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- This Day In Israel's History
On March 22nd, 1988, The Knesset repealed a holdover law from the British Mandate-era that banned all sex between people of the same gender, the legislation officially made homosexuality 'legal' in Israel making it the first LGBT-tolerant country in the broader region. It should be noted that despite homosexuality being de-facto illegal, the law was not enforced as the general Israeli public was very tolerant, even among those who wholeheartedly disagreed with homosexuality on religious grounds.