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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

same-sex marriage in Israel

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
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
Couple takes part in a mass same-sex wedding in Tel Aviv, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
May 11, 2022, 1:00 pm
Same-sex couple wins NIS 80,000 from wedding venue that turned them away
After two women persisted in attempting to book the site, a representative explained to them that ‘we do not do such things’
By ToI Staff
Nadiv Schorer, right, married Ariel Meiri in 2020 with Orthodox rabbi Avram Mlotek officiating. (David Perlman Photography via JTA)
November 6, 2020, 12:45 am
Small but growing number of US Orthodox rabbis officiating same-sex weddings
They’re breaking ranks to perform ceremonies unthinkable until recently in the Orthodox Jewish world
By Josefin Dolsten
FILE -- In this Nov. 5, 2015 photo, a couple from Britain whose baby was born on Oct. 17 by a surrogate pose their baby for a photo in Anand, India (AP Photo/Allison Joyce)
July 10, 2018, 4:02 am
Knesset bill amendment denies surrogacy for same-sex couples
‘We are good enough to serve the country, but not to be parents,’ MK Itzik Shmuli tells committee during emotional hearing
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 5, 2018, 10:05 am
Most Israelis favor same-sex marriage, but half of MKs mum on issue
Lawmakers who did not respond to the Channel 10 survey include culture minister, who has marched in pride parade
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Jerusalem, September 2012. (Flash90)
June 1, 2018, 8:40 pm
Grandson of former Israeli chief rabbi to marry boyfriend
Few members of late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s family expected to attend wedding of Ovadia Cohen and Amichai Landsman, to be conducted by a gay Orthodox woman
By ToI Staff
In this Thursday, December 14, 2017 photo, Rabbi Chuck Davidson holds a wedding service in Ein Hemed. A growing number of Israeli couples are defying the country’s Chief Rabbinate and marrying in unsanctioned weddings. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
December 23, 2017, 8:54 am
With few options, Israeli couples turn to rogue weddings
Some 20% of Israelis are getting married outside the rabbinate, compared to 16% in 2010, and experts say the number will keep rising
By Ilan Ben Zion
Thousands protest in support of the right of LGBT couples to adopt children at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on July 20, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 26, 2017, 4:43 am
US Jews urge Israel to provide equal adoption rights for same-sex couples
200 community leaders and institutions call on government to end discrimination against gay partners who want to adopt children
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a same-sex marriage ceremony.(Photo credit: Gay marriage image via Shutterstock)
October 7, 2016, 8:43 am
Israeli women wed in Toronto, with a little Facebook help
After witnesses couldn’t make it, Einav Morgenstern and Tamar Yahel posted an urgent plea for strangers’ help just two hours before ceremony
By JTA
An advert for car manufacturer Nissan showing a same-sex couple with two children above the Hebrew, "The new family," as seen in the daily newspaper Yisrael Hayom, September 16, 2016 (Avi Mayer)
September 22, 2016, 3:32 am
Rabbis fight Nissan same-sex couples ad
Religious forum launches effort against car advertisement, says ‘normal families’ have a mother and father
By Raoul Wootliff
Religious participants in the annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem, September 18, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 1, 2016, 1:07 pm
Support for same-sex unions in Israel soars
Survey by advocacy group says 76% of Israelis support gay marriage or civil unions, up 12% since last year
By ToI Staff
Friends and family carry the bodies of Naama and Eitam Henkin during their funeral at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem, October 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 29, 2016, 9:19 am
TOI talks: Twenty-nine Israelis and counting
On this week’s episode: Tallying the terror victims; Iranian elections and funding Palestinian terrorists; UK’s David Cameron vs. Jerusalem; and supporting LGBTQ rights on Monday, opposing them on Tuesday
By Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative: Israelis walking past the Knesset during the annual gay parade in Jerusalem, July 29, 2010. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
February 27, 2016, 10:37 pm
LGBT activists protest after MKs nix 5 gay rights bills
200 members of the community take to the streets near government district in Tel Aviv demanding change in the law
By ToI Staff
Bezalel Smotrich (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 16, 2015, 6:52 pm
NGO files complaint against MK for ‘Gays control the media’ remark
Ometz movement asks Knesset Ethics Committee to intervene after Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich’s controversial comments
By Tamar Pileggi
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