Miriam Peretz: If Yashar forms a government with an Arab party, my son will leave Knesset

Israel Prize laureate Miriam Peretz, the mother of Yashar MK Elisaf Peretz, said her son would leave the Knesset if his party joined a government with an Arab party.Peretz made the remarks in an interview with Lamshi and Gedlovitch on Kol Barama Radio, amid ongoing negotiations over the formation of the next government."If my son's party sits with an Arab party, he will leave the Knesset. Under no circumstances will an Arab party be allowed to decide whether to go into battle," Peretz declared.Asked whether her son would defect from the party, she replied, "Pressure is being exerted even these days. People are writing to me and to him and taking action in ways I will not detail. One day, these things will come to light."Just two days earlier, at her son's swearing-in ceremony at the Knesset, Peretz had struck a different tone, emphasizing the importance of unity and working on behalf of all Israeli citizens."I hope he will bring hope, a different kind of discourse to this house. This is the house of this entire people, and it should be a place where there is discourse of light, of hope, of faith, of peace, of love, of unity, and of action on behalf of all Israeli citizens," she said.Representing Mount Herzel's spirit of unityPeretz, who attended the ceremony after…