Current sectionIsrael NewsHaaretz TodayHaaretz Today Same-sex couples in Israel are still forced to perform marriages abroad and are subjected to heavy bureaucracy when trying to register together as a child's parent. This Pride Month, as an election approaches, the LGBTQ community is calling for changeShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribe08:13 PM • June 07 2026 IDTJust before the Jerusalem Pride parade, I stopped by a booth laden with photographs, memorial candles, rainbow flags and flyers in Sacher Park. The booth was dedicated to Sagi's Laws – a battery of proposed bills to grant full equal rights to same-sex couples in Israel.CommentsIn the NewsAn Oct. 7 Hero Made LGBTQ Couples Equal in Death. They Must Be Equal in Life TooTribeca Condemns Palestinian 'Dog Rape' Joke by Israeli Film's ProducerIsraeli Singer Yishai Levi, Prominent Mizrahi Music Star, Dies at 63'France's Grandfather': Jewish Philosopher Edgar Morin Dies at 104IDF Strikes South Beirut, Killing Two, After Hezbollah Fires at Northern IsraelRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIFar-right Israeli Ministers Join Thousands at Israel Day Parade in New York'Israel Is Unstoppable, We Need Other Countries to Get Us Out of This''Fucking Crazy': Trump Lashes Out at Netanyahu Over Lebanon, Report SaysThe Paradigm That Led to Oct. 7 Didn't Collapse, It Was Fiction From the StartHow the U.S. Air Force Is Turning Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport Into Its Own BaseManufactured Nostalgia for Lebanon's Beaufort Masks a Strategic Failure