Member of the Rishon LeZion City Council ahead of Pride Month: "To hold the abomination parade away from the city center"

Council member and chairman of the Shas faction, Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, made homophobic and blunt statements.

He advised Mayor Raz Kinstlich "to hang the 'abomination flags' only one day - and not for thirty days as hung last year."

Kinstlich: "Dark, shameful and degrading statements. Condemns his words"

Karin Sagi

11/05/2022

Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 22:03 Updated: 22:36

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In the video: Tens of thousands at the Pride Parade in Tel Aviv (Photo: Yotam Ronen, Editing: Tal Reznik)

A member of the Rishon Lezion City Council, Rabbi Aryeh Cohen of the Shas faction, spoke today (Wednesday) in homophobic and blatant statements towards the proud community. Cohen suggested

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the mayor that the Pride Parade be held away from the city center. He also recommended that "abomination flags" be hung for one day only - and not for 30 days as hung last year. The shame?

Is it the municipal employees at the expense of the municipality who hangs the abominations in the city and arranges the arrangements for everything that happens in the city by them? ".

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"Dark statements."

Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, June (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The mayor of Rishon Lezion, Kinstlich, said in response to Cohen's remarks that the purpose of his dark remarks was to make headlines in the media.

"The offers he made are shameful and despicable - especially him," he said.

"We condemn his words and have no place in our city or in a reformed country. These days, instead of fighting hearts, it is sad that there are those who try to incite hatred and non-acceptance of the other. Rishon Lezion is a pluralistic city that accepts all its inhabitants equally - regardless of gender , One tendency or preference or another and so it will remain "

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