They demand the resignation of the Israeli Minister of Education, who said on television that homosexuality could be cured.

Several opposition parties in Israel on Sunday called for the resignation of Education Minister Rafi Peretz for claiming on television that "homobaduality" can be cured, the international press reported. .

The request made to Peretz to leave the government has also been signed by organizations defending badual diversity and human rights in general.

Peretz said Saturday on television that "homobaduality" could be cured "and that he, as a teacher, knew in the past how to change people's badual inclination.

The head is a rabbi who heads the Focolar religious nationalist party, the Jewish Focolar. It was dissolved last month by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The head of government has distanced himself from Peretz's statement and the health ministry has warned that the so-called "remedies" of homobaduals preached by orthodox rabbis could cause serious psychological damage.

At 63, Peretz was an army general and is known for his ultra-conservative stances and his anti-Arab rhetoric.

A few days before his statement on the so-called cure for homobaduality, he said that marriages of Jews with non-Jews are "like a second holocaust".