Miriam Peretz: Son will quit Knesset if Yashar goes with Arab party

Yashar lawmaker Elyasaf Peretz will leave the Knesset if his party forms a coalition with an Arab party, his mother, Miriam Peretz, told Kol Barama radio on Thursday."It will not happen that an Arab party decides whether to go to war," Miriam Peretz told the Haredi station.She said heavy pressure was being put on the two of them to defect from Gadi Eisenkot's party.Peretz's comments echo a pledge her son made in an Israel Hayom interview before the Oct. 27 election. "I, Elyasaf Peretz, say: We don't sit with non-Zionist parties," he declared in August.The lawmaker said at the time that Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas is not a Zionist and "couldn't even condemn Hamas.""The world can turn over a hundred times, I won't let it happen," Peretz vowed.Israel Prize laureate Miriam Peretz, who ran for president of Israel in 2021, lost two of her sons, Uriel and Eliraz, while…

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