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January 25, 2023

One Politician’s 30 Years of Legal Troubles Can Explain the Controversy over the Israeli Judiciary

Aryeh Deri in the crosshairs.

Last week, Israel’s supreme court ruled that Aryeh Deri—the head of the Shas party and the recently inaugurated minister of health, minister of the interior, and vice-prime minister—could not maintain his cabinet posts. The court argued that Deri had promised to withdraw from political life as a condition of a 2022 plea bargain in which he confessed to tax fraud, and could not renege on his commitment. Despite Deri’s insistence that he had made no such promise, Benjamin Netanyahu led his cabinet in voting for Deri’s dismissal, which went into effect yesterday.

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January 25, 2023

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One Politician’s 30 Years of Legal Troubles Can Explain the Controversy over the Israeli Judiciary | Tikvah Ideas