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


Grapevine: Prince Charles’s 3rd visit to Israel

The prince, who has now taken over many of his mother’s duties, was previously in Israel in September 2016 for the funeral of Shimon Peres, and before that in 1995 for the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin.

FROM LEFT: Tzipi Livni, Swiss Ambassador Jean-Daniel Ruch and Gideon Hamburger.

Bayit Yehudi and National Union in merger discussions

Former Bayit Yehudi leaders Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked tried in vain to make the party more socially liberal and less beholden to the religious-Zionist rabbis.

Bayit Yehudi and National Union agree to run on joint list

LGBTQ+ groups against chemical castration in hassidic communities

A young Haredi man outside the IDF enlistment office in Jerusalem

PISA tests: Israeli students consistently behind developed world

The PISA examinations showed Israeli students underperforming in reading, mathematics and science. They also reveal a growing gap between Hebrew-speaking and Arabic-speaking pupils.

Students from middle schools in Nazareth and Nof Hagalil study together and create joint projects

Firebrand Islamic cleric Raed Salah convicted of incitement to terrorism

Court sentenced Ariel terrorist with life in prison for murdering Rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal

Sheikh Raed Salah (C), head of the Islamic Movement in northern Israel.

Rethinking schools: Solutions

“We send kids to spend most of their days in a system that is currently… almost irrelevant to their learning needs,” said Dr. Cecilia Waismann.

Rabbi Rafi Peretz (right) takes over as interim education minister from Naftali Bennett (left) in May

Yamina solidly passes threshold, Otzma stumbles

While the results are subject to change, it is safe to say that the party is in the Knesset. It is a significant victory for Shaked and Bennet.

Yamina leader Ayelet Shaked speaks at a press conference.

Secular Jews are ‘evil’ video false; Shaked: Channel 13 needs to apologize

In a pre-army service school founded by Minister of Education Rafi Peretz students were seen being told they should not enlist or even come near secular Jewish people.

MK Rafi Peretz, 2019.

Netanyahu pledges to apply sovereignty to all West Bank settlements

PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashwari warned that if Netanyahu really carried out his promise, it would be “a war crime under the Rome statute and a grave violation of the UN charter.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Elkana municipality head Asaf Mintser for the beginning of the new school year along with first-grade students.

Rafi Peretz: Ben-Gurion would have liked me as education minister

"Channel 13 join the campaign started by the fake news group from the Democratic Union, they picked out parts of my lessons with tweezers and they use it against us."

MK Rafi Peretz at a ceremony at the education ministry