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JERUSALEM--Despite fierce opposition from conservative and religious lawmakers, Israel's parliament is considering legislation to grant gay couples equality in tax benefits.
The bill would allow gay couples to claim the same tax deductions as heterosexuals. The existing rules for child-related tax credits favor mothers and single fathers, but deny the credits to fathers in same-sex couples.
The measure, proposed by lawmaker Adi Kol of the Yesh Atid party, part of the ruling coalition, was initially shot down by a ministerial committee that serves as a gateway for legislation headed to parliament. However, it passed the committee on Sunday and will face a preliminary vote in parliament later this week.
Kol said she welcomed the initial approval as a "clear message" that Israel recognizes same-sex couples as equal parents and a "legitimate family unit."
Religious parties have stopped Israel from enacting many of the anti-discrimination laws for gays and lesbians that exist in European countries and in much of the United States, including same-sex marriage and laws giving gay and lesbian couples the same rights to adopt children as heterosexual couples.
Lawmakers from the Jewish Home, another coalition party with conservative and mostly religious members, said they are concerned that Kol's legislation would be a step in a "silent revolution" that could upset the religious status quo.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_IsraelSame-sex marriage cannot legally be performed in Israel. Under the confessional community system that operates in Israel, each of the recognised confessional communities regulates the personal status, including marriage and divorce, of its members. The religious authority for Jewish marriages is the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and there are parallel authorities for Christians, Muslims, Druze and nine Christian authorities, with a total of 15 religious courts. These regulate all marriages and divorces for their own communities. Currently they all oppose same-sex marriages. If the views of one of these bodies were to change, however, it would be legal for members of that religious community to enter into same-sex marriages in Israel.
Same-sex marriages performed abroad can be recorded at the Israeli Administration of Border Crossings, Population and Immigration, according to a 2006 High Court of Justice ruling which defined such records as strictly 'for statistical purposes', thereby avoiding official recognition of same-sex marriages by the state.[1]
Notwithstanding the nonavailability of same-sex marriage (or civil marriage, for that matter) in Israel, unmarried same-sex and heterosexual couples in Israel have equal access to nearly all of the rights of marriage in the form of unregistered cohabitation status, akin to common-law marriage. In 2013, the Yesh Atid party, a member of the governing coalition, introduced a bill that would provide for civil marriage for both heterosexual and same-sex couples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_IsraelSame-sex marriage cannot legally be performed in Israel. Under the confessional community system that operates in Israel, each of the recognised confessional communities regulates the personal status, including marriage and divorce, of its members. The religious authority for Jewish marriages is the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and there are parallel authorities for Christians, Muslims, Druze and nine Christian authorities, with a total of 15 religious courts. These regulate all marriages and divorces for their own communities. Currently they all oppose same-sex marriages. If the views of one of these bodies were to change, however, it would be legal for members of that religious community to enter into same-sex marriages in Israel.
Same-sex marriages performed abroad can be recorded at the Israeli Administration of Border Crossings, Population and Immigration, according to a 2006 High Court of Justice ruling which defined such records as strictly 'for statistical purposes', thereby avoiding official recognition of same-sex marriages by the state.[1]
Notwithstanding the nonavailability of same-sex marriage (or civil marriage, for that matter) in Israel, unmarried same-sex and heterosexual couples in Israel have equal access to nearly all of the rights of marriage in the form of unregistered cohabitation status, akin to common-law marriage. In 2013, the Yesh Atid party, a member of the governing coalition, introduced a bill that would provide for civil marriage for both heterosexual and same-sex couples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_IsraelSame-sex marriage cannot legally be performed in Israel. Under the confessional community system that operates in Israel, each of the recognised confessional communities regulates the personal status, including marriage and divorce, of its members. The religious authority for Jewish marriages is the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and there are parallel authorities for Christians, Muslims, Druze and nine Christian authorities, with a total of 15 religious courts. These regulate all marriages and divorces for their own communities. Currently they all oppose same-sex marriages. If the views of one of these bodies were to change, however, it would be legal for members of that religious community to enter into same-sex marriages in Israel.
Same-sex marriages performed abroad can be recorded at the Israeli Administration of Border Crossings, Population and Immigration, according to a 2006 High Court of Justice ruling which defined such records as strictly 'for statistical purposes', thereby avoiding official recognition of same-sex marriages by the state.[1]
Notwithstanding the nonavailability of same-sex marriage (or civil marriage, for that matter) in Israel, unmarried same-sex and heterosexual couples in Israel have equal access to nearly all of the rights of marriage in the form of unregistered cohabitation status, akin to common-law marriage. In 2013, the Yesh Atid party, a member of the governing coalition, introduced a bill that would provide for civil marriage for both heterosexual and same-sex couples
Israel is the most tolerant of homosexuality in the Middle East and its not even close.
Israel is the most tolerant of homosexuality in the Middle East and its not even close.
True, in all the other countries the response to homosexuals in any situation is "shoot/stone/hang" them, with lesbians of course, being raped prior to said shoot/stone/hanging.
