Israel's ernment is backg a public-relatns mpaign stylg the untry as a haven for the gay muny. Israel offers many legal protectns to gays a regn that is typilly hostile to them. But activists say the progrs me spe of — not bee of — the ernment
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ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY
LGBT Rights Israel: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * lgbt rights israel *
Gay Marriage⚭✖ Unregistered habatnCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✖ Sexual orientatn onlyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyDonatg Blood✔ Legal wh rtrictnsConversn Therapy✔ Banned. Homosexual activy Israel is LGBT people regardls of genr are allowed to engage such acts once old enough acrdg to the lawSame-sex marriage Israel? On March 22, 1988, the Knset repealed a Brish Mandate-era law banng sex between people of the same genr and thereby legalized homosexualy Israel.
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. The cy of Tel Aviv regniz unmarried upl, cludg gays and lbians, as fay uns and grants them disunts for municipal servic. In 1998, the IDF ceased to lk sexual orientatn to secury clearanc and rcd a standg orr that required mandg officers to report gay soldiers for evaluatn.
Steer had argued that the benefs are given to live- heterosexual partners and that, acrdg to the Danilowz precent, homosexual partners are equally entled to them.
Elements of Netanyahu-led aln have been openly hostile and rollg back of some gay laws is on agenda * lgbt rights israel *
The Steer cisn was more far-reachg than the Danilowz lg, which alt wh a private ntract; gay rights activists expect the former to have ramifitns for the entire public sector. The other se ncerned Edutn Mister Zevulun Hammer’s cisn to scuttle the broadst of an Edutnal Televisn program on homosexual teenagers.
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. In 1997, the Associatn for Civil Rights Israel (ACRI), joed by the Lbian Femist Communy and the Associatn for the Protectn of Individual Rights of Homosexuals, Lbians, and Bisexuals Israel, petned the High Court to overturn Hammer’s cisn.