An Israeli politician of Moroccan origins elected as head of a far-right party

Israel's «Jewish Home» party elected, Sunday, former Education Minister Rabbi Yitzhak Levy, who has Moroccan origins, as the new Chairman of the far-right party, reports Israel National News.

«Jewish Home» said it overcame all the difficulties and crises it faced, saying it was confident in the new election. «We found an excellent candidate after many days of examining and vetting the various candidates; we heard and we chose», the party said in a press release.

Rafi Peretz was born in 1956 to a family of Moroccan Jews. He grew up in the Ma'abara migrant camp before becoming a pilot and chief military rabbi until 2016.

The new leader of the extremist party has already issued provocative statements against Muslims, saying that «there is no religious significance in Islam» for Muslims to pray in Al Aqsa Mosque, a holy location in Islam.

He had already said that Jerusalem «was not at all» mentioned in the Qur'an, accusing «90% of Arabs of [not really knowing] what is written in their Qur'an».

The «Jewish Home» was founded in 2008 and has been ranked 20th in the Knesset since 2015, with eight MPs out of a total of 120 members of Israel's parliament.