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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Jerusalem Open House

Thousands take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 16, 2024, 7:18 pm
Jerusalem Pride parade to march for hostages’ release, LGBTQ rights
Organizers say ‘Born to be Free’ banner symbolizes both the struggle to free captives held since October 7 and gay rights — ‘the demand for freedom and a safe life for everyone’
By ToI Staff
A Jerusalem apartment that is part of the Open Houses Jerusalem tours on the weekends of April 4-6 and 11-13, 2024 (Courtesy Mikaela Borseto)
March 27, 2024, 7:30 am
Rescheduled Open House Jerusalem to launch with several tours related to Oct. 7
Batim Mibifnim was postponed from late October after the Hamas attack; now it will take place over two weekends in April
By Jessica Steinberg
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Tel Aviv Police Forward Command Center with Police Commissioner Koi Shabtai during an anti-government protest in the city, March 1, 2023. (Courtesy: National Security Ministry)
May 27, 2023, 11:19 pm
Jerusalem Pride Parade organizers say Ben Gvir must be kept away from event security
Open House notes police minister’s past involvement in counter-protests, role as attorney for the brother of the man who murdered Shira Banki at 2015 march
By ToI Staff
Thousands take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
May 15, 2023, 6:00 pm
Police arrest man over threats to organizers of Jerusalem Pride Parade
37-year-old resident of Ma’ale Efraim settlement ordered by the court to stay away from LGBTQ events for the rest of the year after he emailed death threats to Jerusalem Open House
By ToI Staff
Nerya and Kaiwin, a gay couple who were assaulted in Jerusalem, March 2022. (The Agudah)
March 23, 2022, 5:49 pm
Jerusalem gay couple file police complaint after assault by ultra-Orthodox
Nerya and Kaiwin, who live opposite a yeshiva, say they have faced three weeks of harassment including a brick thrown through their window and other physical violence
By ToI Staff
Israelis take part in a gay pride rally after the annual parade was canceled due to the coronavirus, at Independence Park in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 28, 2020, 11:20 pm
In lieu of Pride parades, thousands attend rallies across Israel for LGBT rights
Demonstrations in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheba held after annual celebrations scrapped due to pandemic; 27 far-right protesters arrested in advance as precaution
By Jacob Magid
Participants in Jerusalem's Gay Pride Parade, August 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 28, 2020, 10:34 am
3 right-wing activists arrested ahead of LGBTQ rally in Jerusalem
Lehava activists are reportedly planning to infiltrate event, which will be secured by more than 1,200 police officers
By ToI Staff
Members of the right-wing organization Lehava protest outside the Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem, on February 08, 2017. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
June 27, 2020, 7:21 am
Jewish extremist group Lehava said planning to disrupt LGBTQ rally in Jerusalem
Anti-coexistence organization publishes guide instructing members on how to infiltrate Sunday’s event, with advice on ‘dress code,’ slang and ‘behavioral patterns’
By ToI Staff
People participate in the annual Pride Parade in Tel Aviv on June 14, 2019. (Flash90)
May 3, 2020, 11:57 am
Pride parades, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, postponed amid virus fears
Organizers say virtual events will take place and they are ‘hopeful’ marches will be held later in summer if pandemic wanes
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar, right, during a seminar in Ashdod,July 19, 2019. (Kan public broadcaster)
July 23, 2019, 1:32 pm
Jerusalem chief rabbi: Gay people cannot be religious, shouldn’t pretend to be
LGBT community fumes after Shlomo Amar tells seminar that homosexuality is a ‘wild lust’ that can be overcome with simple fear of God
By Stuart Winer
Jerusalem police chief Moshe Edri at the scene of the pride parade stabbing in Jerusalem on July 30, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 2, 2018, 8:54 pm
LGBT rights groups slam choice of new Israel Police chief
Organizations criticize Moshe Edri over fatal stabbing of marcher Shira Banki, 16, at Jerusalem pride parade when he was the city’s top cop
By ToI Staff
Hebrew graffiti reading "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: It is abomination -- Leviticus," is seen spray painted on a wall in Jerusalem on July 25, 2018, near where 16-year-old was stabbed to death by an ultra-Orthodox extremist during the 2015 gay pride parade in the city. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 25, 2018, 5:52 pm
Anti-gay graffiti found near site of teenager’s murder at 2015 pride parade
Police open investigation after biblical verse against homosexuality is scrawled on wall in Jerusalem next to where Shira Banki was stabbed to death
By ToI Staff
An Israeli teen wrapped in an LGBT Pride flag near the settlement of Efrat, June 3, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
June 8, 2018, 6:40 am
Gently breaking taboos, a settlement bloc moves gingerly toward LGBT acceptance
In first gathering of its kind in a religious community on either side of Green Line, Efrat event takes unambiguous stance against notion that homosexuality is a matter of choice
By Jacob Magid
Partial view of Mamilla Cemetery. (CC BY-SA Yoninah, Wikimedia commons)
October 25, 2017, 6:36 pm
Minister cancels left-wing group’s tour of Jerusalem Arab cemetery
Visit to Mamilla, nixed from Open House festival by Ze’ev Elkin, will go ahead unofficially, says interfaith organization
By ToI Staff
Representatives of the Jerusalem Open House march in the city's 2016 Gay Pride Parade, July 21, 2016. (Adi Eddie)
September 22, 2016, 11:30 am
In Israel, Modern Orthodoxy embraces the religious LGBTs — partly
After murder at 2015’s Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, members of gay community see increased acceptance even as some spiritual leaders double down on rejection
By Ronit Bezalel
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