In a victory for same-sex parents, the High Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that the Interior Ministry cannot refuse to write an adoptive parent’s name on a child’s birth certificate because of the parent’s sex. The ruling came in an appeal by two gay men who jointly adopted a son. They attempted to procure a birth […]
At the end of December popular Israeli LGBTQ magazine WDG asked the local community to summarize the biggest stories of 2017. Over 1,800 readers responded and over all, said that 2017 was a good year for the LGBTQ community in Israel. 62% of the respondents said that 2017 was good and 38% said it’s good […]
A lack of legislation makes it difficult for lesbian couples seeking to recognize maternal legal status for their shared children, and are often left at the whim of the courts. Photo: Ilan Aysag Nadia Eisner Horesh, a mother of five from Jerusalem, discovered after the birth of her sixth child that she is liable to […]
LGBTQ activists demonstrated Monday in front of the Tel Aviv District Court, where a hearing was held on the appeal of the Ministry of Social Affairs against a parenting order given to a same-sex couple, claiming that their three-year-old son, who was born through sperm donation, was actually a “child reservation” for the goal of […]
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Whether you like it or not, the Knesset is the place where the decisions are made and where the people sit who determine the policy that affects the reality of all Israelis. The devoted volunteers of the Forum for Public Policy in the Aguda know very well that if we want to make a change […]
A precedent-setting ruling was handed down today at the Family Court in Eilat, regarding parenting orders for lesbian couples. Lior and Michal, two women who brought together two children to the world and then broke up, can now legally become mothers of the children even though they do not live together anymore. Each of the […]
State commits to introduce legislation by June 2018, responding to a court petition challenging the discrimination in the current law against gays and lesbians The state committed on Sunday to introduce legislation that would equalize the adoption rights of same-sex couples by June 2018. The announcement was made during a hearing at the High Court of […]
The weekend edition of the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronot featured an extensive and empowering interview with Daniel Moreshet, the religious teen actor who came out publicly during the adoption crisis in July. “I will share my life with a man, because that’s what G-d wanted,” Moreshet wrote in July. In the first interview since his […]
Haim Abraham, an attorney and doctoral student in law at the University of Toronto, says that there’s no reason to celebrate: The Social Affairs Ministry’s ‘new’ position on this issue is ‘Yes, but’ – the same old ‘No’ in disguise The social networks of Israel’s LGBT community celebrated a victory last week when the Labor, Social […]