Designated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a rare rebuke of his new coalition allies on Sunday, December 25, for saying they would advance laws allowing discrimination against LGBT+ people, pledging there would be no harm to their rights by his upcoming government.
Mr. Netanyahu is set to form the most ultranationalist and religious government in Israel’s history between his Likud and several openly anti-LGBT+ parties. This has raised fears among Israel’s LGBT+ community that the new government, expected to take office in the coming week, will roll back gains made for LGBT+ rights in Israel in recent years.
Orit Struck, a Religious Zionist member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, said her party seeks a change to the country’s anti-discrimination law that would include permitting people to avoid acts that go against their…
