Conversion therapy

Health Ministry formally bans LGBTQ+ conversion therapy

While the Health Ministry has recommended against conversion therapy for years, this is the first formal ban.

 Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announces circular banning LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, February 14, 2022
The rainbow flag, commonly known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, is seen during the first Gay Pride parade in Skopje, North Macedonia June 29, 2019

French parliament bans LGBT+ conversion therapy

Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance, June 3, 2021

Google Israel launches campaign to fight conversion therapy practices

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Tel Aviv, Havruta join up to combat LGBTQ+ conversion therapy


Florida court overturns ban on conversion therapy

Conversion therapy aims to change people's sexual orientations or gender identities.

Campaigners place flowers on a multicoloured flag as they protest for LGBT rights in Chechnya outside the Russian embassy in London, Britain June 2, 2017

Stormy Knesset committee meeting debates conversion therapy ban

Multiple times throughout the discussion, participants entered shouting matches, with committee chairman Haim Katz at one point telling two MKs ‘You want to fight? Go outside and go crazy’

Rafael Kelner Polisuk and Shoshana Raizel, two Jewish youth who underwent conversion therapy at a committee meeting on a bill to ban such therapies

Likud to Blue and White: We will only pass coronavirus laws this week

The Likud Party decided to take revenge on their partners in the government after they broke their promise on the vote over the conversion therapy bill.

David Amsalem (Likud)

Joint List may break up due to division on conversion therapy - report

Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas said that the electorate who voted for the list is angry at the support some of its members have shown for the law, and are demanding the dissolution of the list.

AYMAN ODEH, leader of the Joint List, gestures as he hands out pamphlets during an an election campaign event in Tira.

Gay conversion therapy and elections: Time to decide

The main issue that might lead us to an election is the state budget, which must pass by the end of August.

Thousands protest throughout the country after Education Minister Rafi Peretz stated that he supports gay conversion therapy.

Instagram bans 'conversion therapy' content as opposition grows

The United Nations independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity called last month for a global ban on conversion therapy, describing it as "cruel, inhumane and degrading."

The Instagram application is seen on a phone screen August 3, 2017.

Bill aimed at outlawing gay conversion therapy comes to vote

Cannabis legalization also set to come to a vote

ALL COLORS of the rainbow: The LGBT community’s recent mass protest in Tel Aviv.