Much of Israel’s L.G.B.T.Q. muny feels threatened by the right-wg ernment and s judicial overhl plan — even wh a gay speaker of Parliament.
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- ISRAEL’S GAY PRI PARAS REVEAL JT HOW FAR THE NATN HAS STRAYED OM S BIBLIL FOUNDATNS
- OVER 250,000 REVELERS FLOOD TEL AVIV FOR ISRAEL’S BIGGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
- TEL AVIV, ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE MIDDLE EAST,’ WEL RETURN OF PRI CELEBRATN JUNE 8TH-12TH
ISRAEL’S GAY PRI PARAS REVEAL JT HOW FAR THE NATN HAS STRAYED OM S BIBLIL FOUNDATNS
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“The majory of the gay muny Israel is feelg very unsafe, ” said Hila Peer, the chairwoman of Aguda-The Associatn for LGBTQ Equaly Israel.
OVER 250,000 REVELERS FLOOD TEL AVIV FOR ISRAEL’S BIGGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
Police bolstered on pal's streets for annual event; 2 teens taed for puttg up posters agast event; anti-gay Lehava group monstrat agast participants * israel gay pride *
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.
TEL AVIV, ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE MIDDLE EAST,’ WEL RETURN OF PRI CELEBRATN JUNE 8TH-12TH
Israelis and visors celebrate eedom and tolerance at 20th annual event self-styled 'most gay-iendly cy' world * israel gay pride *
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.
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. 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. The plan has torn open longstandg societal divisns between those who want to prerve Israel’s liberal valu and those who seek to shift toward more relig Mister Benjam Netanyahu’s ernment is ma up of ultranatnalist and ultra-relig parti whose lears openly oppose homosexualy.