http://www.thetower.org/article/for-israeli-gays-its-not-about-the-ring/
This article discusses how the largest concern for the LGBT movement in Israel is not marriage, but surrogacy. Currently, many couples wanting children have to adopt from outside the country or use a foreign surrogate. It has been legal for straight couples in Israel to use a surrogate since 1996, however this is denied to gay couples.
According to the author “This paradox has pushed Israeli gay activists and their allies toward making surrogacy rights their top political priority, much as marriage equality is for American gays. And like marriage, surrogacy has become a lightning-rod for controversy, touching on some of the most loaded issues facing Israel today: sexuality, gender, demography, and religion.”
It is interesting to think that surrogacy would be a more important aspect of their movement (over marriage rights), but both speak to the LGBT community’s desire to have a family and raise children.
-Megan-