Jerusalem mayor is avoiding the gay pride parade, so as not to upset religious right

JERUSALEM – A year after a teenage girl was brutally murdered in a knife attack at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, the march – which is almost never without tension in the Holy City – is once again courting controversy. On Wednesday, popular Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot revealed that the city’s mayor, Nir Barkat, will […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/07/20/jerusalem-mayor-is-avoiding-the-gay-pride-parade-so-as-not-to-upset-religious-right/