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Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett hold a news conference for the New Right party in Tel Aviv, March 17, 2019. (Flash90)
July 22, 2019, 9:18 am
Ayelet Shaked to head New Right party
Israel’s former justice minister Ayelet Shaked is head of the New Right party, replacing Naftali Bennett, the former education minister.
Rafi Peretz, Israel’s Education Minister and chairman of the Jewish Home Party, speaks at a party meeting on June 19, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)
July 18, 2019, 12:00 am
Australian Jewish leaders slam Israeli minister
AUSTRALIAN Jewish leaders have condemned comments by Israel's new Education Minister Rafi Peretz appearing to endorse gay conversion therapy.
By Peter Kohn
Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, July 4, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 17, 2019, 9:31 am
Peretz says calling intermarriage a second Holocaust was ‘not appropriate’
Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz walked back his recent statement that intermarriage is “like a second Holocaust,” writing that the phrase was “probably not an appropriate term to use.”
Rafi Peretz, Israel’s Education Minister and chairman of the Jewish Home Party, speaks at a party meeting on June 19, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)
July 15, 2019, 9:59 am
Israel’s new education minister under fire for supporting gay conversion therapy
Israel’s new education minister Rafi Peretz said in a television interview that he supports gay conversion therapy and that he has used the practice to help homosexual youth.
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