Rafi Peretz
ZAKA chairman loses father to COVID while still sitting shiva for mother
"Death has knocked on our door ... landing stroke after stroke on us. All within 30 days. Our pain is as large as the ocean, who shall heal us?," ZAKA chairman Yehuda Meshi Zahav wrote.
Bayit Yehudi to hold leadership primaries, Netanyahu interferes
Jerusalem Affairs Minister Rafi Peretz leaving politics
Jerusalem Botanical Garden to light up for Winter Lights festival
Shaked reaches out to Peretz to begin negotiations to form united list
National Union leader Bezalel Smotrich revealed in an interview with KAN Radio that Peretz is not ruling out letting Shaked head the list.
![Head of New Right party Naftali Bennett [L] and MK Ayelet Shaked [R]](https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_194,w_290/443612 "Head of New Right party Naftali Bennett [L] and MK Ayelet Shaked [R]")
Conversion therapy becomes key to elections
On Thursday, another kind of conversion therapy took center stage.
Rafi Peretz's diplomatic incident and the question of leading questions
My Word: “If you have nothing to say, say nothing."
Middle Israel: The three faces of Israeli secularism
After 10 years, I thought I’d seen everything
For nearly 10 years now, I have come to the public square at the Kotel every Rosh Hodesh (new moon) to stand there, at a distance, and strengthen the Women of the Wall.
Under the radar
Despite the rightful uproar caused by Peretz’s remarks regarding the LGBT community – which he later retracted – another one of his statements seemed to go under the radar.
Media Comment: The steamroller
The brouhaha raised by the media in view of Peretz’s statement on assimilation was but a minor precursor to the media steamroller on Peretz’s comments about the LGBT community.
Rafi Peretz retracts comparison between intermarriage and the Holocaust
The Education minister also reaffirmed that he respects and cherishes “the entire Jewish people, in Israel and in the Diaspora,” according to a letter released by the Jewish Agency.
Bezalel Smotrich opposes criticism of Education Minister Peretz
Peretz was appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the country's education minister in June.
Anti-LGBT Noam Party set to run in September election
The new party is named Noam - A Normal People in Our Land, and has been established by activists connected to the conservative Har Hamor yeshiva in Jerusalem and its president Rabbi Tzvi Tau.
