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.

Yehuda Meshi Zahav
Bayit Yehudi leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz

Bayit Yehudi to hold leadership primaries, Netanyahu interferes

Rafi Peretz at the weekly cabinet meeting, March 2020.

Jerusalem Affairs Minister Rafi Peretz leaving politics

Winter Lights festival at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens.

Jerusalem Botanical Garden to light up for Winter Lights festival


US, Germany, Mexico, 6 others seek to ban gay 'conversion therapy'

LGBT+ people - some children - have undergone abuses like lobotomies, castration and masturbatory reconditioning in the past, in a bid to change their sexual orientation or gender identity, ILGA said

Thousands protest throughout the country after Education Minister Rafi Peretz stated that he supports gay conversion therapy.

Israel Prize for Torah Literature awarded to Rabbi Yaakov Ariel

The 82-year-old Ariel is the former chief rabbi of Ramat Gan and a pillar of the religious Zionist community, but has not been free of controversy.

Rabbi Yaakov Ariel

Naftalli Bennett and the trials of Religious Zionism

Religious Zionism was never in a position to lead the Zionist enterprise, though it was part of it since 1902

Naftali Bennett and Rafi Peretz – allies in the right-wing party Yamina

Bayit Yehudi plotting to bring down leader Rafi Peretz

A meeting has been called by Bayit Yehudi MK Moti Yogev and former MK and deputy defense minister Eli Ben-Dahan for party members to discuss ways to “renew and rehabilitate” Bayit Yehudi.

Israel's Education minister Rafi Peretz

Israelis shocked by Rafi Peretz's latest homophobic comments

Itamar Ben Gvir, the head of the Otzma Yehudit party, expressed shock at the uproar, telling 103FM that he “doesn’t understand the assault on Rafi Peretz. What, have we turned into Iran?"

LGBTQ youth protest against far right Noam party at Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem

Rafi Peretz under fire after newest wave of homophobic comments

Education Minister Rafi Peretz, in an interview with Yediot Aharonot, additionally spoke of deporting children of illegal immigrants and limiting Palestinians to vote in local elections alone.

MK Rafi Peretz, 2019.

Rafi Peretz: I'm not prepared to compromise on our Jewish identity

Peretz also rejected accusations that his recent unity deal with the far-right Otzma Yehudi party, was designed to preserve his leadership of the religious-Zionist political camp

Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks at The Jerusalem Post-Maariv Group Conference, December 25, 2019

Bayit Yehudi in ‘existential crisis’ as Peretz pressured to allow primary

These demands have come from Bayit Yehudi deputy mayors, municipal council members and local party branch chiefs who have denounced what they describe as an assault on the party’s institutions.

Bayit Yehudi leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz

Bayit Yehudi leaders rebuke Rafi Peretz over union with far-right Otzma

Bayit Yehudi officials said that party leader Rafi Peretz was “continuing to conduct political tricks without people of his party.”

MK Rafi Peretz, 2019.

Religious Zionist Bayit Yehudi and far-right Otzma Yehudit to run together

The leaders of the two groups revealed the decision in a joint statement, inviting National Union leader and Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich to join the list.

Rafi Peretz and Itamar Ben Gvir.