Israel
- middle-east
-
8 May 2013Gay Israeli MP Nitzan Horowitz to run for mayor of Tel Aviv + Gay Israeli MP Nitzan Horowitz has formally announced his intention to run for mayor of Tel Aviv. -
10 April 2013Video: Israeli gay couple in YouTube plea for help to start a family 4 A gay couple in Israel have started a campaign, asking for help to start a family after spending their entire savings on several failed surrogacy and adoption attempts, as Israel forbids surrogacy for gay couples. -
10 April 2013Anti-gay US-born Israeli terrorist jailed for killing two Palestinians 7 A US-born West Bank settler, who previously suggested Molotov cocktails should be used at those taking part in a gay pride event, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of two Palestinians. -
19 March 2013Video: Activists launch campaign against gay conversion therapy in Israel’s Orthodox Jewish neighbourhoods 4 Activists have put up anti-gay conversion therapy posters in some of Israel's most religious neighbourhoods. -
19 February 2013Israel: HIV cases among gay men up 55% since 2005 3 Figure show the number of gay men become HIV-positive in Israel has increased by 55% since 2005. -
9 January 2013Senior Rabbi: Gay people are ‘unfortunate’ but public must rise above ‘aggressive’ attitude to them 32 A top Religious Zionism rabbi has said that he thought gay people were treated too "aggressively" by religious society, but did describe them as "unfortunate". -
4 January 2013Gay Israeli MP conducts unofficial same-sex marriage ceremonies outside Rabbinic Court 10 Gay Israeli member of the Israeli Parliament or Knesset, Nitzan Horowitz has conducted three unofficial same-sex wedding ceremonies in front of the rabbinical court. -
2 January 2013Israel: Lesbian teenager attacked with stones in homophobic assault 7 A teenage lesbian has been reportedly attacked by a group of ultra-Orthodox students in central Israel.
-
26 December 2012Israel: Party leader calls on state to stop recognising same-sex marriages 14 Naftali Bennett, the chairman of a minor Israeli party, The Jewish Home (Habayit Hayehudi) has said that Israel should stop recognising same-sex marriages and that he joked about a gay solider in his army unit "in good fun". -
18 December 2012Rabbi: Bans gay teachers, says they are ‘perverts’ 36 A prominent Rabbi has said that people seeking private lessons, especially for their children, are not allowed to employ "perverted" gay teachers, "evil" atheists. -
3 December 2012Israel grants first divorce to gay married couple 11 For the first time, an Israeli court has granted the divorce of a gay couple, a move that may have widespread ramifications across the country. -
5 October 2012Comment: Equal marriage is a test for my Jewish Orthodox faith 117 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, LGBT campaigner Oliver Kasin talks of how his Orthodox Jewish faith has created a personal conflict due to his sexuality. -
21 September 2012Israel: Lesbian couple awarded payout in landmark ruling 9 An Israeli lesbian couple is celebrating after a judge ruled that a wedding hall could not reject their custom.
-
7 September 2012Israel: High rates of suicide among country’s LGBT youth 13 New research published this week in Israel has examined suicide rates among LGBT youth in the country. -
5 September 2012Comment: Let me tell you all about ‘pinkwashing’ 68 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk university student and LGBT campaigner Gary Spedding warns of the dangers of separating LGBT rights from human rights when profiling individual countries. -
22 June 2012Israeli politician criticised over further anti-gay comments 35 Israeli politician Anastasia Michaeli has further attacked Israel's LGBT community amid wide-ranging condemnation and critique. -
19 June 2012Israeli politician: Army must not enlist gays 27 In an interview broadcasted yesterday in the parliamentary Knesset Channel, Member of Knesset Uri Ariel from the right-wing National Union party said that he is against the Israeli army's policy of enlisting LGBT people. -
13 June 2012Israel military accused of publishing a ‘misleading’ pro-gay photo 13 A photograph uploaded by Israel's military on to its Facebook page, to celebrate its pro-gay stance, has been accused of being doctored by a local newspaper. -
8 June 2012In Photos: Tel Aviv Pride 2012 247 Tel Aviv today celebrated the largest pride in the Middle East with more than 100,000 people lining the streets and partying on the beach. -
18 May 2012New York mural compares gay rights in Israel to its neighbours 83 A mural in New York's West Village has provoked controversy by depicting gay rights in Israel and comparing it to the status of LGBT people in the countries that neighbour and surround it.
