Police were criticized at the time for failing to stop the perpetrator, Yishai Schlissel, who had also carried out a similar attack on marchers in 2005.
Many of Israel's strictly religious communities consider homosexuality to be a sin.Īt the city's pride march two years ago, 16-year-old Shira Banki was fatally stabbed by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who also attacked five other participants. This year's parade also comes in the wake of recent clashes over the management of the city's controversial holy site, the Temple Mount. The Gay Pride event has long been a source of tension between Jerusalem's secular minority and its Jewish Orthodox population.
Yishai Schlissel is serving a life sentence
