JERUSALEM (JTA) — Several Israeli municipalities instructed local schools to discuss equal rights and tolerance after the country’s education minister suggested homosexuality is abnormal and unnatural ...

(JTA) — Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz, under fire for his support of “conversion therapy” for gays and for calling assimilation among U.S. Jews a “second Holocaust,” was slammed for not ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s new education minister’s remarks in favor of “conversion therapy,” a controversial technique that seeks to turn gays into heterosexuals, came under widespread criticism and ...

Education Minister Rafi Peretz (United Right) expressed support Tuesday morning for the formation of a broad alliance of right-wing parties ahead of the September 17th election – but insists he must ...

The Knesset Committee on Tuesday approved Minister Rafi Peretz’s request to split from the Yamina faction. His request was approved by a majority of 10 in favor, 2 against and one abstention. The ...