2001

Moshe Katzav, president of Israel, meets with representatives of the LGBT community

First pride parades in Jerusalem, Haifa and Eilat.

Professor Uzi Even was elected to the Knesset as number 13 on the Meretz party list, and became a Member of the Knesset for three months in 2001. That made him the first ever publicly out MK in the history of Israel.