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 IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
Elements of Netanyahu-led aln have been openly hostile and rollg back of some gay laws is on agenda * israel gay community *
“The majory of the gay muny Israel is feelg very unsafe, ” said Hila Peer, the chairwoman of Aguda-The Associatn for LGBTQ Equaly Israel.
ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY
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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.
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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.