Raday

Only then did homosexuality in the IDF "became totally a non-issue," said Frances Raday, a professor of international law at the College of Management Academic Studies in the city of Rishon Lezion.

Israel a Model (of Sorts) on Gays in the Military Josh Fleet 2010

Only then did homosexuality in the IDF "became totally a non-issue," said Frances Raday, a professor of international law at the College of Management Academic Studies in the city of Rishon Lezion.

Israel a Model (of Sorts) on Gays in the Military The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Even with the heavy influence Israel's ultra-conservative religious political parties wield in parliament, the country has "an extremely liberal stand on homosexuality," said Raday.

Israel a Model (of Sorts) on Gays in the Military Josh Fleet 2010

Even with the heavy influence Israel's ultra-conservative religious political parties wield in parliament, the country has "an extremely liberal stand on homosexuality," said Raday.

Israel a Model (of Sorts) on Gays in the Military The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Only then did homosexuality in the IDF "became totally a non-issue," said Frances Raday, a professor of international law at the College of Management Academic Studies in the city of Rishon Lezion.

Israel a Model (of Sorts) on Gays in the Military The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Only then did homosexuality in the IDF "became totally a non-issue," said Frances Raday, a professor of international law at the College of Management Academic Studies in the city of Rishon Lezion.

Israel a Model (of Sorts) on Gays in the Military Josh Fleet 2010

Even with the heavy influence Israel's ultra-conservative religious political parties wield in parliament, the country has "an extremely liberal stand on homosexuality," said Raday.

Israel a Model (of Sorts) on Gays in the Military Josh Fleet 2010

Even with the heavy influence Israel's ultra-conservative religious political parties wield in parliament, the country has "an extremely liberal stand on homosexuality," said Raday.

Israel a Model (of Sorts) on Gays in the Military The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Of the group, only Walter Rodney, a professor of history, who was later assassinated as leader of the opposition in Guyana, agreed with Raday: “There are no colonizers and colonized between Jews and Arabs, only two peoples deprived by history of a homeland and fighting over one miserable strip of land.”

Frances Raday. 2009

From 1964 to 1966 Raday worked as a research assistant in the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, where she found herself in an elite environment: the director of the international law section in which she worked was Lord Denning.

Frances Raday. 2009