Conversion therapy aims to change people's sexual orientations or gender identities.
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
"Shame and disgrace" shouted some haredi MKs after the bill passed, as a number of MKs began to applaud.
Likud minister says Gantz leading Israel to new election after Blue and White votes with opposition to approve Meretz-led legislation.
The bill is nevertheless another straw on the camel’s back.
The legislation, proposed by Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz, would remove the license of a psychologist who uses conversion therapy, fine them and send them to jail for repeat offenses.
The United Nations independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity called last month for a global ban on conversion therapy, describing it as "cruel, inhumane and degrading."
The Order of Psychologists said members would face disciplinary proceedings if they carried out the treatment.
Station claims Yigal Levinstein said conversion therapy is necessary to rid people of homosexual tendencies. Rabbi says he referred to 'normative therapy'
'When the family is good, accepting and inclusive it's all well and good, but when the family gets mad and violent who ignores needs, identity and wants of the child, then the house is a prison'
JPOST Digital Library
