Shas head Eli Yishai has announced that his party will work to prevent homosexual adoptions. Welfare Minister Yitzchak Herzog said Sunday that he would implement a new policy allowing homosexual couples to adopt a child, while until now those in homosexual relationships have only been allowed to adopt their partner’s biological children.
Yishai said the initiative was “one of a series of ideas meant to blur the Jewish backbone of the people of Israel.” Herzog’s proposal violates coalition agreements, he said, and will not be implemented.