Joan Rivers backs surrogacy for Israeli gay couple

Iconic comedienne and Jewish US television personality Joan Rivers recently took a break from dishing out scathing fashion advice to lend her support to an Israeli gay couple struggling to have a child via surrogacy.

The gay icon joined a whole host of Israeli celebrities who responded to a YouTube video that went viral in Israel, depicting the emotional story of Yuval and Liran, an Israeli couple who were trying receive donations and raise awareness about surrogacy for the LGBT community in Israel.

During the video clip, Yuval and Liran hold up signs explaining how laws in Israel discriminate against gay couples by only allowing infertile heterosexual couples to hire surrogates and stipulating that surrogates must be single. As such, gay couples are forced to take their surrogate searches abroad and undertake proceedings that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Rivers, along with her Fashion Police co-stars Kelly Osbourne and George Kotsiopoulos, followed in the footsteps of the Israeli celebrities and released photographs of themselves holding up signs in both Hebrew and English translation, which read “We want them to have a baby too.” Some of the Israeli celebrities who provided their support for the cause included singers Eyal Golan, Harel Skaat, Dudu Aharon and Ninet Tayeb, journalist and TV personality Gal Uchovsky as well as entrepreneur Pnina Rozenblum.

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