Foreign Minister Yair Lapid instructed his ministry to raise an LGBTQ Pride flag outside its main offices in Jerusalem for the first time on Monday, in honor of Pride Month.
“The Foreign Ministry and its workers are leading a message of tolerance, brotherhood and freedom,” Lapid tweeted.
לראשונה אי פעם הוריתי הבוקר להניף במשרד החוץ את דגל הגאווה לרגל אירועי חודש הגאווה. משרד החוץ ועובדיו מובילים מסר של סובלנות, אחווה וחופש. pic.twitter.com/XU1tsx3ESD— יאיר לפיד – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) June 21, 2021
Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll, who is gay, said that raising the rainbow flag is “important news domestically and abroad.”
“I remember myself as a 16-year-old boy, with worries about the future, and I hope that this moment reassures young men and women throughout Israel and the world and sends a message of tolerance and acceptance to all of Israeli society,” Roll said.
In response, Religious Zionist MK Itamar Ben-Gvir called the flag a “cheap provocation” that “insults religious sensitivities.”
“I don’t have a problem with LGBT people; we are all brothers,” Ben-Gvir said. “But at the same time, waving the flag doesn’t serve them. Rather, it hurts them and turns them into pawns in Lapid’s hands. The central problem is the extroversion and provocation to which Israeli children are exposed.”
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