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Although the idea of a vibrant queer community in Israel, reputed birthplace of the biblical condemnation of same-sex relations, may seem far-fetched, Israel today is one of the world’s most progressive countries in terms of equality for sexual minorities. Inside the bookazine you’ll get to intimately know a dozen local men from the local LGBTQ community, comprising representatives from the city's sizeable Jewish, Arab, and post-Soviet cohorts.

Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land features interviews with an incredibly diverse group of local men including a gay member of Israel's parliament, a trainer who served openly in the army, a young Arab-Israel journalist, and a pair of dads raising their children. Since 1 June , gay and bisexual men in Israel have been allowed to legally donate blood following a one-year deferral period.

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[92] However, no deferral was in place for lesbians or bisexual women. My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land. Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching. In that perspective, we are pretty progressive.

Read a review of the podcast episode on AWiderBridge. It was a show about teens, performed by teen actors, which actually came to an end after its third season when the star actors were all conscripted into the army. This was at the same time a groundbreaking and entirely ordinary TV series about two gay guys in Tel Aviv who have a baby with a straight woman.

I met with Kobi Paz in the backyard of his Tel Aviv apartment. Together they are also two abba s. And this would be why Kobi strikes me as such a great person to begin our Imagine Israel podcast series. So, join us as we sit outside in the Tel Aviv backyard with a beer, with the mosquitos, and with the neighborhood cats, talking about LGBT rights, about TV in Israel, and of course about Jewish mothers.

Robbie Gringras: Good to meet you. Good to meet you. Good to see you. What does that stand for? Kobi Paz: And the series go with them the first year of the time together with the new boy. Robbie Gringras: So, TV series in Israel, two gay guys bringing a child into the world, together with another woman.

Is this something which TV often deals with in Israel?

Kobi Paz: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this issue that — issue of the new family, is pretty new in the Israeli —. It seems like an interesting combination of the anti-establishment push of LGBT world together with the biggest establishment ever of family. Kobi Paz: In Israel especially, these new families that combine any — this kind of family or similar ones, are very, very popular.

In Israel there are hundreds of children that was born, in the last ten years, to gay people, in many, many combination, different combinations. How does this play out in the TV series itself? Who are they? Kobi Paz: Okay, the guys in the show are Sammy and Erez. Sammy comes from a very religious house, Sepharadim Mizrachi. His mother getting a hard time to accept that he lives with a man.

And this is very sad for Sammy because all he wants is to make go make her happy, like every Jewish son. Kobi Paz: Maybe like every boy in the world. Erez, on the other hand, is a secular man, he believes in nothing. Kobi Paz: Yeah — Sammy comes from a difficult house but loves himself and accept himself. Erez come from a very progressive house. But having big problems with themself —. Robbie Gringras: And so in this complicated relationship anyway, they decide to have a child.

And how do all the various people around their lives and in their lives respond to this?