79% of Israelis back gay marriage or civil unns | The Tim of Israel

Contents:

• GAY ISRAELIS HOLD MASS WEDDG TO MPAIGN FOR SAME-SEX UNNS
• ISRAEL WON’T LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE. HERE’S WHY.
• ISRAEL'S MKS SURVEYED ON GAY MARRIAGE
• THE 843 THGS TO KNOW WHEN PLANNG A GAY JEWISH WEDDG ISRAEL
• RTERS CORRECTS ON GAY MARRIAGE ISRAEL
• 79% OF ISRAELIS BACK GAY MARRIAGE OR CIVIL UNNS

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

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. 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. It had all the trappgs, tradns and excement of a weddg, but gay marriage is not legal Israel.

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

Israel embrac gay tourists – even hosts a gay Pri – but lags behd when to gay rights.

Israel's Pri is a statn for gay travelers, but 's a Jewish state, and Pkas-Arad said the relig orthodox pose a hearty opposn.

Beg gay is "agast the Jewish law, " he said.

ISRAEL'S MKS SURVEYED ON GAY MARRIAGE

There's no civil unn – straight or gay. "In Tel Aviv, you have gay parti, you have a gay pubs and bars, " Shtern said. "But sometim, feels as if like the ernment is g Tel Aviv – or the gay muny as a like a pk wash.

Twenty-three gay upl have held an unofficial mass weddg Tel Aviv, walkg down the aisle and exchangg vows to highlight the untry’s discrimatn agast same-sex unns. ”The gay upl participated a mass weddg Tel Aviv to mand the right to same-sex marriage. Photograph: Od Balilty/APIsrael champns self as gay-iendly and will this month host s world-famo annual Gay Pri week.

However, rights for lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr people are severely rtricted by law and marriage is illegal the untry of 9 ln people, although weddgs performed abroad n be registered. Homophobia and transphobia are wispread among relig and nservative groups, cludg those ultra-Orthodox parti, a powerful polil factn the Israeli parliament, have rejected legislatn that affords equal rights, such as the cln of gay men surrogacy laws.

THE 843 THGS TO KNOW WHEN PLANNG A GAY JEWISH WEDDG ISRAEL

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. “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.

RTERS CORRECTS ON GAY MARRIAGE ISRAEL

2 percent of Israeli Arabs to have a homosexual uple as neighbours, cludg 68. 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.

79% OF ISRAELIS BACK GAY MARRIAGE OR CIVIL UNNS

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. As Pri Month is celebrated all over the world, Israeli cizens are once aga sharply remd that gay marriage is still not regnized by the state. The entirety of Yair Lapid's party, Yh Atid, stated that they are favor of gay marriage wh the exceptn of MK Elazar Stern who chose not to ment.