Ahlama and Amir Peretz
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Amir Peretz's wife running for mayor of Sderot
Ahlama Peretz tells her family she's decided to 'live out her dream', run for mayor of Qassam-battered town in November elections. 'I can change the city,' she says
The wife of former defense minister and Labor chairman Amir Peretz is entering politics, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.
After much deliberation, Ahlama Peretz told her husband and four children Wednesday that she has decided to "live out her dream" and run for mayor of Sderot in the upcoming November elections.
Amir Peretz began his political career when he was elected mayor of the Qassam-battered town in 1984.
His wife said after the announcement that she has the ability to change Sderot and "fight for every child".
In an interview that will be published Yedioth Ahronoth's weekend edition, Ahlama Peretz spoke of what she referred to as the "injustice" that was done to her husband and her plans for a "new relationship with our neighbors in the Gaza Strip".
