Etai Pinkas is a city council member in the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality, in charge of the operational divisions and chair of the city’s tenders committee. He is also a major in the IDF. For more than two decades he has been one of Israel’s LGBT community leaders, has served as chair of the LGBT association of Israel and was the first official LGBT advisor to an Israeli mayor. In his professional life, Pinkas specializes in environmental and infrastructure risk management. He is married to Yoav and a father to 3 daughters.
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Community Tel Aviv Councilman: What I Learned Talking Sexual Identity With Orthodox Educators
For too many years, the LGBT movement in Israel and the Orthodox religious institutions were considered to be rivals in a battle over the nature of the Israeli society. The thriving Israeli LGBT community, which I have been privileged to be part of for the past two decades and lead for several years, has never…
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Community Tel Aviv Councilman: Supreme Court Decision Makes Shabbat Accessible for All
The combination of these two words -– Shabbat and politics — has always stimulated toxic social turmoil in Israel. For decades, the so-called “status quo” about the nature of the seventh day in the public sphere has generated endless attempts to preserve some symbols of the biblical Shabbat in the modern era — in the…
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