Despite the Health Ministry issuing an official warning against such practice in 2014, a small group of licensed professionals who immigrated from the U.S. continue to perform 'conversion therapy'
Evan Cohen’s appointment comes day after Netanyahu distanced his government from Education Minister Rafi Peretz’s comments in favor of conversation therapy
Young Israeli men who emerge from the closet may find their way to the gay community through its intense nightlife. Some get lost in the drugs, orgies and sexual assault
'We are marching today in the biggest and most consistent protest in Israel, demanding equal rights so that every person can write their own story,' says head of Association for LGBTQ Equality
Neta Hadid was buried in a religious ceremony with rabbis taking part, while in eulogies she was addressed as both a man and a woman
In the second year in a row, Tel Aviv hosted the international TAG games for the LGBTQ community. “The atmosphere is never sexual,” says one Indian-British visitor from London who grew up in Dubai
Want a model as your egg donor? Fork over another $8,500. Want boy-and-girl twins? Try genetic engineering. Like many gay couples, we turned to surrogacy. But given the life story of the woman who carried our twins, we had to wonder if surrogacy can ever be moral
An Israeli professor describes his difficult path toward coming to terms with his gay son, the dancer-choreographer Ido Tadmor
Tsivia Barkai Yacov speaks with Haaretz about 'Red Cow' and the experiences that shaped her
Members who perform conversion therapy could now be expelled from the Israel Medical Association, which represents 90 percent of the country’s doctors
Omra Levi-Hazan was left on her own, with two small children. Her battle to get her partner recognized as a mother posthumously is story of true grit, but also of Israel's institutionalized insensitivity toward the LGBT families
Netanyahu was forced to participate in a debate over a recently adopted surrogacy law after lawmakers gathered a requisite 40 signatures for him to do so
Israel registers heterosexual couples as parents without any residency condition. 'We are sad that our country is fighting and abandoning us by appealing a justified and progressive decision,' the women said
Rejection of compromise proposed by High Court leaves decision to the justices
Even today, the greatest liberals snort in contempt at the sight of pesky feminists who courageously fight against tremendous odds
'There is a big gap between what Netanyahu writes and the real discrimination the LGBTQ community is experiencing in Israel,' activists say in response
Like the LGBT community, the Druze are fighting an erosion of their favored status – and just might help the country achieve a state based on justice
The memo of the bill comes a year after a High Court challenge to the state’s policy that prohibited adoption in Israel by anyone other than ‘a man and his wife together’
Missive by liberal religious leaders is response to a letter published last week by over 200 other rabbis, who labeled LGBT community ‘perverts’ and their behavior 'aggressive terrorism'
Rabbis sign open letter supporting Jerusalem rabbi who was harshly criticized for his support of the new law blocking surrogacy for same-sex couples
Gay people are the symbol of secular Israel in the 21st century
There is nothing that serves the Israeli regime better than divisiveness. Anything that brings this about (texts, ideas, protests, arrogance) is a reward for the rulers
In one, the court ordered the state to show cause for refusing to register both members of a same-sex couple as parents of an adopted child on the child’s birth certificate
The announcement of next week’s march follows Sunday’s rally of 80,000 people in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to protest discrimination against the LGBT community
The rage over denying gay couples the right to surrogacy won't be sustained: The economy is doing too well for people to rock the boat
To be listed as a mother on a child’s identity card, to get married at city hall – these are not demands for privilege, but the basic demands of a person in a secular Western country
Hundreds of employers allowed employees to strike without penalty amid anger over law on surrogacy rights that excludes gay men