Associated Press reports. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that the surrogacy laws, which were expanded to allow access to single mothers but not to same-sex couples, “disproportionately harmed the right to equality and the right to parenthood” and were therefore unlawful.
While the changes didn’t go into effect immediately, the government gave then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a year to write a new law; however, Israel's legislature, the Knesset, was unable to meet that deadline.
In July 2021, the court stated, “since for more than a year the state has done nothing to advance an appropriate amendment to the law, the court ruled that it cannot abide the continued serious damage to human rights caused by the existing surrogacy.