JERUSALEM, Jan 12 — Several Israeli school districts held impromptu tolerance classes today after the country’s education minister, an Orthodox rabbi, angered LGBT campaigners by implying homosexuality was unnatural. The furore over the remarks by Education Minister Rafael Peretz - who last...
Several Israeli municipalities said they would open tolerance classes. — Reuters pic
The furore over the remarks by Education Minister Rafael Peretz - who last year spoke favourably about gay “conversion therapy”, a widely discredited method - reached into the Israeli cabinet, one of whose members is openly homosexual. Several Israeli municipalities said they would open the new school week with tolerance classes in response.
Peretz, who heads the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party, assumed the education portfolio within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative coalition government in June.
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