(ANSA) - TEL AVIV, AUGUST 19 - Israel will remove the restrictions in force on the donation of blood by homosexuals from 1 October. This was announced by the health minister NitzanHorowitz who spoke of "historical fact".
"Discrimination against gay males - explained Horowitz, himself a homosexual - is over. When I became a minister I ordered the removal of the degrading and irrelevant questions set out in the donation questionnaire, the legacy of a stereotype that belongs to history. There is no difference between blood and blood ".
The Israeli LGBT movement thanked the minister for "this important decision". (HANDLE).