Monday, December 28, 2015

Soon-to-be-Likud MK Ohana hopes to make LGBT rights a bipartisan issue

By LAHAV HARKOV for JPost.com

Amir Ohana is the head and founder of the Likud Pride Group, an LGBT interest group within the leading party.


Amir Ohana did not wait to become an MK to start spending time in the Knesset.

Ohana, 39, with a life partner and twins, is expected to be sworn in as a lawmaker next week, instead of Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, who resigned in light of sexual misconduct allegations. But Ohana was already frequenting the halls of the Knesset and Likud faction meetings in recent months, preparing for when it would be his turn.

The head and founder of the Likud Pride Group, an LGBT interest group within the leading party, who will soon be the first openly gay Likud MK, spoke to The Jerusalem Post on Monday about his plans and expectations.

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