The news set off shockwaves, not just due to Cherki’s renown as a reporter for the popular Channel 12 news, but also since he was brought up in a well-known conservative national-religious family and community in Jerusalem.
“I love boys, and I love God – and it is not contradictory,” Cherki wrote in his coming-out Facebook post. “I live this conflict between faith and sexual preference all the time. There are those who have solved this conflict [by saying] there is no God, and others [by saying] there is no homosexuality. From my experience I know they both exist.” READ MORE