JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality will recognize same-sex, interfaith and other couples who are not eligible to be married by the state’s religious authorities.
Those couples who live together will be allowed to register their relationship with a statement to the city. They will be eligible for municipal benefits, including housing tax discounts, and easier enrollment of their children into public daycares and schools.
Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai made the announcement, in honor of the city’s Pride Week, on Sunday.
The recognition on the municipal level has no impact on recognition or lack of it on the national level, according to the Kan national broadcaster. Same-sex and interfaith marriages are not performed by the Orthodox-controlled rabbinate and those performed in Israel are not recognized by the state. Marriages performed outside of Israel can be registered with the state.
“We hope the government also will move towards the 21st century and promote in law the rights of the (LGBT) community — the right to marry, to equal parenting, to protection from hate crimes and workplace bullying and more,” Huldai said.
Tel Aviv announced in May that it would postpone its annual Pride Parade, held each year in June, due to the coronavirus. Last year, it had some 250,000 participants, including thousands of tourists.
Now I understand why Iran is building nukes. I’m changing my mind on buying a house in Israel. Safest place is Brooklyn. Not one store in the jewish frum areas got looted. Only in manhattan and the Bronx. Brooklyn is safe because we have so much Torah.
Recognize? What does that mean? I’m a brilliant lawyer, and even I cannot understand how that’s possible.
Israel is getting hit again with corona. I guess they keep rebelling against the Torah. Where are the chareidim.
Does that mean these marriages are only valid in Tel Aviv not elsewhere. If I want to marry my donkey will they approve the marriage?
Why would anyone be surprised? Israel is after all a country like the rest of the world. This is exactly what Herzl and Ben-Gourion wanted.
True Torah observant Jews are not shocked at all. Even if Israel would of been everything Al Pi Torah still it is forbidden to have a state before the coming of Moshicah.
To phineas
You ask why towns were wiped out where Torah was learnt.
Simple. The gemorrah in Shabbos answers your question.
They did not protest.
Where are the protesters against the gays. It’s not enough to be chareidi. That’s why Israel is in trouble.
Moshe good point
Since when do municipalities have that authority?
““We hope the government also will move towards the 21st century and promote in law the rights of the (LGBT)”
Such a movement is actually backward, going back thousands of years, when such things were recognized by the city of Sodom.
Sodom? You guys mean NY where your religious leaders pu$$hed Orthodox to vote for sodomite democrats who are despoiilng the streets , schools and open media filth ?
You jokers worry about Israel ?
A frum kid can’t walk the shmutz sts. of NY and you hypocrites helped it along.