Rafi Peretz
“This is the time to let new forces break out and lead,” says Peretz, Israel’s Jerusalem Affairs Minister.
Israeli officials quarantined after minister tests positive for COVID-19
Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister Rafi Peretz’s test result sends other ministers and the Israel Police Jerusalem district commander into self-isolation.
In a last-minute deal, Jewish Home leader Rafi Peretz breaks his pact with Itamar Ben-Gvir’s far-right party to join with the New Right and National Union ahead of Israel’s March 2 elections.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly threatens to fire Defense Minister Naftali Bennett if his New Right Party refuses to form a joint slate with far-right Otzma Yehudit.
Jewish Home officials call on party leader Rafi Peretz to cancel the agreement, claiming he acted without consulting them • Peretz: “These elections will decide the fate of the right-wing government and Religious Zionism. The call of the hour is unity.”
Israel’s Channel 13 news has launched an investigation after its report on supposed extremism at a pre-military school founded by Education Minister Rafi Peretz was proven to be false.
Citing a sense of “national responsibility,” URWP leader Rafi Peretz cedes top spot to Shaked • Moshe Feiglin announces that his Zehut Party will not join alliance, says “ask Shaked” why.
The split in the right-wing bloc prior to April’s elections contributed to the coalition failure, as Ayelet Shaked’s newly formed New Right Party failed to cross the electoral threshold, gifting several Knesset mandates to Israel’s left.
Former chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces’ Rafi Peretz insists that he “does not support” such therapy and claims that his remarks were misrepresented in a way that “deepens the rift in Israeli society.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Rafi Peretz’s remarks are “unacceptable and do not reflect the position of the government”; Meretz leader calls former IDF chief rabbi a “minister of darkness.”
Jewish Home leader Rafi Peretz agreed prior to the April elections to resign if appointed as a minister. Now that he’s education minister, not only is he not doing so, they say he’s not even answering the phone.
