Israel’s military chief of staff moved to calm gays and lesbians upset by remarks he made that were construed as homophobic. Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz told Yediot Achronot last month that the Israel Defense Forces includes “men and women, and actually there are others, about whom it is forbidden to speak.”
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