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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Gay Likud MK admits he doesn’t think upcoming coalition will improve LGBT rights
MK Amir Ohana, the first openly gay lawmaker for the Likud party, admits in an interview with Army Radio that he doesn’t foresee any change in LGBT rights in Israel in the upcoming 21st Knesset.
Committee chairman Amir Ohana at the Knesset, on July 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The governing coalition will include 16 ultra-Orthodox members and more religious Zionist MKs, which is likely to foil any attempt to improve LGBT rights.
“I would have wanted the coalition’s opinion to be different,” Ohana says.
