Netanyahu said that he was “compelled, with a heavy heart” to comply with Wednesday’s court ruling — which cited Deri’s multiple convictions and recent apparent deception of a lower court — and terminate Deri’s dual appointment as interior and health minister.Netanyahu fires Deri 'with a heavy heart' after High...
**Gideon/GPO) (Plurk Paste) the High Court issued its bombshell ruling that the decision to appoint the Shas leader as interior and health minister was “unreasonable in the extreme” in light of Deri’s criminal convictions, most recently in January 2022.
Deri struck a plea bargain at that time with the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, which let him quitKnesset before his sentencing and thus avoid a hearing on whether his tax fraud conviction carried moral turpitude — a designation that would have barred him from holding public office for seven years.The court believed that Deri was retiring from public life
Deri struck a plea bargain quitKnesset before sentencing&thus avoid a hearing on whether his tax fraud conviction carried moral turpitude — a designation that would have barred him from holding public office for seven years.The court at the time believed that Deri was retiring from public life. However, he continued to lead Shas from outside the Knesset
the High Court issued its bombshell ruling that the decision to appoint the Shas leader as interior and health minister was “unreasonable in the extreme” in light of Deri’s criminal convictions, most recently in January 2022.