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'''Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender''' ([[LGBT]]) people in [[Israel]] are considered to have more [[rights]] than anywhere else in the Middle East.<ref>{{cite news
      | date = 2008-09-17
      | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/taboo-tolerance/the-five-most-improved-places-for-gay-tolerance-932635.html
      | quote = Israel is the only Middle-Eastern country to support gay rights legislation, and the country attracts gay people from Palestine and Lebanon.
      | accessdate = 2009-05-29
      | work = [[The Independent]]
      | title = The five most improved places for gay tolerance
      | location=London}}</ref> In November 2005, a groundbreaking (which has not happened before) court decision in [[Israel]] ruled that a lesbian spouse could officially adopt a child born to her current partner by artificial insemination from an anonymous sperm donor; this ruling came despite protests by the minority [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] parliamentary parties. Common law [[marriage]], which grants most of the official marriage rights to the spouse has been achieved, but full official [[same-sex marriage]] has not yet been sanctioned. However, same-sex marriages performed elsewhere are recognized.  

==Summary table==
{| class="wikitable"
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| Same-sex sexual activity legal
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] (Since 1963 ''[[de facto]]'', (Since 1988 ''[[de jure]]'')
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| Equal age of consent
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]  
|-
| Anti-discrimination laws in employment only
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] (Since 1992)
|-
| Anti-discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] (Since 2000)
|-
| Anti-discrimination laws in all other areas (incl. indirect discrimination, hate speech)
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|No]] (Since 1997)
|-
| Anti-discrimination laws concerning gender identity  
| [[File:X mark.svg|15px|No]]
|-
| Same-sex marriages
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[File:X mark.svg|15px|No]] (Same-sex marriage from abroad recognised since 2006)<ref name="elyon1.court.gov.il"/>{{cite web |url=http://elyon1.court.gov.il/files_eng/05/450/030/a09/05030450.a09.htm |title=Judgement of the Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice }}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|-
| Recognition of same-sex couples  
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] (Unregistered cohabitation since 1994)
|-
| Step-child adoption by same-sex couples
| [[ImagFile:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] (Since 2005)
|-
| Joint adoption by same-sex couples
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] (Since 2008)
|-
| Gays and lesbians allowed to serve openly in the military
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] (Since 1993)
|-
| Right to change legal gender
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]
|-
| Access to IVF for lesbians
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]
|-
| [[Conversion therapy]] banned by law
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[File:X mark.svg|15px|No]] (Practice of conversion therapy in the public health system banned since 2014)
|-
| Commercial surrogacy for gay male couples
| [[ImagFile:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] (Since 2014)
|-
| Altruistic surrogacy for gay male couples  
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[File:X mark.svg|15px|No]] (Surrogacy for Israeli gay male couples is possible only abroad)
|-
| [[Immigration equality]] and rights for LGBT individuals and same-sex couples  
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] (Since 2016)<ref name="pink"/>[http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/12/10/israel-is-to-begin-recognising-same-sex-marriage-as-an-equal-route-to-citizenship/ Israel is to begin recognising same-sex marriage as an equal route to citizenship] Pink News</ref>
|-
| [[Men who have sex with men|MSM]]s allowed to donate blood
| [[File:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] {{ref|b|B}} (No deferral Since 2018)
|}
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* {{note|b|B}} No restriction if last [[Men who have sex with men|MSM]] activity was before 1977.

==References==
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[[Category:LGBT rights by country|Israel]]
[[Category:Politics of Israel]]


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