Following his remarks in which he called demonstrators "terrorists" - following his exposure to pictures of a mother's car windshield smashed during demonstrations - and sparked a viral storm with his statements, Kobi Peretz published a clarifying post on his online pages on Wednesday in which he asked to share with his hundreds of thousands of followers the emotional turbulence he and his family have been experiencing in recent days and called on his friends to refrain from expressing their opinions.
Kobe's fall broke out. Photo: Uncredited (archive)
"During all the riots, I ran away from the news and went to pray with the Rashbi. On the way, a video popped up on my feed in which a woman and her three children broke the windshield, and the pictures of the children screaming 'Mom, don't take you' triggered me," Peretz began the post. "I don't wish on anyone, but I left a wife and three children alone for a long time and I heard from the children, 'Daddy, they won't take you away from us and we'll miss you,'" Peretz reminded followers of the most difficult period of his life when he served a prison sentence for tax evasion.
"I watched the video over and over again and saw before my eyes my trauma in the image of that father, his helplessness when he saw the video and I knew what he was going through, the crying of the children who don't leave you when you have to go," he wrote, before admitting as a blow: "I made a mistake and in a storm of emotions I wrote a very harsh and in retrospect unfortunate response against those people who broke this mother's windshield. And I emphasize, to those specific people only," he wrote, "but they immediately detected this reaction and tried to make me now the scapegoat for all the reform and protest," Peretz asked to protest.
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Peretz continued to talk about the upheaval he and his family have been experiencing in recent days, pointing a direct finger at journalist Raviv Drucker, who called for a boycott of him. "Since the broadcast, my wife Inbal has only been crying," he shared. "All night long I chastise myself, what should I have written and why I didn't keep silent like others and curse my PTSD from that place, and again fears that my livelihood won't be harmed and they won't think, God forbid, that I'm against someone, and certainly because of politics and black films," he continued, recounting how his soul has not found rest since he wrote the response. "How specifically did I fall and more because of the reasonableness of her name for me and her," he wrote, sharing that despite the call for a boycott, all tickets for his show were sold.
Kobi Peretz, Photo: Coco
"So dear people of Israel, I have no words," he admitted. "I went through such a significant change in my life that I didn't deserve to fall again and I am grateful and moved by the support you are giving me and that you understood that they tried to turn me around," he thanked his fans for their support. "I'm everyone's singer, Ashkenazim, Mizrahi, religious, secular, and the last ones that interest me are the politicians," he clarified, and finally issued a firm call to his friends in the industry: "To all my artist friends - I phrased poorly in the heat of the moment and I have responsibility, but my advice to you, it's better not to express a political opinion," he concluded.
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