Thousands of high school students held a demonstration Wednesday protesting remarks last week by Education Minister Rafi Peretz in which he appeared to call same-sex marriage unnatural.
The students and teachers rallied in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square under the slogan "Demanding Change."
The demonstration was organized by student councils from several high schools, with buses bringing protesters to the event, Hebrew media reported.
"Ministers and politicians who are supposed to be leading the country, who are supposed to represent all of the various communities and the different sexual tendencies, they can’t come along and say what is normal, they can’t come and trample entire communities, people with feelings and thoughts," she said.
However, Koren made it clear that the demonstrators were not demanding that Peretz resign.
"We are not against Rafi Peretz, we are not against the ideas of anyone," she said, but rather against the way political leaders have expressed themselves.
When the education minister defines "normal" as being heterosexual, it contradicts students’ education about tolerance and being considerate of others, Koren explained.
