Amendments to the relevant law are adopted in the third, outcome reading.
Before the current law allowed using technology of surrogacy only to heterosexual married couples and in the presence of medical indications (if the woman cannot carry out and give birth to the baby by herself).
Now unmarried women, but also in the presence of the medical indications also can address the help to surrogate mother.
“After long and extremely heated discussion, having sustained all objections, the plenum of the Knesset claimed in the third, outcome reading the amendment to “The law on surrogacy” — such message was made by the parliamentary press service. Voted pro 59 deputies, contra — 52.
At the same time the amendment does not extend to lonely men and same-sex married couples. Such marriages are not admitted officially by Israel.