- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Civil unions (marriage rights)
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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History
Homosexual activity in Israel is legal.
In 1953 the police was ordered to refrain from enforcing the law against homosexual acts by the Israeli government.
In 1963 Israel's Highest Court decides that individuals who committed consensual homosexual acts privately couldn't be punished and even before that there are no records of punishments by civilian courts against people who committed consensual homosexual acts privately.
The law was officially repealed by the Knesset ( the Israeli Parliament ) in 1988, but it's enforcement was illegal since 1963 in most cases.
Same-sex marriage in Israel is civil unions (marriage rights).
1. Recognition of “Reputed Couples” (common-law partners), which enjoy similar legal rights and duties as legally married couples, per judicial findings in HCJ 1000/92 Bavli v. The Great Rabbinical Court (1994);
2. Registration before the Israeli Population Registration of marriages celebrated abroad, which renders the civil (legal) status of reputed and/or same-sex couples equal to that of legally married couples -per the Israeli High Court ruling in Yossi Ben-Ari and others v. Director of Population Administration, Ministry of Interior (2006).
Same-sex marriage is not legal in Israel. However, same-sex marriages celebrated abroad can be registered before the Israeli Population Registry per the Israeli High Court ruling in Yossi Ben-Ari and others v. Director of Population Administration, Ministry of Interior (2006), which renders the civil (legal) status of reputed and/or same-sex couples equal to that of legally married couples.
In June 2021, after several Israeli couples received civil marriage licences onine from the US state of Utah without having to physically travel abroad, the Population Registry announced that it would stop recognising unions issued online from Utah. However, several couples (including same-sex couples) married online filed a lawsuit. A court in Lod ruled in their favour, thus validating their marriages.
So Civil unions and Foreign same-sex marriage are recognized in Israel.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Israel is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Israel is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
A special psychological, medical and psychiatric committee decides for each application whether legal gender recognition can be authorised. According to ILGA, it is not clear what specific rules or procedures these committees adopt.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Israel is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Israel is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT housing discrimination in Israel is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Israel is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Israel is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Israel is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Israel is legal.
Conversion therapy in Israel is banned.
Equal age of consent in Israel is equal.