Yair Sharkey received homophobic comments: "Ugly texts that I am ashamed to repeat" - Voila! celebs. The sweet news reporter shared on his Instagram account that an elderly man he doesn't know followed him in Jerusalem and made ugly comments.

"There is homophobia in the streets of Jerusalem. Thank God, not much. But there is. There is," he wrote. Sharky came out of the closet in a brave and inspiring post exactly one year ago. In a long text he published, he wrote at the time, among other things: "I love boys and the Holy One, blessed be He"