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Netanyahu vows to ‘not allow discrimination’ against LGBT Israelis or any other citizen
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Incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterates forcefully that he will not allow any discrimination against members of the LGBT community during his leadership, after comments from his coalition partners raise ire.
“We will not allow discrimination against the LGBT community or any harm to the rights of any citizens of Israel,” Netanyahu says in a video statement, after earlier issuing just a written statement criticizing Religious Zionism MK Orit Strock.
“In the country I will lead, there will not be a situation where anyone — gay, ultra-Orthodox, Arab or anything else — will enter a hotel and not receive service, or go to a doctor and not receive service. It didn’t happen in the 15 years of my tenure as prime minister and it won’t happen now.”
The Times of Israel Community.