Several Israeli school districts held impromptu tolerance classes on Sunday afte...
FILE PHOTO: Protesters take part in a LGBT community members protest against discriminatory surrogate bill in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 22, 2018. REUTERS/Corinna Kern/File Photo
The furor over the remarks by Education Minister Rafael Peretz - who last year spoke favorably 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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