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things. The couple filed a lawsuit on grounds of discrimination based on sexual orientation. The lower court judge ruled in favour of the couple based on a year 2000 law forbidding discrimination in public places. In June 2014, the appeal by Yad HaShmona was denied by the
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The community runs a guesthouse (Yad
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In 2008, a lesbian couple married in the UK wanted to hold a wedding party for their friends and family at the banquet hall in Yad HaShmona. After Yad HaShmona learned the couple was not a straight couple, the venue cancelled the reservation, calling homosexuality "an abomination", among other
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The garden gives visitors a glimpse into the spiritual, physical and agricultural world of the Jewish people in
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