Gay Israel

Visible allyship: Why LGBTQ+ Jews shouldn't have to choose between their identities - opinion

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned from working at JQY is that allyship cannot be assumed. It has to be visible.

People march in the Capitol Pride Parade on June 20, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Capitol LGBT parade had been postponed due to President Trump's UFC fight at the White House.
YAIR LAPID speaks at the 24th annual Jerusalem Pride Parade, June 4, 2026.

Lapid promises marriage equality within first 100 days of new gov. at Jerusalem Pride Parade

Israeli flag and rainbow flag being waved at Tel Aviv Pride Parade, June 25 2021

Anti-LGBTQ violence in Israel rose sharply in 2025, national queer and trans violence report finds

 Kipod Hazahav offerings include ‘Full Tank'.

Tel Aviv's Kipod Hazahav festival brings 16 independent productions to the stage


200 leading rabbis call gays ‘perverts,’ oppose gay surrogacy

The letter caused outrage among liberal leaders and organizations, who castigated the rabbis and called for any of them on the public payroll to be fired.

Municipal chief rabbi of Safed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu (C), municipal chief rabbi of Jerusalem Rabbi Aryeh Stern (L) and Temple Institute Rabbi Yisrael Ariel (R) at a prayer rally at the Western Wall

Single women soon to get access to surrogacy, gay couples denied option

Until now, state-supported surrogacy has only been available for married heterosexual couples; the new law will expand the eligibility to single women as well.

A couple with their twin babies delivered by a surrogate mother. [Illustrative]

In pictures: 2018 Pride Parade

Tel Aviv's pride events reach their peak on Friday with the commencement of the city's 20th annual gay pride parade.

2018 Tel Aviv Pride Parade, June 8, 2018.

Creating a coalition to counter misinformation

“Their life mission is to delegitimize Israel, so unfortunately the line between anti-Zionist and antisemitic beliefs is very thin.”

Peter Fox at Capital Pride 2017 in Washington

Tel Aviv suburb gets country’s first gay mayor

Ginzburg to ‘Post’: I feel there is significance that another glass ceiling was shattered

RA’ANANA’S NEWLY elected mayor Eitan Ginzburg (right), and his partner, Yotam Nisenboat, pose with their children last year in the US

November 1, 2017: Poor UNRWA

Letters

Israel to amend adoption law, give same-sex couples equal rights

The state says it will introduce the new legislation by June 2018.

Jerusalem annual gay pride parade

Shas MK resigns amid flack over his attendance at wedding of gay nephew

Lapid: “It’s sad that in Israel in 2017 an MK is forced to resign because he participated in the wedding of two people who love each other.”

Shas MK Yigal Guetta

Pride parade kicks off in Jerusalem

Thousands of Israelis gathered in the capitol on Thursday for the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade.

Boy wearing a colorful kippah at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade 2017

Freedom to adopt

The LGBT community was rightly incensed at the challenge to the equality of rights in our modern society.

A rainbow coloured placard in the colors of the LGBT flag [Illustrative]