Omer Ohana, partner of Shagi Golan who fell in Be'eri on October 7, said from the main stage of the Jerusalem Pride Parade that "the message to every politician ahead of the elections is that we will not settle for promises alone." He added: "Shagi didn't ask who to protect and the state didn't ask him who he loves. After Shagi fell, the state did not recognize me. It did not recognize our love. No one thought about what to do with a gay widower, with a widow who is a common-law partner. Together we passed the Bereaved Families Law. Since then we became equal in death, but even today we are not equal in life."