A group of 18 New York city council members, including the council spokesperson, arrived at the Tel Aviv LGBT center in order to study its work, being the first LGBT Center in the world funded by a city municipality. Members of the Council representing various districts of New York City, accompanied by the city council […]
Transgender Israeli activist Or Mizan from Yahud, writes about uncomfortable daily situations that people from the transgender community face, and how cisgender people can help make them less stressful. I know that the outside world has yet to gather the perfect toolbox in order to know how to deal with a trans* person (I deliberately […]
Helen Elbaum, an orthodox mother, moved the entire Israeli public with her speech in her son’s gay wedding. Rabbi Binyamin (Benny) Lau, a famous orthodox rabbi, came to congratulate: “the idea that two people seek to enter into a marital union is, in my eyes, a rescue from death to life,” he said. Earlier this […]
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 Trans Art project to mark the 2017 Transgender Day of Remembrance presented the current state of the transgender community in Israel in the fields of employment, medicine, personal security, religion and more. “Over the past two years, there have been 325 reports of murder attempts against people from the transgender community,” explains Niki Sever, […]
Shirel, a transgender man, speaks about struggling with his gender identity in a religious household. “Even in the summer I would wear a hoodie to hide my breasts and I would never go to the beach.” He unexpectedly found the freedom to be who he is in an LGBTQ group on an orthodox religious university […]
A precedent decision by the Family Court in Petach Tikva, given Monday by the Honorable Judge Idit Ben-Julian, gives retroactive legal parenting to a lesbian mom of a six-year-old girl from the date of birth. The decision to grant a retrospective parenting order for a 6-year-old (the highest age to date for which a court […]
Elian Nesiel from Bat Yam was chosen as 2017 Miss Trans Israel, and will represent Israel in the international Miss Trans Star competition in Barcelona later this year. Nesiel, 20, was chosen as part of the screenings and auditions by association “Beyachad” for the advancement of the trans status in Israel. “I am delighted with […]
Following a protest against the state’s position on adoption, a meeting was held Monday between representatives of the Aguda, the Association of Israeli Gay Fathers, and Welfare Minister Haim Katz. In the meeting, the LGBTQ representitives presented the outline of the solution to the current crisis: “We are waiting to see whether there will be […]
Back in January, we launched A Wider Bridge Impact, our organization fundraising arm to financially advance and support the struggle of the LGBTQ community in Israel. Our first project, The Orthodox Visibility Project, aimed to help the religious LGBTQ organizations fund a visibility campaign in the media. See the outcome! “Our Faces, Together” The Orthodox […]