Saar Netanel


Saar Netanel was a Jerusalem city council member and was one of the owners of Jerusalem’s only gay pub at the time it closed in 2007. He was the first openly gay man elected to an Israeli city council. Netanel was chairman of the Jerusalem Meretz branch.
A riot broke out at Wigstock “98 and four were arrested. Netanel, who was chair of Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s LGBT student union, Ha'Asiron Ha'Acher, was one of the people arrested.

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