Rafi Peretz

Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 4, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli education minister walks back support for conversion ‘therapy’ for gays

Rafi Peretz had apologized earlier for saying that intermarriage was “like a second Holocaust.”

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 17, 2019 5:29 am

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Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel arrives ahead of a European Council Meeting on October 19, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Luxembourg PM cancels meeting with Israeli ambassador to protest education minister’s gay conversion remark

Another Israeli minister, who is gay, accused Bettel of hypocrisy in light of his smiley meeting with Iran’s foreign minister in 2014.

July 16, 2019 11:23 am

Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz slammed for skipping handshake with teenage girl

More fuel for critics who call the right-wing politician and rabbi an extremist.

July 16, 2019 8:23 am

Israel’s new education minister under fire for supporting gay conversion therapy

By Marcy Oster July 14, 2019 9:49 am

Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 4, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli education minister walks back support for conversion ‘therapy’ for gays

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 17, 2019 5:29 am

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel arrives ahead of a European Council Meeting on October 19, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Luxembourg PM cancels meeting with Israeli ambassador to protest education minister’s gay conversion remark

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 16, 2019 11:23 am

Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz slammed for skipping handshake with teenage girl

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 16, 2019 8:23 am

Israel’s new education minister under fire for supporting gay conversion therapy

By Marcy Oster July 14, 2019 9:49 am

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