Thanks to Omer Ohana, the amendment to the Bereaved Families Law passed, which for the first time recognizes bereaved common-law partners as equals. Omer Ohana, the widowed partner of IDF veteran Maj. Sagi Golan will speak at this year’s Pride and Tolerance Parade in Jerusalem. On Tuesday morning, residents of Jerusalem awoke to billboards with…
By nearly all accounts, Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh was easy to like. The gay Palestinian man living in Israel was possessed of a soft-spoken intelligence that he applied for the benefit of others. But back in his native Hebron, hatred lurked. Years of abuse from his family and general intolerance in Palestinian society had led him…
A gay Palestinian man living under asylum in Israel was murdered and beheaded Wednesday in the West Bank city of Hebron. The unnamed suspect, who was arrested by Palestinian Authority police near the scene of the crime soon after committing it, recorded the act in a video that he uploaded to social media before his…
LGBT Palestinians fleeing persecution in the West Bank will be allowed to work in the country, ending years being allowed to reside in Israel but little else, the Israeli government told the High Court on Sunday night. The restrictions placed LGBT Palestinians in a highly precarious situation, driving many to work illegally under exploitative conditions…
Lawmaker hopes move will ‘break taboos’; two centers for LGBT Arab Israeli adults to open in Haifa Israel is set to open its first shelter designated for LGBT Arab Israeli youth, in a move hailed as “historic” by one of the lawmakers who led the initiative. The Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry, which recently announced…
