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


J'lem Mayor Moshe Lion attends Torah dedication against COVID-19 regulations

Also on Thursday night, events were shut down for Health Ministry regulation violations, including 15 weddings and a nightclub.

‘THE TORAH is a book that establishes the status of the common man.’

Parties start membership drives

Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister Rafi Peretz sent a letter to the party’s current members informing them of a “big membership drive of religious Zionists."

Bayit Yehudi leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz

Peretz entering government as minister of Jerusalem affairs and heritage

With Peretz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition will have 73 MKs.

MK Rafi Peretz, 2019.

Which students and teachers still need to stay home from school?

Children who have had recurrent hospitalizations due to complex illnesses will not be allowed to return to school without first

Anais, a student at the International Bilingual School (EIB), attends her online lessons in her bedroom in Paris as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread in France, March 20, 2020.

Education, Diaspora ministers decline to condemn Bible Contest remarks

Dr. Avshalom Kor said of one of the international contestants who had a rather sombre expression on their face “What does he have to smile about, he lives in exile.”

Dr. Avshalom Kor

Peretz: Religious schools to open, coronavirus regulations will be kept

The education minister said that “we will continue to do everything to benefit all segments of the population.”

Bayit Yehudi leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz

Education Ministry: School administrators to return to work next week

The only administrators that will be allowed to return, according to the statement, will be school principals, deputy principals, secretaries and janitors.

An empty school is seen after Israel shut schools as part of precautionary measures against coronavirus, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 15, 2020

Rafi Peretz requests to open daycares, schools return in online classrooms

Peretz said in a Facebook post that his request to re-open preschools and grade school up to third grade was rejected during the Saturday night ministerial meeting.

A child sits at the computer

Education Ministry: No decision yet made about school after Passover

Distance learning has proven itself. We have received excellent responses from teachers and students, if the situation persists, we will put in more agenda."

A GROUP of junior high school students are demanding the government fulfill its educational duty to them.

Auschwitz museum does not want visitors from countries affected by coronavirus

In a statement posted last week on its website, the museum said it is “monitoring this issue on an ongoing basis.

VISITORS WALK along the railway track at the main gate of the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp.

US, Germany, Mexico, 6 others seek to ban gay 'conversion therapy'

LGBT+ people - some children - have undergone abuses like lobotomies, castration and masturbatory reconditioning in the past, in a bid to change their sexual orientation or gender identity, ILGA said

Thousands protest throughout the country after Education Minister Rafi Peretz stated that he supports gay conversion therapy.