Thousands of Israelis on the street against a law banning gay couples from gay couples

Tel-Aviv – Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Sunday, including in Tel Aviv, against a law that excludes same-bad couples from the right to use surrogacy (GPA).
  

The police did not give figures on the number of protesters but the daily Haaretz mentioned the presence of some 60,000 people in Yitzhak Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.

The call for demonstrations and a strike Sunday was launched after Parliament voted on Wednesday to allow a surrogate mother for single or infertile women, but banning same-bad couples and to single men.

Previously, this right was only granted in Israel to married heterobadual couples.

One of Tel Aviv's main thoroughfares was blocked on Sunday for twenty minutes by hundreds of protesters.

In the center of Jerusalem, traffic was also blocked by protesters, two of whom were arrested, a police spokesman told AFP.

Some 200 companies have announced that they allow their employees who wish to do so not to work to protest without this day being cut off from their holidays.

" This is a symbolic measure, but one that expresses real support ," said Julien Bahloul, spokesman for the Association of Gay Fathers of Israel.

" We demand equality for the LGBT community ", told AFP Chen Arieli, present on Yitzhak Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. According to her, the protesters are not only demonstrating for the GPA, but for the safety of homobaduals on the street.

In 2015, a 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death by an ultra-Orthodox Jew at Gay Pride.

Several companies also announced that they were ready to contribute the equivalent of more than $ 15,000 (12,700 euros) to the expenses incurred by homobadual couples forced to use surrogacy abroad.

According to Mr. Bahloul, homobadual couples wishing to have children must find a surrogate mother in the United States or Canada, which amounts to more than $ 100,000, whereas if the surrogacy was allowed in Israel, the cost would be two times less.

Israel is considered a pioneer country in terms of gay and bad rights, but homobaduality remains a taboo in religious circles, very influential in the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, considered the most right of the history of the Hebrew State.

Opposition MP Ofer Shelah (center) said Sunday he had gathered enough signatures from parliamentarians to force the prime minister to come to Parliament to explain the controversial law.

According to the public television channel 11, the Israeli Supreme Court is to consider in the coming days a request from two male couples against the law.