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Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Deri, supporter of a hostage-ceasefire deal, said boycotting latest top-level meetings on it
Aryeh Deri, the leader of Shas who was an observer in the now defunct war cabinet, has not been attending meetings for several weeks on a potential Israel-Hamas ceasefire-hostage deal, Channel 12 news reports.
Deri has attended no such meetings since the war cabinet was disbanded following the June 9 departure from the coalition of Benny Gantz and his National Unity party. Deri has also returned a telephone issued to him for purposes connected to those meetings and is not interacting with the relevant security officials either.
Deri’s office refuses to comment on the report.
The TV report speculates that Deri is fed up with being targeted — including by protesters outside his home — over the failure thus far to finalize a deal when he has long favored one.
The Times of Israel Community.