn; neverthels, s maximum penalty of 10 years prison created fear the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) muny. On the program, part of ETV’s Open Cards seri, homosexual teens and the mother of a homosexual boy told their stori to a teenage dience, followed by qutns and ments om the dience.