ADDED ON: 09/20/2019
FEWER FEMALE, LGBT MEMBERS IN NEW KNESSET
The 22nd Knesset will have eight new members and nine MKs returning after a hiatus when it is inaugurated on October 3, a final count of 4,440,141 votes indicated. The previous Knesset…
Israel
ADDED ON: 08/26/2019
Israeli Arabs indicted for attempted honor killing of gay teen
Three Israeli Arab men from northern Israel were indicted in Tel Aviv Sunday in connection with the stabbing of a gay teenager in Tel Aviv last month, in what was an apparent…
ADDED ON: 08/20/2019
PA BANS LGBTQ ACTIVITIES IN WEST BANK
The Palestinian Authority banned members of the Palestinian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community from carrying out any activities in the West Bank. The ban came after the grassroots group…
ADDED ON: 08/14/2019
Far-right anti-gay party links LGBT, Reform Jews to Nazis
A new campaign video by the Noam party, which went viral on Tuesday evening among Hebrew-speaking social media users, compares Reform Jews, left-wing activists and gay rights advocates to Nazis and Palestinian…
ADDED ON: 08/08/2019
IDF moves to expand integration of transgender troops
Israel's army is taking into account a slow but steady growth in number of transgender soldiers going through sex change processes before or during their military service, and is making more effort…
ADDED ON: 08/02/2019
Police arrest 3rd suspect in Arab LGBT youth’s stabbing
Police on Thursday arrested a third suspect in a stabbing last Friday in Tel Aviv that left an LGBT teen from the Arab town of Tamra seriously wounded. The two main suspects,…
ADDED ON: 07/22/2019
CONVERSION THERAPY BECOMES KEY TO ELECTIONS
When Bayit Yehudi leader Rafi Peretz apologized for speaking in favor of conversion therapy for the LGBT community, he might have thought he had put the issue to rest. But it is…
ADDED ON: 07/19/2019
CONVERSION THERAPY CAN KILL: RELIGIOUS LGBT COMMUNITY MEMBERS SPEAK OUT
A 20-year-old religious Zionist yeshiva student from Jerusalem, who asked to remain anonymous, said he wanted to cry when he heard Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz say last week that he recommends…
ADDED ON: 07/15/2019
HUNDREDS PROTEST IN TEL AVIV AFTER ISRAELI EDUCATION MINISTER PRAISES GAY CONVERSION THERAPY
LGBT activists in Israel are calling for the resignation of Education Minister Rafi Peretz after he claimed gay conversion therapy could work. "I think it's possible," Peretz, an orthodox rabbi and leading…
ADDED ON: 06/21/2019
Israeli city Raanana holds its first gay pride parade
The central Israeli bedroom community of Raanana held its first Pride march. Up to 3,000 people took part in the parade in the city of some 80,000 residents that is about one-quarter…
ADDED ON: 06/17/2019
Male couple refused entry to restaurant ‘because a couple is a man and woman’
A male couple were told they couldn’t dine at a restaurant in the northern city of Nazareth Illit because the special event was reserved for families and couples, and a couple had…
ADDED ON: 06/09/2019
Outcry after police drug raid on Tel Aviv gay club ahead of Pride week
Police in Tel Aviv raided a gay club on Friday night and arrested the owner and another worker after drugs were found on the premises. Fourteen other individuals were briefly detained for…
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