Thoands nverge Jesalem for annual gay pri para - The Jesalem Post

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• GAY RIGHTS: JESALEM CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF PRI MARCH
• IN PHOTOS: THOANDS MARCH JESALEM GAY PRI PARA
• OVER 25,000 MARCH JESALEM GAY PRI PARA UNR STRGENT SECURY
• TEEN’S MURR LOOMS OVER JESALEM GAY PRI PARA
• JESALEM TO HOST ISRAEL’S MA GAY PRI PARA — REPORT
• THE TRIUMPH OF JESALEM'S GAY PRI PARA
• THOANDS NVERGE JESALEM FOR ANNUAL GAY PRI PARA
• HUNDREDS OF POLICE OFFICERS TO BE PLOYED FOR JESALEM GAY PRI PARA
• CATEGORY:2016 JESALEM GAY PRI
• LEADG ZNIST RABBIS PROTT 'ABOMATN' OF JESALEM GAY PRI PARA
• MAN WHO ATTACKED JESALEM GAY PRI LAST YEAR ACCED OF H PLOT

GAY RIGHTS: JESALEM CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF PRI MARCH

Amid heavy secury, around 25, 000 people gathered Jesalem for the 15th annual gay pri para on Thursday. Father of Sla Teen at J'lem Pri Para: We Mt Fight for Tolerance 25, 000 March Jesalem's Gay Pri Para I'm a Straight, Orthodox Jew, Marchg Jesalem's Pri Para The march, far more somber than the boistero Tel Aviv para June, highlighted the challeng the LGBT muny Israel has faced recent years.

IN PHOTOS: THOANDS MARCH JESALEM GAY PRI PARA

Jesalem gay pri para participants walk past a relig poster, July 21, 2016. Cred: Anna LoshkOver 25, 000 march Jesalem gay pri para.

Cred: Anna Loshk"We remember Shira wh love" - over 25, 000 march Jesalem gay pri para.

Cred: Anna LoshkZnist Unn lear MK Isaac Herzog at Jesalem gay pri para. Cred: Anna LoshkMemorial for Shira Banki, an Israeli teen sla 2015's Jesalem gay pri para, at 2016's para, attend by over 25, 000. Cred: Anna LoshkPolice officers and participants s at the ncln of the Jesalem gay pri para, which was attend by over 25, 000.

OVER 25,000 MARCH JESALEM GAY PRI PARA UNR STRGENT SECURY

July 21, Anna LoshkA member of the secury forc looks over the crowd at the ncln of the Jesalem gay pri para, which was attend by over 25, 000.

In the NewsIsrael Apartheid Thomas FriedmanSdi - IsraelSmotrichIsraeli SettlersBen-GvirIsrael - ProttJewish Spy - IranAIPACMeteor ShowerHaaretz | Israel NewsPrime mister sends msage of equaly, tolerance Facebook vio addrs to LGBT muny as gay pri para menc 21, 2016People march the Jesalem gay pri para, July 21, Thomas Coex, AFPJul 21, 2016Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu addrsed the LGBT muny and participants Jesalem's gay pri para a vio msage Thursday, sayg that they are an separable part of Israeli society and mt be treated wh rpect and equaly. " Netanyahu also mentned Shira Banki, who was murred at Jesalem's gay pri para last year.

"The participants the gay pri para will march for one prciple: All human begs are equal, all human begs were created the image of God, all human begs, male and female, have the right to live their liv along their own path wh digny and safety. " Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu a vio addrs to the LGBT muny durg Jesalem's gay pri Screenshot/FacebookJesalem’s gay pri para kicked off on Thursday eveng unr massive secury wh 2, 000 police officers on hand. Jesalem’s gay pri para kicked off on Thursday eveng unr massive secury wh 25, 000 participants and 2, 000 police officers on hand the wake of a murro rampage by an ultra-Orthodox assailant at last year’s para.

TEEN’S MURR LOOMS OVER JESALEM GAY PRI PARA

Yishai Schlissel, who is servg a life sentence for stabbg a marcher to ath at last year's gay pri para Jesalem, has had further rtrictns placed on him prison on spicn that he was planng an attack on this year's para.

JESALEM TO HOST ISRAEL’S MA GAY PRI PARA — REPORT

Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu addrsed the LGBT muny and participants Jesalem's gay pri para a vio msage Thursday, sayg that they are an separable part of Israeli society and mt be treated wh rpect and equaly. Barkat, whose municipal aln clus several Orthodox parti, touted his rerd of workg wh the gay muny and strsed that the marchers have every right to march. Public Secury Mister Gilad Erdan, who attend the march and is part of Netanyahu's Likud party, addrsed a number of homophobic ments ma as of late by proment Israeli rabbis.

6 stabbed at Jesalem gay pri para.

THE TRIUMPH OF JESALEM'S GAY PRI PARA

A tragic and unfettable moment hangs over this year’s Gay Pri Para Jesalem. Schlissel, 40, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, had jt been released om prison for stabbg marchers at Jesalem’s Gay Pri para a before that. “We learned the lsons om last year’s gay para, ” said Jesalem District Police Spokman Doron Ben-Amo.

Last week, Rabbi Yigal Levste, the founr of a pre-ary amy the Wt Bank, repeatedly referred to gays as “perverts” a speech Jesalem.

THOANDS NVERGE JESALEM FOR ANNUAL GAY PRI PARA

Israel’s ma gay pri para will reportedly take place this year Jesalem, rather than Tel Aviv where is tradnally held.

Although Jesalem is both Israel’s pal and s largt cy, s gay pri para is much smaller than then one Tel Aviv, which has a large LGBT muny and pris self on s tolerant environment. The iative to hold the untry’s ma gay pri para Jesalem this year was phed for by the Jesalem Open Hoe for Pri and Tolerance orr to prott for equal rights for the LGBT muny, Channel 2 reported.

HUNDREDS OF POLICE OFFICERS TO BE PLOYED FOR JESALEM GAY PRI PARA

About 200, 000 people participate at the annual Gay Pri Para Tel Aviv, on June 3, 2016. Durg the 2015 gay pri para Jesalem, 16-year-old Shira Banki was murred and several others jured by Yishai Schlissel. 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.

CATEGORY:2016 JESALEM GAY PRI

Thoands of people take part the annual Gay Pri Para Jesalem, June 3, 2021. The annual event is a highlight for the cy’s vibrant LGBT muny, which is often overshadowed by Tel Aviv’s gay-iendly persona and bet by relig and polil tensns ever-prent the pal. As thoands filled the pal’s streets, a small monstratn prottg the para was held by members of the far-right and anti-gay Lehava anizatn.

Right wg activists monstrate agast the annual Gay Pri para Jesalem, on June 3, 2021.

People at the Gay Pri Para Jesalem on June 3, 2021, look at a photo of Shira Banki, murred by an ultra-Orthodox extremist at the march 2015. I was shocked to the pths of my soul by this wild cement, by the famatn agast the gay muny, the profani, and the ath threats, " said Knset speaker add that he me to the march to "stand up agast this evil spir and say clearly and unequivolly as the Speaker of the Knset that reprents the entire public Israel: LGBTQ people are equal cizens and serve full and equal rights.

LEADG ZNIST RABBIS PROTT 'ABOMATN' OF JESALEM GAY PRI PARA

"Horowz poted to reforms ma surrogacy to allow same-sex upl and sgle fathers to have children through the procs, regulatns issued agast nversn therapy and the approval of allowg gay men to donate blood. Some 25, 000 Israelis, cludg dozens of Knset members, marched Jesalem’s Gay Pri Para on July 21. At the largt gay pri para that Jesalem has ever seen, was a fortg fal note after a very harsh week for the LGBTQ muny.

It all began wh a July 13 speech by Rabbi Yigal Levenste, the head of the pre-ary service yhiva  the settlement of Eli, which he lled gays and lbians “perverts. It was sudnly obv that spe the enormo progrs that Israel’s gay muny has ma over the past few years the stggle for equal rights, there is still a long way to go. He said that a young gay yhiva stunt had tried to m suici followg siar ments Levenste ma  the past.

Over the past few years, some policians, particularly om the mastream secular parti, have “disvered” the gay muny and have sought ways to reach out to , not least for basic polil and electoral reasons.

MAN WHO ATTACKED JESALEM GAY PRI LAST YEAR ACCED OF H PLOT

Tel Aviv’s Gay Pri Para has bee a mec for policians rangg om Culture Mister Miri Regev to Yh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid. The parti have urted the LGBTQ muny and electorate, and many of them have tablished gay groups wh their anizatns.

Even Amir Ohana, Likud's only openly gay Knset member, disappoted his muny by votg agast such legislatn bee of his overridg mment to aln disciple. Yet, even if the muny failed to obta legislatn sought, when to mood and attu, policians have embraced the gay muny, and this is important. Yishai didn't have a send thought, and he certaly didn’t apologize, when 2006 he said an terview to the Knset Channel, “Gays and lbians are sick people who, until jt a few years ago, were exempted om ary service bee of .