Gay Israelis hold mass weddg to mpaign for same-sex unns | Israel | The Guardian

Contents:

• ISRAEL WON’T LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE. HERE’S WHY.
• GAY MARRIAGE
• RTERS CORRECTS ON GAY MARRIAGE ISRAEL
• GAY ISRAELIS HOLD MASS WEDDG TO MPAIGN FOR SAME-SEX UNNS
• ISRAEL'S MKS SURVEYED ON GAY MARRIAGE
• WI SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE AS ISRAEL CELEBRAT PRI
• 79% OF ISRAELIS BACK GAY MARRIAGE OR CIVIL UNNS

ISRAEL WON’T LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE. HERE’S WHY.

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. None of the relig bodi Israel regnize gay marriage, th same-sex upl nnot marry Israel.

However, a same-sex uple who married a untry that do regnize gay marriage n be registered as married wh the Israeli Misrad Hapnim. (JTA) — The mister holdg the untry’s purse strgs lls himself a “proud homophobe.

GAY MARRIAGE

“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. 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. 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.

RTERS CORRECTS ON GAY MARRIAGE ISRAEL

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. “I won’t stone gays.

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.

GAY ISRAELIS HOLD MASS WEDDG TO MPAIGN FOR SAME-SEX UNNS

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ISRAEL'S MKS SURVEYED ON GAY MARRIAGE

Nzan Horowz wanted to be the Middle East’s first openly gay mayor.

“A Gay Cy Derv a Gay Mayor, ” proclaimed an ad for ndidate Nzan Horowz durg Tel Aviv’s most recent mayoral electn October.

WI SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE AS ISRAEL CELEBRAT PRI

“One Vote That Sends Five Gays to the Council, ” said another, referrg to the Meretz Party list. In this ntt between challenger Horowz and popular cumbent Ron Huldai (which Huldai won), the ndidat were said to be tryg to “out-pk” each other, both “promisg to crease budgets for the gay muny and social servic for gay youth distrs, ” Ha’aretz’s Avshalom Halutz reported. As the Tel Aviv electn illtrat, gay Israelis have ma signifint legal and cultural stris throughout the last few s.

The ban on homosexual sodomy was repealed 1988; an ENDA-style LGBTQ employment-discrimatn ban passed 1992; and gays have been able to serve openly the ary sce 1993. Tel Aviv has bee somethg of a haven for gay Israelis, even playg host to one of the world’s largt Pri ftivals, blsed by Mayor Huldai and other natnal polil figur. 2 percent of Israeli Arabs to have a homosexual uple as neighbours, cludg 68.

79% OF ISRAELIS BACK GAY MARRIAGE OR CIVIL UNNS

That means a gay uple that weds , say, the Netherlands remas wed Israel. But that don’t mean a gay uple Tel Aviv n walk down to cy hall and procure a marriage license. For Israeli Jews, marriage policy is dictated by the Chief Rabbate, which is unr the exclive ntrol of the Orthodox—and firmly opposed to gay marriage.

Sce the untry has no civil marriage, gay upl seekg to marry wh the borrs of Israel are out of luck (as are any Jewish Israelis seekg a non-Orthodox marriage ceremony).

And Jewish Home’s posn on the matter is clear: “There’s not a chance we’ll allow civil unns for gay upl, ” a senr party official told Ha’aretz. Never md gay marriage, ’s very unlikely that even same-sex civil unns will be ma legal, at least durg the life of this current ernment. A law passed 2018 extend eligibily for surrogacy to sgle women, but sparked protts bee LGBTQ people were left ’s high urt led Febary 2020 that the rtrictns agast gay upl “disproportnately harmed the right to equaly and the right to parenthood of the groups and are illegal.