The attack is the second anti-LGBTQ assault reported in Rehovot in the past month.
Uri Lev, a member of the LGBTQ+ community from Rehovot, was assaulted in a suspect anti-LGBTQ attack while outside a bar on Herzl St. in the city over the weekend.
«We wanted to go out to a pub in Rehovot, which isn’t an unenlightened city like Beersheba, Ashkelon, or Jerusalem,» said Lev in a video published to TikTok on Saturday. Lev could be seen in the video with wounds on his face. «Then someone came over, full of self-confidence, and asked if I was gay. I don’t hide it, I am who I am. Suddenly I was on the floor, in my city, in my safe place. I didn’t think it would happen to me. Another statistic.»
The attack is the second anti-LGBTQ assault reported in Rehovot in the past month.
In late July, social media personality Adi Davidov was assaulted while wearing pink and filming a TikTok video outside a mall in the city by young men who threw a stone at his head.
After that attack, the local LGBTQ community held a protest outside the mall against the violence and homophobia in the city.
The Agudah — The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel — condemned the attack, stating «we received another shocking reminder of the violent reality experienced by members of the LGBTQ community.
