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Yishai Schlissel

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
Participants march under heavy security in the annual Pride Parade, in Jerusalem, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
May 7, 2023, 5:13 pm
Organizer of Jerusalem Pride Parade tells police of threats against marchers
Open House director says the June 1 event ‘will continue without question,’ calls on law enforcement to deal with those targeting event
By ToI Staff
Religious Zionism MK Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and adviser Chanamel Dorfman. (Screen capture/Channel 13; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 18, 2022, 7:35 pm
Top Ben Gvir aide listed as legal adviser for group that donates to Rabin assassin
After report revealed Chanamel Dorfman helped establish organization that bankrolls incarcerated Jewish terrorists, follow-up reveals that those assisted also include Yigal Amir
By ToI Staff
People at the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem on June 3, 2021 look at a photo of Shira Banki, murdered by an ultra-Orthodox extremist at the march in 2015. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 2, 2022, 8:44 am
Man arrested for threats to Jerusalem Pride organizer referencing murdered teen
Suspect, 21, originally from Europe, allegedly sent death threats referring to 2015 murder of Shira Banki; 2,400 officers deployed for march, 180 potential attackers identified
By ToI Staff
File: Jerusalem Pride Parade marchers on August 2, 2018 carry a poster commemorating 16-year-old Shira Banki, murdered by an ultra-Orthodox extremist in a pride march in the capital in 2015. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)
June 1, 2022, 4:03 pm
MKs, Jerusalem Pride march organizer receive death threats referencing murdered teen
‘The fate of Shira Banki awaits you,’ reads message sent to lawmakers and activist, naming 16-year-old killed by Haredi extremist in 2015; lawmakers decry incitement, vow to march
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
Gilad Erdan (left) and Moshe Edri (2nd from left), at a farewell ceremony for outgoing chief of police Roni Alsheich in Beit Shemesh, on November 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 30, 2018, 12:03 pm
As battle over police chief brews, ministers call to disband vetting panel
Top cabinet officials say Moshe Edri should be confirmed despite his rejection by committee, as AG weighs his legal position; Erdan names Motti Cohen as interim commissioner
By ToI Staff
Friends of Shira Banki mourn at her grave after her funeral on August 3, 2015. 16-year-old Banki was stabbed and critically wounded while participating in the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade on July 31. Banki passed away on August 2, 2015. (Flash90)
June 14, 2018, 3:29 pm
Far-right activist gets NIS 180 fine for praising fatal 2015 gay parade stabbing
In Facebook posts, Gilad Kleiner, son of a former MK, endorsed the 2015 attack and celebrated the death of 16-year-old Shira Banki
By ToI Staff
Tens of thousands participate at the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on June 3, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 4, 2017, 7:35 pm
Man arrested for threatening to attack gay pride parade
Bnei Brak resident suspected over Facebook post calling for a ‘terror attack’ at upcoming march in Tel Aviv
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
Gay pride stabber Yishai Schlissel is led out of the courtroom, at the Jerusalem District Court on June 26, 2016, after being sentenced to life in prison and an additional 31 years (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 17, 2016, 6:51 pm
Gay Pride killer beaten up in prison in argument over his crime
Two jailed mobsters assault Yishai Schlissel when dispute about his murder of teenage girl turns violent
By ToI Staff
Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed six people at the annual Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade on July 30, 2015, is seen in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on July 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 9, 2016, 1:05 am
Pride parade killer hospitalized after provoking prison fight
Yishai Schlissel beaten up for tearing up photos of a fellow inmate’s daughters because they were ‘dressed immodestly’
By ToI Staff
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 24, 2016, 2:17 pm
NYT says Bloomberg will back Clinton — and he tweets it
Paper says former Republican mayor of New York is ‘dismayed’ about Trump’s rise, determined to see him beaten
By Sara Miller
Liron Shimonie, far left, and Yuval Regev, center, wearing masks of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s face at the Jerusalem Pride Parade, July 21, 2016. (Andrew Tobin)
July 23, 2016, 2:58 am
At Jerusalem pride march, Orthodox welcome
‘This is my first time,’ said Gabi Gabai, 45, an Orthodox educator from Kfar Adumim, standing at a memorial to Shira Banki with his wife and six children
By Andrew Tobin
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