Surrogacy

Justice Ministry unit warns against surrogacy procedures in Ukraine

The warning was published on Tuesday and circulated on Wednesday by the Government Unit for Coordinating the Fight against Human Trafficking, Prostitution, and Polygamy.

A MDA medic holds a baby, born to a Napalese surrogate mother [Illustrative]
 Gaza hostage Yotam Haim (left), mother Iris Haim (right).

Israeli mothers lead posthumous sperm boom after October 7

Israeli couple stranded in Colombia after surrogacy birth due to sudden entry regulation change

Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli.

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575 rabbis call on Israel to implement full equality for LGBTs

“The enshrining of discrimination into law, and harmful words spoken by religious leaders, sow the seeds of hatred and brutality in the land."

 Hundreds of members of LGBT community protest surrogacy law in Tel Aviv

Annual Pride Parade takes over Jerusalem

Participants in the Jerusalem parade congregated in Liberty Bell Park amid heavy security, and at 17:30 began wending their way through the city.

Love is love pride parade jerusalem Aug 2 2018

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

LGBT community presents list of demands to government

"The time has come for the politicians to act for us and not for themselves or for the extreme minority that controls them."

Leaders of LGBT organizations present demands for equal rights at press conference at the Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Community Center in Gan Meir on Wednesday

Lebanon: Mother-Daughter uterine transplant gives hope to infertile women

The procedure may be less valued in Israel and other countries that allow surrogacy

A pregnant woman

Israel’s Surrogacy Law ‘HB2’ moment is bad, but not anti-Zionism fodder

We must respect and support the same homegrown activism in Israel that will no doubt prevail in securing surrogacy, adoption rights and universal marriage equality, too.

Protestors shout slogans during a LGBT community members protest against discriminatory surrogate bill in Tel Aviv, Israel July 22, 2018

Gay rights don’t need to come at the cost of trafficking women’s organs

In theory, the law allows women to carry someone else’s child only out of altruism. In practice, however, that is not what actually happens.

 Hundreds of members of LGBT community protest surrogacy law in Tel Aviv

Yoav Galant: Surrogacy law was a 'mistake'

"The current surrogacy law has not place in a democracy," the government's Construction and Housing Minister said.

Yoav Galant

LGBT campaign snowballs as hundreds of companies support nationwide strike

Protest activities are set to take place all day throughout the country at major intersections and in front of government offices.

 Hundreds of members of LGBT community protest surrogacy law in Tel Aviv

Hundreds of members of LGBT community protest surrogacy law in Tel Aviv

"There is a limit to how much ‘no’ we can hear, and we will not remain silent until the discrimination ends.”

 Hundreds of members of LGBT community protest surrogacy law in Tel Aviv