by Hannah Cohen | Jul 5, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
7,000 people marched in Jerusalem’s 20th Pride March in June in a celebration of LGBTQ rights in the city. Despite threats of violence, the march ended peacefully amid tight security. Participants marched from Liberty Bell Park to Independence Park in downtown...
by Zoe Bernard | Jul 5, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
By: Rabbi Noa Sattath I have been attending Jerusalem Pride Marches for two decades. For years, as director of the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance and the Reform Movement’s Israel Religious Action Center, my work was directly involved in the fight for...
by Zoe Bernard | Jun 24, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights, News
NIF globally funded, The Aguda – Israel’s LGBT Task Force, published its annual Pride Index recently, revealing a record number of Pride events across 52 Israeli municipalities. While there are still no majority Arab or Ultra-Orthodox cities on the list, the Index...
by Zoe Bernard | Jun 24, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights, News
To mark Pride Month in Israel, the Arab LGBTQ organization, Beit el-Meem has launched the first-ever campaign for LGBTQ rights in Arab towns around Israel including in Nazareth, Iksal, Kafr Kanna, and Reineh. Beit el-Meem was established earlier this year following an...
by Zoe Bernard | Jun 22, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights, News
In the midst of Israel’s Pride Month, NIF conducted an interview with Or Keshet, a 38-year-old lawyer who for the past three years has served as Director of Government Relations for The Aguda — Israel’s LGBT Task Force, an organization funded by the NIF global...
by Zoe Bernard | May 19, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights, News
After a decades-long legal battle that began in the 1980s, Israel’s Supreme Court has approved the eviction of more than 1,000 Palestinians from eight villages in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank. The region of the West Bank, which the Israeli army refers to as...
