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Added on: 02/08/2022

Israel to open first LGBT shelter for Arab youth

02/05/2022

Israel is set to open its first shelter designated for LGBT Arab Israeli youth, in a move hailed as “historic” by one of the lawmakers who led…

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Added on: 01/22/2022

Israel’s LGBT+ community faces up to its ‘Me Too’ moment as sexual abuse survivors break silence

1/21/22

In June 2021, gay rights activist Omri Feinstein from Israel asked queer people on Instagram to share their stories of sexual harassment and assault – and he…

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Added on: 01/04/2022

Israel opens surrogacy to same-sex couples, single fathers, transgender people.

01/04/2022

Israel announced on Tuesday that the country will begin allowing same-sex couples, single fathers and transgender individuals to pursue parental surrogacy. The news was delivered by Israeli…

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Added on: 12/21/2021

‘You’ll be destroyed’: LGBTQ Israelis receive hate texts allegedly sent by rabbi

12/20/2021

Thousands of members of Israel’s LGBTQ community have recently received disturbing hateful text messages, which were allegedly sent by a yeshiva rabbi, police revealed Monday. The Aguda…

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Added on: 11/17/2021

Israeli Blood Drives Drop LGBTQ-friendly Wording Amid Pressure From Religious Groups

11/16/2021

Israel’s Magen David Adom blood bank will restore the original wording of its forms for blood donors, after pressure from religious groups over the use of gender-neutral…

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Added on: 11/15/2021

LGBTQ+ youth violently attacked in Jerusalem on way to trans conference

11/14/2021

A group of LGBTQ+ youth were violently attacked near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem on Friday, while they were on their way to a conference on transgender…

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Added on: 11/10/2021

LGBTQ+ organizations launch plan to combat sexual abuse

11/09/2021

After a series of sexual assault and misconduct allegations against gay TV personality Gal Uchovsky and activist Etai Pinkas-Arad, the Agudah-The Association for LGBTQ+ Equality in Israel…

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Added on: 11/01/2021

Hackers threaten to out Israeli LGBTQ dating site users

10/31/2021

A hacking group calling itself Black Shadow threatened Sunday to reveal personal details of a million users of Israeli’s leading LGBTQ dating site, an attack some cyber…

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Added on: 09/15/2021

LGBTQ+ Agudah hosts Polish chief rabbi to begin new project for Diaspora

09/13/2021

The Agudah – The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel has launched a new plan to help LGBTQ+ Jews in the Diaspora and olim to Israel, hosting…

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Added on: 08/24/2021

Israel Will Now Let Gay Men Donate Blood

08/23/2021

Israel has ended a restriction on blood donation that effectively prohibited gay men from donating blood. Until now, Israel had prohibited any man who had had same-sex…

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Added on: 07/12/2021

Pride Event in Israeli Settlement Draws Opposition From Multiple Directions

07/11/2021

An LGBTQ Pride event in Ariel on Thursday marked one of the first such events in an Israeli settlement. The event was the initiative of 26-year-old Gal…

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Added on: 07/11/2021

Israel’s Supreme Court rules in favour of same-sex couple surrogacy rights

7/11/21

Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday ruled that current legal restrictions barring same-sex couples from becoming parents through surrogacy were unlawful and must be lifted within six months….

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Added on: 06/28/2021

Israel’s ‘First Lesbians.’ It Hurts When You’re All Alone in the World

06/27/2021

For a long time Hana Klein thought she was the only lesbian in Israel, and maybe in the whole world. She was born in 1951, grew up…

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Added on: 06/21/2021

Israel’s Foreign Ministry waves LGBTQ Pride flag for first time

06/21/2021

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid instructed his ministry to raise an LGBT pride flag outside its Jerusalem headquarters in honor of Pride Month for the first time on…

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Added on: 06/04/2021

Thousands join Jerusalem Pride march in call for LGBT rights

06/03/2021

Thousands of people marched through Jerusalem on Thursday in the annual Pride parade, celebrating LGBTQ rights in the conservative city amid heavy police security. Pride events in…

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Added on: 05/09/2021

Trans men mocked and denied entry to Egypt by border guards because they ‘do not look female’

5/8/21

Or Mizan and Titi Katan, both from Haifa, Israel, were travelling to Egypt for a five-day holiday in the Ras a-Satan resort in the Sinai peninsula when…

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Added on: 05/04/2021

Eitan Ginzburg to become Israel’s third gay cabinet minister on Monday

05/03/2021

Israel has a record three cabinet ministers from the LGBT community after Blue and White faction chairman Eitan Ginzburg was sworn in as communications minister in the…

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Added on: 04/26/2021

Sagi Berman to come out as Israeli top-flight soccer’s first transgender referee

04/24/2021

Israeli Premier League soccer referee Sagi Berman will come out publicly as transgender at a Tuesday press conference. She is the league’s first-ever transgender referee. Berman, 27,…

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Added on: 04/22/2021

Hate sign put up against lesbian kindergarten teacher in Be’er Ya’acov

04/21/2021

A sign which says “[this kindergarten] is run by lesbians” was hung on a short railing near Moatza square in Be’er Ya’acov on Wednesday, as part of…

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Added on: 04/07/2021

Israel activists protest rising influence of anti-gay lawmakers

04/06/2021

Hundreds of people demonstrated in Jerusalem on Tuesday against a group of newly elected Israeli lawmakers who oppose gay rights, in a Middle Eastern country seen as…

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Added on: 03/29/2021

Israel Election: The anti-LGBTQ Lawmaker Who May Help Form Netanyahu’s Coalition

03/28/2021

Israeli election results came as surprise to the far-right Religious Zionism party. The party, which is composed of three lists, ended up receiving six Knesset seats after…

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Added on: 03/26/2021

Israel Elections: What is the Religious Zionist Party’s agenda?

03/25/2021

The Knesset debut of the ultra-nationalist Religious Zionist Party (RZP), which includes the far-right Kahanist Otzma Yehudit Party and the anti-LGBT Noam Party, has caused not a…

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Added on: 03/16/2021

Israel Elections: Voters must take stock of LGBTQ-phobia in parties

03/14/2021

Fighting for its political survival, with the polls pointing to it precariously hovering around the 3.25% electoral threshold, the last thing Meretz needed last week was for…

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Added on: 03/09/2021

Meretz Candidate Under Fire for Flip-flopping on LGBTQ Rights Ahead of Election

03/09/2021

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, the No. 4 candidate on the Meretz list, said in an interview in Arabic that she would abstain on a bill prohibiting so-called “conversion…

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Added on: 03/08/2021

Israeli Right-Wing Parties Court Gay Votes

03/07/2021

With Israel’s next election just three weeks away, the various parties are looking for new sources of votes in order to avoid the kind of political deadlock…

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Added on: 02/24/2021

Homophobia soared in Israel amid coronavirus lockdowns

02/23/2021

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Homophobia and transphobia surged by 27% in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic, as lockdowns trapped gay and transgender people at home with…

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Added on: 02/23/2021

Netanyahu, long a supporter of LGBTQ rights, courts homophobes and racists in bid to cling to power

02/22/2021

Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN)On the smorgasbord of Israeli politics there’s a democratic advantage in offering something for everyone. But when elections here are finely balanced, voters are…

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Added on: 01/24/2021

LGBT group head aims to be Knesset’s first open lesbian

01/24/2021

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai announced on Sunday that one of the candidates of his Israelis Party would be Hila Pe’er, the chairwoman of Aguda, the Association…

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Added on: 01/13/2021

Popular rabbi warns followers COVID vaccine ‘could make you gay’

01/11/2021

A popular rabbi urged his followers not to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, warning them that doing so, it might “turn them” into homosexuals. Rabbi Daniel Asor’s…

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Added on: 11/25/2020

Israel’s Gantz announces major step for LGBTQ rights

11/23/2020

Israel’s gay community recorded one of the greatest achievements of its long struggle for equal rights on Nov. 19 when Defense Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Benny…