Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz has distanced himself from his remarks during a cabinet meeting that compared the rate of intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews in the U.S. to a “second Holocaust.”

In a letter to Isaac Hertzog, the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the 63-year-old Peretz said he wished to convey regret about the comment to Jewish communities around the world, Axios reports.

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