Category Archives: Surrogacy
President Shimon Peres yesterday joined the campaign to allow a gay father to bring his infant twin sons
May 20, 2010 President Shimon Peres yesterday joined the campaign to allow a gay father to bring his infant twin sons, who were born to a surrogate mother in India, to Israel. Dan Goldberg has been stranded with the twins in a Mumbai hotel for two months, due to the Interior Ministry’s refusal to administer […]
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Dan Goldberg is set to return home to Jerusalem in the coming days with his newborn twins Itai and Liron
Dan Goldberg is set to return home to Jerusalem in the coming days with his newborn twins Itai and Liron. Goldberg, a gay man, has been fighting a legal battle with Israel’s authorities since the babies were born two months ago. Goldberg is represented by NIF grantee New Family: Organization for Family Rights. Goldberg, 45 […]
להמשך קריאה Gay father of surrogates stuck in India / By RUTH EGLASH
Dan Goldberg appeals to Peres for help bring twins to Israel. A homosexual father of twins born to a surrogate mother in India two months ago has appealed to President Shimon Peres for help in enabling him and the babies to enter Israel after being initially turned down by the Jerusalem Family Court. Jerusalem resident […]
להמשך קריאה Advocate Irit Rosenblum: The Ministry of Health is Preventing a Widower from Bringing His Children to the World
The Ministry of Health will not allow a 40-year old widower to actualize his right to parenthood and to execute his deceased wife’s will to bring their children to the world. New Family organization, which is handling the case, asks to respect the widower’s right to parenthood and to carry out his deceased wife’s will. […]
להמשך קריאה Man wants child from dead wife’s embryos / By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
A-G deliberates on widowed would-be dad. The Health Ministry would not comment Tuesday on charges that it has refused to allow a 40- year-old man to use his late wife’s embryos to produce their genetic children using a surrogate mother. The man, N., whose wife died last year, has expressed her wishes that after her […]
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Legal precedent: a man can adopt the child of his spouse
By: Gilad Grossman, Walla! News Until now, the law did not allow homosexuals to adopt the children of their partners, because the child has two official parents. Thursday, the court ruled that a man could adopt the biological son of his partner. Family Court in Jerusalem ruled Thursday for the first time that a man […]
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Legal ruling will allow gay men to adopt partner’s child
By RUTH EGLASH “This is a big step for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in Israel,” commented lawyer Irit Rosenblum. A breakthrough legal ruling in the Jerusalem Family Court on Thursday will pave the way for homosexuals to officially adopt their partner’s or spouse’s child, the Tel Aviv-based New Family organization told The […]
להמשך קריאה New Family fills a crucial gap in the theory and practice of law and human rights
New Family fills a crucial gap in the theory and practice of law and human rights, by working for equal family rights for all residents of Israel, including the rights to marry, divorce, have children, register spouses and children, and conduct family life regardless of religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, or status. Since 1998, New […]
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Some Families Don’t Count
Some families don’t count. New Family founder and executive director Irit Rosenblum said in response to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics that some families won’t be included in those statistics. She says, ‘Close to 200,000 families in Israel will not find themselves in the statistics gathered by the Central Bureau of Statistics […]
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