Thousands of Israelis take to the streets in a call marked by the minister in charge of police in the city, who participated in a counter-march in the past that compared homosexuals to beasts. The Pride March in Jerusalem has always been a kind of pike in Flanders, unlike the one in Tel Aviv, just 50 kilometers away, much more crowded and festive.
In 2015, a radical ultra-Orthodox Jew, Yishai Schlissel, stabbed to death a 16-year-old participant, Shira Banki.