sentences:  The traditional verse for wedding ceremonies from Psalm 137, "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither..." was used, but replacing "Jerusalem" with "Tel Aviv", Israel's most gay-friendly city.On 4 June 2019, as a protest against the lack of legal recognition of same-sex unions, 23 same-sex couples held an unofficial mass wedding in Tel Aviv.Same-sex marriages performed abroad in a jurisdiction where such marriages are legal can be recorded at the Israeli Administration of Border Crossings, Population and Immigration, according to a November 2006 High Court of Justice ruling which defined such records as strictly "for statistical purposes", thereby avoiding official recognition of same-sex marriages by the state.