I knew I was attracted to boys. At the age of 13 it was clear that something had to be done about it

At the age of 13, I fell in love with my girlfriend. We were together for almost a year, without knowing it was forbidden. After seven months, someone saw us and shouted at us, -Hey lesbians

The people of Israel will remember Roy, the pseudonym by which most of us were known... "Change or death." And Roy was unable to change. And he really wanted to. And if there is no change, there is death

"Conversion treatments are pushing us to the edge, and my teammate committed suicide" (from Ynet)

At the first meeting, a religious and kind man sat across from us, but he lacked any therapeutic qualifications.

He asked me to watch a pornographic film, with only women in it, and he wanted to know if it changed anything, if it strengthened my masculinity

Daniel underwent alternative conversion therapy, he said. After telling his parents about his sexual orientation, he was sent for treatment that lasted about 15 nightly sessions at a kollel in central Israel, accompanied by two close people

I hated myself during those years. After the treatments I felt exhausted, defiled and worthless. I felt like my life was slowly dying, that with each treatment I was dying more and more from the inside- (from Ynet)

For the first time, he drew a large rectangle on paper in front of me with a line in the middle. "On the right are the righteous and on the left are the wicked," he explained, and asked: "Which side do you want to be on?" I remained silent out of fear. "The answer is clear, I can see it in your eyes," he said.

I went there despite the terrible fear that was in me, because the second option – to remain naked and perverted – was even more frightening, and I still hadn't reached the point where I wanted to commit suicide. And what about the option of coming out of the closet? It simply didn't exist for me - Y.C.'s testimony

​He was forbidden to speak to his mother and sisters and felt like he was suffocating, but the goal was more important than anything.