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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

Pride week

Revelers dance on garbage bins as police stand guard at the annual Pride Parade, in Tel Aviv on June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
June 25, 2021, 11:31 pm
100,000 at Tel Aviv Pride Parade, Israel’s largest event since start of COVID
Police arrest dozens of suspected agitators, one of them with taser, nunchucks and other weapons; several government ministers among revelers
By ToI Staff and Agencies
People participate in the annual Pride Parade, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
June 25, 2021, 12:55 pm
Tel Aviv Pride Parade returns with fanfare after last year’s COVID cancellation
Heavy police presence secures the event in which tens of thousands are participating, as Health Ministry recommends wearing masks even at crowded outdoor pride festivities
By ToI Staff
Static (left), Nasreen Qadri (center) and Ben El Tavori sing about gay pride in the 2020 Pride Week single, commissioned by the city of Tel Aviv, which had to cancel its Pride celebration due to the coronavirus (Courtesy screen grab)
June 25, 2020, 8:25 pm
Say you love me, sing pop stars for Tel Aviv Pride Week
Static, Ben El Tavori and Nasreen Qadri join together in a LGBTQ-studded video celebrating Gay Pride
By Jessica Steinberg
People participate in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on June 14, 2019 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 14, 2019, 9:07 am
With glitz and glamor, Tel Aviv celebrates Mideast’s largest Pride parade
250,000 expected at annual event that concludes month of LGBTQ activities; major streets closed; top activist says while march is happy, discrimination is ongoing
By ToI Staff
Actor Neil Patrick Harris, the 2019 International Pride Ambassador, in Tel Aviv on June 13, 2019. (courtesy Tel Aviv municipality)
June 13, 2019, 2:37 pm
How I met your city: Neil Patrick Harris hosts Friday’s Tel Aviv Pride Parade
Quarter of a million people expected to turn White City into rainbow for annual extravaganza
By Melanie Lidman
Police raid a gay sauna in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2019 (Screen grab via Channel 12)
June 8, 2019, 3:20 pm
Outcry after police drug raid on Tel Aviv gay club ahead of Pride week
Municipality official says timing of raid is problematic and harms relations between police and LGBT community; club owners arrested and venue shut down
By ToI Staff
Adam Graham
June 14, 2018, 2:38 pm
Adam Graham
We need to talk about Tel Aviv Pride
Beyond the rainbow glow of Israel’s most successful LGBTQ+ event ever is a world of toxic discrimination
People take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 8, 2018, 8:40 pm
Over 250,000 revelers flood Tel Aviv for Israel’s biggest ever Gay Pride parade
Israelis and visitors celebrate freedom and tolerance at 20th annual event in self-styled ‘most gay-friendly city’ in world
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Israelis and tourists wave flags as they participate in the Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 8, 2018. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
June 8, 2018, 1:39 pm
Revelers take to the streets of Tel Aviv for region’s largest Pride Parade
At least 200,000 people expected; roads blocked for 20th annual march through the coastal city
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
Israelis take part the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on Friday, June 9, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 7, 2018, 11:44 pm
Tel Aviv readies for region’s largest gay pride parade
Major roads to be blocked for 20th annual parade Friday, expected to draw hundreds of thousands of revelers
By Michael Bachner
In this picture taken Saturday, May 12, 2018, bracelets decorated with the rainbow colors are displayed at a restaurant during the launch event of Beirut Pride week in Beirut, Lebanon (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
May 16, 2018, 9:32 am
Lebanon’s gay pride week brought to halt after crackdown
Organizer detained for ‘encouraging debauchery and offending public decency,’ told to pledge to call off festivities
By AP and ToI Staff
Israelis take part the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on Friday, June 9, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 9, 2017, 7:49 pm
Over 200,000 attend Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade, some 30,000 from abroad
Amid tight security, revelers celebrate freedom and tolerance at annual event in the ‘most gay-friendly city’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Israelis take part the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on Friday, June 9, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 9, 2017, 8:16 am
Revelers throng Tel Aviv for LGBT rights, amid tight security
Road closures expected throughout the city during annual Pride Parade, which this year focuses on bisexuality
By ToI Staff and AFP
A lesbian couple hold hands during the Tel Aviv Gay Pride parade on June 3, 2016 (David Silverman/Getty Images via JTA, File)
June 6, 2017, 4:16 pm
Bisexuality takes center stage at Tel Aviv Pride Parade
Focus on bisexuals part of effort to highlight marginalized groups within the LGBTQ community
By Melanie Lidman
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