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Israeli LGBT(Gay community) thread - SkyscraperCity
Israel is considered to be the most advanced and tolerant in the Middle East in terms of gay rights, and indeed one of the most tolerant in the whole world.
In November 2005, a groundbreaking court decision in Israel ruled that a lesbian spouse could officially adopt a child born to her current partner, by artificial insemination from an anonymous sperm donor;
This ruling was despite protests by the Orthodox Jewish parliamentary parties (which are a minority).
Common law marriage has already been similarly achieved (which grants most of the official marriage rights to the spouse), but full official gay marriage has not been sanctioned.
However, same-sex marriages performed elsewhere are recognized.
Israel, Turkey, and Cyprus are the only countries in the Middle East where homosexuality between consenting adults in private is not illegal and homosexuals are not persecuted by the authorities.
Cyprus had been forced to follow suit as a condition of joining the European Union.
While homosexual conduct is legal in Jordan, the law does not require punishment for honor killings of homosexuals.
In most other Middle Eastern countries homosexuality is illegal, often punishable by flogging and even hanging.
Until 2001, Israel had been the only country in Asia where homosexuals are protected with anti-discrimination laws, which they now share with Japan.
Israel remains the only one in the Middle East with such laws
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Sodomy
The State of Israel inherited its sodomy or "buggery" law from the British influence, but there is no record that it was ever enforced against homosexual acts that took place between consenting adults in private.
In 1963 the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that this law could not be enforced;
However, in certain cases defendants were found guilty of "sodomy" (which according to Israeli law includes oral sex as well), apparently by way of plea bargains: those defendants had been indicted for more serious sexual offences.
There were also cases of soldiers tried for homosexual acts in military courts.
The ban on consentual same-sex sexual acts was formally repealed by the national legislative assembly Knesset in 1988.[2] The age of consent for both heterosexuals and homosexuals is sixteen years of age.
Employment discrimination
In 1992 legislation was introduced to prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, with some exemptions for religious organizations.
Marriage
Civil unions in Israel
Israeli law recognizes same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
It is the only country in the Middle East and all of Asia to do so.
It does not, however, allow same-sex couples to marry.
It should be noted that civil marriage doesn't exist in Israel for heterosexual couples, either, and therefore no marriage not sanctioned by religious authorities can take place within Israel.
(This restriction forces not only gay couples, but also all mixed-religion heterosexual couples, to marry outside of the country.)
The State of Israel allows foreign partners of its homosexual citizenry to receive residency permits.
The Civil Service Commission extends spousal benefits and pensions to the partners of homosexual employees.
The Israeli State Attorney's Office has extended the spousal exemption from property-transfer taxes to same-sex couples.
Israel's attorney general has granted legal recognition to same-sex couples in financial and other business matters.
Attorney General Meni Mazuz said the couples will be treated the same as common-law spouses, recognizing them as legal units for tax, real estate, and financial purposes.
Mazuz made his decision by refusing to appeal a district court ruling in an inheritance case that recognized the legality of a same-sex union, his office said in a statement.
Mazuz did differentiate, however, between recognizing same-sex unions for financial and practical purposes, as he did, and changing the law to officially sanction the unions, which would be a matter for parliament, according to the statement.
The city of Tel Aviv recognizes unmarried couples, including gays and lesbians, as family units and grants them discounts for municipal services.
Under the bylaw, unmarried couples qualify for the same discounts on day care and the use of swimming pools, sports facilities, and other city-sponsored activities that married couples enjoy.
On January 29, 2007, following a High Court ruling ordering them to do so, Jerusalem registered its first gay couple, Avi and Binyamin Rose.
Children
On January 10, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that a lesbian couple is able to legally adopt each other's children.
During the past 15 years that Tal and Avital Yaros-Hakak have lived together, they have had a total of three children.
The couple petitioned the Tel Aviv Family Court for the right to formally adopt each other's children in 1997, but the request was rejected because Israel's adoption law had no provisions for same-sex couples.
The couple appealed.
While they failed to get a favorable ruling in the Tel Aviv District Court, the Supreme Court accepted the case.
Citing Article 25 of the Adoption Law, the Yaros-Hakaks argued that the law allows for "special circumstances" for adoption when it is for the good of the child, even if the child's parents are still alive.
The only condition is that the person seeking to adopt be single.
The couple argued that since the state does not recognize same-sex marriage, they are single by law.
The Yaros-Hakaks added that adoption was in the best interest of the children if one of their natural mothers should die.
The Supreme Court of Israel agreed, ruling 7-2 in favor of the couple.
Following the supreme court ruling, a lesbian couple was allowed to adopt each other's biological children on February 12, 2006.
Before that, gay partners of parents were granted guardianship over their partner's children.
Politics
Since the 1970s there has been an active gay rights movement that has often affiliated itself with the Israeli feminist movement and various liberal and social democratic political parties.
Today, Israel's Labor Party, Meretz-Yachad, and Shinui all support gay rights.
Other minor liberal or progressive political parties support a similar platform as well.
Nevertheless, there still have been many anti-gay politicians.
In 1997, President Ezer Weizman compared homosexuality to alcoholism in front of high school students.
This provoked major controversy and the President received numerous calls from civil rights activists and liberal Knesset members.
Shortly following, 300 people demonstrated outside of Weizman's residence, demanding his resignation
Community visibility
Israel has an active gay community, with well attended annual gay pride festivals [5] held in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem since 1998.
The Jerusalem parade gained international coverage when a Jewish extremist stabbed three marchers in 2005.
He was subsequently sentenced to twelve years in prison.
[6] An attempt by Jerusalem's mayor, a Haredi Jew, to thwart Jerusalem pride in June 2005 had been challenged in the courts.
The mayor lost and was ordered to contribute funds to the event.
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The LGBT community in Israel was also brought to the media's attention following the winning of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 by Dana International, an Israeli transsexual.
The World Pride Festival [8] was planned for Jerusalem in August 2005, despite protests from religious groups of the three major religions in Jerusalem.
However, it was postponed due to the Israel's pull out from Gaza Strip, which required the presence of most Israeli police forces and thus leave the parade with little to no security.
It, however, had been plagued with threats of violence, as well as consistent grandstanding against it by some Jewish, Muslim, and Christian leaders and members of the Knesset.
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In November 2006, more than two thousand members of the Haredi Judaism sect jammed into streets in an Orthodox neighbourhood in a show of force aimed at pressuring authorities into cancelling the gay pride parade to be held in Jerusalem.
About a dozen people have been reported injured [10].
The LGBT community is highly visible in Tel-Aviv.
Palestinian issues
Some Palestinian gays and lesbians are reported to be hiding illegally in Israel in order to escape extreme intolerance, physical abuse, death, or disowning by their families that they face in their communities.
Significant expatriate groups exist in Tel Aviv and Netanya, where many live with their Israeli partners who help keep their presence in Israel hidden from the police (who will pursue them not for their sexual orientation, but for illegal stay in the state).[11],[12],[13]
It has also been reported that many in the Palestinian community equate homosexuality with collaboration with Israel.
After Palestinian gay men run away, some of them are recruited by the Israeli Security Forces in exchange for financial or administrative favors such as the right of residence.
If and when they return to their hometowns, they are often accused of being collaborators and are greatly discriminated against, sometimes arrested and tortured.
Even suspicion of collaboration can mean death from fellow Palestinians [14].
One man who returned to Nablus was thrown in a pit and starved to death.[citation needed] A 19-year-old runaway stated in an interview with Israeli television that he had been pressured by the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades to become a suicide bomber in order to ‘purge his moral guilt’, although he had refused.[citation needed] Because of such instances, some Palestinians who are illegally residing Israel are considered security threats and live under virtual house arrest.
Some others who do not hold legal residency in Israel hustle as prostitutes.
In order to remain out of prison, gay men who remain in Palestinian areas often work as Palestinian police agents to "ferret out" other homosexuals in the region.
There are an estimated 300-600 Palestinian homosexuals who have (legally and illegally) found refuge in Israel.
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Israel's Ministry of Tourism is looking to increase the number of gay and lesbian tourists to visit Israel.
An advertising campaign will feature a same-sex couple on a camel and two men in yarmulkes kissing in Jerusalem.
Tel Aviv as world gay destination (A new project in Ministry of Tourism)
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Gay Corner - Morning Program - Channel 2 Israel
The Israeli Gay Youth TV Commercial
israeli HIV awareness campaign 2006
A funny gay ad
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Dana International (transexual,the most important representer of gay community,very famous and popular,got a honour citizenship from the government,represented Israel in European song contest and won)
Yohanathan Getro (singer,not so popular,although this song took 4th place in Israeli MTV)
Offer Nissim -(The most popular DJ of Israel)
Nikka (transexual,
very very famous)
Uzi Even( deputy)
Michal Eden (ex member of Tel Aviv muni)
Itay Pinkas ( a current member of T-A muni)
Saar Netan'el ( a current member of Jerusalem muni)
Asi Azar (tv representer)
Gil Hovav (tv representer)
Ido Tadmor (judger in reality show,dancer)
Gal Ochovsky (judger in Israeli version of American Idol,journalist)
Eithan Fox (film director)
Amir Fei(gale) Gutman (singer,pretty famous)
Ivri Lider (singer,very famous)
Aviad Kissos (tv representer,radio representer,journalist)
Shorty (hip hop singer)
Rona Keinan(singer,pretty famous)
Korin Elal (singer)
Jonathan Koniak and Itsik Cohen(actors,main actors of the movie "Johny"and Ramat Aviv Gimel)
Nicky Goldstein (stand-upist,actor ,u can know him from Eskimo Lemon)
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Nice response to the Lebanese similar thread
But you forgot slash at the link to Ivri Lider's Youtube vid
BTW, in the section of openly gay Israelis you mentioned Gal Ochovsky, but said no word about his partner - film director Eytan Fox
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Hey do you know if they sell the dvd of the israeli tv series "Johny"?
They showed it at the melbourner gay international film festival a few years ago and i loved it?
Where can i find the dvd with english subtitles?
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Ron Shachar and Or Omanuti ("Telenovella ba'am)
A girl caught her bf with her brother in the bed
A hot kiss between Offer Shechter and Yehuda Levy ("Haalufa")
Lesbian kiss between Yael Bar Zohar to Tali Sharon
("Telenovella be'am")
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Songs in which the theme is about 2 guys/girls,etc...
Rotze Banim(I want boys)
Nissim (the name of boy)
The man I love
Jessy
Kore lecha (calling you)
Margish-Feel ( a song about coming out and how u'll feel easy after that)
Nizahti=Won ( a song about a hard way of a transexual)
Song for kokitzas
Eifo atem ya homoim (where are u gays)
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Israeli movies
"The Bubble" is the story of a group of young people who live in Tel-Aviv (a main city in Israel).
The movie follows the group's difficulties of living in Israel's reality.
Their routine brakes when a young Palestinian man enters their life.
Yossi and Jagger
ossi (Ohad Knoller) is a brooding commander who feels constrained by his role as a macho authority figure to conceal his sexuality from the conscripts under his command, while Jagger (Yehuda Levi, a popular Israeli heartthrob whose career was kickstarted by an appearance in the TV soap opera "Cheers for Love" in 2001) is one of his subordinates, a carefree guy who wants them to declare their love publicly by retiring from the Army and setting up house together.
There's a now-famous scene, early in the movie, when Yossi and Jagger make love in the snow (don't get excited - all you see are some lingering kisses and the aftermath, in which the two characters are entirely at ease with one another, free from the restraints imposed by Army discipline), but their romance takes up a surprisingly small amount of the movie's running time, which appears to have been curtailed for reasons of length (there's a number of images doing the rounds from scenes which were apparently shot but didn't make it to the final print).
Based on a true story, the film is warm-hearted but inconsequential, with some annoyingly jerky hand-held camera movements, and the climactic scenes are a little too restrained to be entirely successful (though Knoller, in particular, gives a truly remarkable performance in the aftermath of a devastating plot development).
There's still much to admire, and any reservations are dispelled by the central romance, depicted with disarming frankness and performed with relish by Knoller and Levi.
Highly recommended.
"Walking on water"
This is a unique film that has several layers all happening at once.
The clash between gay and hetro men.
The Israeli-Arab conflict.
Bringing Natzi criminals to justice.
All this and more while undergoing a sight-seeing tour north and south of Israel with its beautiful scenery.
To summerise...
A must see film. Not your usual expected Hollywood drama but a true multi-cultural story with dynamic and evolving characters.
Jonny (a long comedy about a conservative iraqi woman,her gay son,her romanian neighbour and a girl which wants Jonny,but Jonny loves guys )
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You havent answered my question about the movie "Johnny"!!!
where can i find the dvd?
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They are not openly,so they dont enter the list!
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A seriuos question Is the majroty of Israel gay, is Israel is gay country?
Every topic I open about Israel in this forum is about gays gays and gays
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Quote: : A seriuos question Is the majroty of Israel gay, is Israel is gay country?
Every topic I open about Israel in this forum is about gays gays and gays No, It is only here the majority is gay, i think even Kappa himself is gay in denial.
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Quote: : A seriuos question Is the majroty of Israel gay, is Israel is gay country?
Every topic I open about Israel in this forum is about gays gays and gays There's a whole thread on beautiful Israeli women.
Check it out!
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But how you can know if they are not leeesbians as well?
Quote: : they are not openly,so they dont enter the list!
Gaymboys are not openly gay band, but every one of them separately is?
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