The Aguda - Municipal LGBTQ - Equality index #4

The Coalition of LGBTQ Organizations in Israel Organizations working together to advance public policy ensuring equal rights and a comprehensive response to the needs of the LGBTQ community.

The Aguda – representing the LGBTQ community in Israel since 1975, and promoting its social and legal status, striving for full equality. The Aguda provides LGBTQ community services and assistance and acts as a platform that integrates different organizations and groups that promote the LGBTQ community in Israel. www.lgbt.org.il aguda@lgbt.org.il The Gila Project – serves as a home for dreams, mutual assistance, change in policy and accessibility, resources, and opportunities for the Trans community. The project offers training for professional staff, accompanying trans individuals, legal aid, and is involved in policy change, emphasizing the needs of the Trans community in the social-economical-geographical-national periphery. www.gilaproject.org The Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance – An organization for social change that operates a multidisciplinary treatment and educational community center to turn Jerusalem into a city where every individual can have the freedom to be themselves, live their lives, and build a liberal, pluralistic model society, where the LGBTQ community has equal rights. 02-6250502 info@www.joh.org.il The LGBTQ Pride House of Be’er Sheva and The South - A home for the LGBTQ community in Be’er Sheva and the South and an umbrella organization for other LGBTQ organizations in the South. It holds social, cultural, and community activities. The house operates actively in the fight for LGBTQ equality and represents the community in the South. pridehouse@eretzir.org.il Israel AIDS Taskforce - The oldest and most prominent organization in Israel dealing with HIV/AIDS. The non-profit organization operates educational, advocacy, and psychosocial services for people living with HIV. Works to promote policy change; deals with discrimination complaints; operates a support line and test clinics for anonymous and rapid HIV and other STIs tests. 03-5613000 mankal@aisdisrael.org.il The LGBTQ Sports Club of Israel - Strives to integrate and strengthen the inclusion of the LGBTQ community in the sports world by empowering its members, training them, forming a community fabric between them, and promoting the sports world to be more inclusive, equal, and accessible to the LGBTQ community. info@tlvsportsclub.com The Communities' House for Pride and Tolerance - The Communities' House for Pride and Tolerance is a local center for LGBTQ communities in Haifa and the North. The house is a safe and inviting space. Our goal is to create a thriving and substantial LGBTQ community by developing LGBTQ culture, building a solid community, and providing diverse responses to the unique needs of the LGBTQ community. 04-6657668 lgbt.haifa@gmail.com The Society for LGBTQ Health - One of the professional societies of the Israeli Medical Association. The society started in 2017, intending to expand the necessary knowledge base and proficiency to ensure high-quality medical treatment for the LGBTQ community. Distribution of medical information, advocacy and fighting LGBTQ-phobia among medical staff, promoting health among the LGBTQ community, encouraging research, and influencing decision-making and policy related to LGBTQ health. lgbt.med@ima.org.il Bat Kol – The religious LBTQ women's organization – the only organization in Israel that is a home and a community for women, operating for a female LBTQ voice in both the Israeli LGBTQ community and religious circles. They are partners in the coalition of religious LGBTQ organizations. 050-6449419 info@bat-kol.org Tehila – A non-profit organization that provides social and emotional support by parents for parents and family members of LGBTQ individuals. The organization holds support groups for families across the country, special groups for the religious community, groups of parents of transgender children, and meetings with young individuals that are part of IGY. In addition, Tehila also advocates through meetings of personal testimonies across the country. 09-8855822 www.tehila.org.il

The Israeli LGBTQ Student Association creates communities and operates on over 30 campuses nationwide. In addition, it operates a student residential community network and several national professional communities in health, education, and care. The association is a home for LGBTQ students on campus and creates a social LGBTQ space with equal rights and tolerance for the LGBTQ community in academia. achvalgbt.org.il students@lgbt.org.il Alliance Lioness – The organization for families of individuals who identify as transgender or are gender variant. The organization's goal is to implement support and reaffirm transgender children within families, institutional frameworks, and the Israeli society as a whole, and by that, take care of their well-being. 052-8907769 alliancelioness@gmail.com Havruta – An LGBTQ organization serving the religious community, operating inwards for community empowerment and outwards for acceptance of LGBTQ individuals in the religious community, strengthening the Jewish identity in the LGBTQ community. 050-3693868 Info@havruta.org.il Ma'avarim – Israeli Trans Community – Empowering the trans community through knowledge and resources. The organization operates to make knowledge accessible for trans individuals, their friends and families, and professionals; Develop activities and address local needs; and promote policy change to benefit trans and gender variant people. 052-4776707 Info@maavarim.org Shoval – Shoval (“That everything was created in His honor”) is a dialogue and advocacy organization for accepting LGBTQ individuals in the religious community. 058-5464004 info@shovalgroup.org The LGBT Center - The home for the LGBTQ community in Tel Aviv, and a framework for national activities, leading processes of community building, and addressing the needs of many non-ununionized groups. The center holds many social and therapeutic group meetings, performances, shows, parties, exhibitions, projects combating loneliness in senior members, mentoring and employment for transgender individuals, an LGBTQ clinic, and more. 073-3844242 office@lgbtqcenter.org.il Trans Israel - The nonprofit organization was established in 2020 to promote trans-women rights in Israel, regardless of race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation. The organization manages the Trans Home Project. 052-300-5280 www.transisrael.org.il The LGBTQ Frameworks of Otot - Otot addresses the needs of teenagers, and at-risk youth, including providing shelter and out-of-home settings, utilization of rights, and the tools to live functional lives in Israeli society. The organization operates two long-term and two short-term hostels for the LGBTQ community. 02-6710095 mail@otot-il.org.il LGBTech - The organization promotes diversity and inclusion of the LGBTQ community in the Israeli workforce. We aim to ensure employers in all sectors of Israel have sufficient professional knowledge of the unique employment needs of LGBTQ individuals and the tools to meet these needs. 054-3388023 info@lgbtech.com 03-6102142 IGY - The LGBTQ Israeli youth organization operates in hundreds of groups, centers, and clubs in dozens of municipalities and local authorities, from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat. The organization has about 400 volunteers and more than 4,000 members between the ages of 18-23 participating in ongoing activities throughout the year. office@igy.co.il Hoshen - The educational and advocacy organization for the Israeli LGBTQ community. The goal of the organization is to promote tolerance of topics related to sexual orientation and gender identity, eradicate LGBTQ phobia in Israeli society, and train professionals to work with the LGBTQ community. Hoshen operates with diverse groups of students, teachers, kindergarten teachers, universities, medical staff, security forces, and businesses. 052-6533060 office@hoshen.org

www.igy.org.il

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LGBTech

www.joh.org.il

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TransIsrael

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TLV LGBTQ Center

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www.shovalgroup.org

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