Israel Asks For Extensn To Rethk Gay Adoptn Rul

Contents:

• GAY ADOPTN
• COURT GIV ERNMENT 2 MONTHS TO REASSS GAY ADOPTN POLICY
• GOVERNMENT WILL NOT ALLOW GAY UPL TO ADOPT ISRAEL
• STATE GO CIRCL OVER WHETHER OPPOS GAY ADOPTN AND WHY
• SOCIAL SERVIC MISTRY SIGNALS HIGH COURT OF MOVE FAVORG GAY ADOPTN
• SUPREME COURT GIV ISRAEL TWO MONTHS TO RETHK GAY ADOPTN POLICY
• HIGH COURT MAPS OUT MIDDLE GROUND ON GAY ADOPTN
• GAY ISRAEL

GAY ADOPTN

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. 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.

The Islamist Ra’am party oppos gay rights, while Health Mister Nzan Horowz — a member of a leftist party the aln — is openly gay. (JTA) — The mister holdg the untry’s purse strgs lls himself a “proud homophobe.

COURT GIV ERNMENT 2 MONTHS TO REASSS GAY ADOPTN POLICY

“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.

GOVERNMENT WILL NOT ALLOW GAY UPL TO ADOPT ISRAEL

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. 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. ” Genr: Male Sexual inty: Ido and Michael are gay New fay: Surrogate parenthood Occupatn: Ido: “Mician, wrer, poser and sger and a third album will be released soon. ' It Hurts When You're All Alone the World A Young Gay Paltian Sneaks Into Israel.

STATE GO CIRCL OVER WHETHER OPPOS GAY ADOPTN AND WHY

Sce she beme iends wh , she herself ref to remarry until gay marriage is legal Israel. ” Sexual inty: Arnon and Gidi are gay, Roni is straight.

Co-parentg is the most effective way to get around the obstacl and discrimatn that exists agast gays when to parentg. I preferred a gay partner bee I thought would be a ls plited relatnship.

All unmarried upl, whether they are gay or straight, experience difficulti. ” Sexual inty: Yonatan and Daniel are gay. ” Yonatan: 10 The Chir-Teran fay Members: Ian (50, right), Daniel (51), Eli (send om left, 19), Yona (17), Tamar (15) The Chir-Teran Mihel LianiRince: Kibbutz Hanaton Genr: Daniel, Ian, Eli and Yona: Male; Tamar: Female Sexual inty: Ian and Daniel are gay.

SOCIAL SERVIC MISTRY SIGNALS HIGH COURT OF MOVE FAVORG GAY ADOPTN

Eli, their elst son, is also gay. Eli: “I’ve always felt gay but only said outright at the age of 14-15. The law was already equal for gays.

Amir Ohana, the first openly gay Likud lawmaker and a gay rights activist, said Tuday that he would not vote wh the ernment aln until the remendatn opposed to same-sex upl adoptg is changed.

SUPREME COURT GIV ISRAEL TWO MONTHS TO RETHK GAY ADOPTN POLICY

The urt petn regardg adoptn by same-sex and mon-law upl was filed by the Associatn of Israeli Gay Fathers, wh the Israel Relig Actn Center of the Reform Movement, agast the Welfare Mistry and the attorney general. Rpondg to urt petn, state c ‘difficulti’ for the child; lawmakers acce ernment of homophobia. The ernment announced on Sunday that there are no tentns to change the law and allow gay upl to adopt Israel.

HIGH COURT MAPS OUT MIDDLE GROUND ON GAY ADOPTN

Meretz’s Michal Roz, who heads the Knset’s LGBT lobby, Yael German of Yh Atid, Merav Michaeli of the Znist Unn and Kulanu’s Merav Ben Ari said a statement that the cisn was homophobic and showed the ernment’s cynil e of the homosexual muny. “This is a foolish and discrimatory cisn that is acpanied by unprecented homophobia, ” they said. “The Israeli ernment is aga abandong the gay muny and this highlights ernment’s cynil e of the muny: In English they boast about [beg a gay-iendly untry], but Hebrew they ny basic rights.

While gay upl n’t adopt Israel, they equently travel overseas to adopt children.

The state seemed to swg back and forth on Monday over s posn on gay adoptn, a day after filg a legal brief wh the High Court of Jtice which opposed was still unclear by the end of the day what the Labor and Social Servic Mistry and Jtice Mistry’s real posns are on the issue, and why they seemed to be alterg them by the a brief submted on Sunday on behalf of the ernment, the Jtice Mistry said opposed the Israel Relig Actn Center’s petn to perm gay upl to adopt, on two ma first was no secret. Acrdgly, the Jtice Mistry said that the issue mt be ironed out by the Knset as part of a wi public bate over the broar issu of gay marriage and gay then the Jtice Mistry add an unexpected reason to oppose.

GAY ISRAEL

It reprented to the urt that the Social Servic Mistry, which has primary rponsibily for adoptn issu, viewed adoptn by a gay uple as imposg addnal difficulti on the child and potentially hamperg the succs of the is standard for the Jtice Mistry to file and argue policy on behalf of the other mistri, once those mistri nvey their posns to the attorney-general.

Cononted by The Jesalem Post to expla s backpedalg om s posn prented to the High Court by the Jtice Mistry and to clarify why this antigay adoptn posn was prented if the Social Servic Mistry do not believe , the Social Servic Mistry rpond wh a third third statement said that “the policy of the office remas wh no change, ” seemg to nfirm that stood by s earlier antigay adoptn posn submted to the High statement aga emphasized that the general reforms should be the foc, and that “only after their implementatn should the legislative branch nsir the tert of other groups, ” prumably referrg to gay Social Servic Mistry did not rpond to further quiri om the Post to expla the seemg back-and-forth swg s view of the issue. Likewise, the Jtice Mistry did not rpond to quiri om the Post about whether had wrten that the Social Servic Mistry was agast gay adoptn whout that mistry’s approval, why that would have been, and if not, why the Social Servic Mistry was Hoffman, director of the Israel Relig Actn Center, told the Post on Monday, “The ernment should not say is the profsnal opn of social welfare experts.