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Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on February 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 23, 2024, 7:21 pm
Far-right minister slammed for seeming to equate same-sex marriage with incest
After Knesset interviewer protests ‘unpleasant’ suggestion, Yitzhak Wasserlauf clarifies he meant love is not a justification
By ToI Staff
The late Sagi Golan who was killed in Be'eri on October 7, 2023. (Facebook screenshot)
October 23, 2023, 3:26 pm
Maj. Sagi Golan, 30: Killed 13 days before wedding to his boyfriend
Killed fighting Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7
By ToI Staff
A woman at the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2022, holds up a sign with the biblical phrase 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 1, 2023, 9:01 am
Gay and Orthodox: Book charts the rise of a once unthinkable dual identity in Israel
‘Queer Judaism,’ a new work from academic Orit Avishai, explores the rapid transformation over just two decades of the visibility and activism of LGBTQ religious Jews
By Amy Spiro
Guy (left) and Matan, the first gay couple to appear on Israel's 'Married at First Sight' reality show. (Denis Butnaru/Keshet)
May 23, 2022, 2:48 pm
When reality TV meets the reality of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate
Israel’s ‘Married at First Sight’ features its first same-sex couple, dating show ‘New Love’ includes a woman whose mother isn’t Jewish; all are unable to wed in the Jewish state
By Amy Spiro
Gil Yehoshua (right) and his spouse, Michael, with their four children (Rafi Koch)
January 19, 2020, 6:20 am
Widowed LGBT Israelis seek standard spousal benefits, but red tape haunts them
Forced to wage an uphill battle to receive standard compensation, bereaved spouses shoulder a burden of proof from which straight couples are exempt, says rights attorney
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
High school students, protesting against Education Minister Rafi Peretz who appeared to call same-sex marriage unnatural, seen during a demonstration at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on January 15, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 15, 2020, 1:12 pm
Thousands of teens protest education minister’s remarks about LGBT couples
Tel Aviv rally by high school students under banner ‘Demanding Change’ criticizes Rafi Peretz for saying a ‘normal family is a man and a woman’
By ToI Staff
Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 22, 2019, 8:48 pm
Liberman reaches out to LGBTQ community after homophobic comments surface
Video of 2013 meeting with hardline Jerusalem Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach sees the Yisrael Beytenu leader seemingly agreeing to help stop gay pride marches in the capital
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference of his Likud party in Ramat Gan, March 4, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 27, 2019, 4:50 am
Everybody complains about Israel’s electoral system. But it works
Especially after this year’s political shenanigans, the chaotic, tribal electoral system gets a bad rap; it is also the source of Israel’s strength, solidarity and democracy
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Illustrative. Gay pride rainbow Star of David sticker. (iStock)
September 15, 2018, 1:29 am
Beer bottle thrown at guests attending gay wedding in Netanya
One person lightly injured in incident; ceremony continues as planned after police arrive
By ToI Staff
Shas MK Yigal Guetta is seen during a committee meeting at the Knesset on June 16, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 13, 2017, 11:29 am
Shas MK forced out for attending his gay nephew’s wedding
Yigal Guetta’s resignation comes after ultra-Orthodox rabbis called for him to be fired for his ‘public desecration of Heaven’
By ToI Staff
Shas MK Yigal Guetta (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 12, 2017, 10:02 pm
Rabbis urge removal of Shas MK who attended nephew’s gay wedding
‘We’re going in order to make him happy, because he’s my sister’s son,’ Yigal Guetta told his kids; letter slams MK’s ‘public desecration of Heaven’
By ToI Staff
A gay couple has a symbolic wedding ceremony under a traditional wedding canopy during the annual Pride parade in Jerusalem, July 21, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 9, 2017, 12:45 am
79% of Israelis back gay marriage or civil unions
New survey on eve of Tel Aviv Pride Parade also finds 65% of voters for religious-nationalist Jewish Home party support changes
By ToI Staff
Jonathan Ringel, from New York City, rests his head on the shoulder of Cary Brown, his partner of five years during a Shabbat eve ceremony at the Western Wall, May 27, 2016. (Courtesy)
June 3, 2016, 7:39 pm
For LGBTQ Jewish mission to Israel, right to marry trumps Right of Return
In Tel Aviv for Pride Week, JFNA delegation impressed by social progress. And while happy to visit, delegates say they’re glad to go home to the land of the free
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Religious participants in the annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem, September 18, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 9, 2016, 3:44 am
Israeli Orthodox rabbis draft gay ‘inclusivity’ document
Paper issued by nonprofit Beit Hillel aims to allow homosexual individuals to ‘feel more comfortable within their faith community’
By JTA
A right-wing Jewish activist protests outside a court hearing in Petach Tikva, on the matter of the Jewish youth arrested for involvement in a July arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma, December 28, 2015. (Photo by Flash90)
December 29, 2015, 7:53 am
TOI talks terror, torture and the gay elephant in the room
The weekly panel discusses the latest news and views defining our coverage
By Raoul Wootliff
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