Likud taps its first openly gay MK to replace Shalom
As No. 32 on the Likud list of prospective parliamentarians, Amir Ohana, head of the right-wing party’s gay forum, is set to enter the Knesset this week after veteran member of Knesset and Interior Minister Silvan Shalom’s resignation Sunday amid numerous complaints of sexual harassment.
Ohana, a lawyer by training who is also a major in the reserves and a veteran of the Shin Bet domestic security service, will be the first openly gay MK in a right-wing party and only the second in the current Knesset.
“It was expected that I would enter at some point during the current Knesset,” Ohana said to Channel 2 Sunday evening. “At the same time, it unfortunately happened under unhappy circumstances. I will do my best for the State of Israel.”
Living in Tel Aviv with his partner and their four-month-old twins, whom they brought to Israel after a surrogacy process in the US, Ohana has been active in promoting LGBT rights among his party’s representatives
http://www.timesofisrael.com/likud-taps-its-first-openly-gay-mk-to-replace-shalom/
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