Trans rights activists argued that the Foreign Ministry was not aiding in efforts to bring the woman home.
Sarit, an 18-year-old girl from the Druze town of Kisra-Sumei, was threatened for years before her murder due to her sexual orientation.
The controversial new policy enforces students using their pronouns assigned at birth and their birth names and forbids same-sex relationships.
Thousands of men were sent to concentration camps as "homosexual offenders" during the Holocaust.
A woman and community leader from Cedar Glen, California was murdered at her store by a man who took issue with her having an LGBTQ pride flag.
The 33-year-old teacher had asked the students to write a poem about their own identity after reading the book.
The attack is the second anti-LGBTQ assault reported in Rehovot in the past month.
Immediately following the passing of the amendment, anti-reformists filed a barrage of petitions calling for the striking of the law.
The children of LGBT families spoke out against Welfare Minister Yaakov Mergi's statements against LGBT families being allowed to adopt.
The decision was not about discrimination or about religion and attempts to characterize it as such are disingenuous.
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