(3 Jun 2016) Colourful drag queens and bare-chested men danced on floats along with thousands of others from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community at Tel Aviv's annual gay pride parade, the largest event of its kind in the Middle East.
Reports said 200,000 people from Israel and abroad attended on Friday.
Israel is widely tolerant of gays and Tel Aviv has emerged as one of the world's most gay-friendly travel destinations.
The city stands in sharp contrast the rest of the Middle East, where homosexuals lack freedoms and are persecuted.
The annual Tel Aviv Pride Parade is fully sponsored by the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality.
But homosexuality is often shunned in religiously observant Jewish and Muslim communities in the country.
Jerusalem, known for its rich religious history and tradition, holds a more modest pride parade.
A ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed a girl to death at that parade in 2015.
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