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Thursday, January 7, 2016
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Thursday, January 7, 2016
Government to approve Deri for Interior Ministry appointment
The reappointment of Shas party leader Aryeh Deri as interior minister is set to be approved by the government Sunday.
Deri was set to return to the post this week, some 16 years after a corruption conviction ended his tenure and put him behind bars for almost two years.
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri in the Knesset on December 30, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Deri, 56, will replace the former Likud interior minister and vice prime minister Silvan Shalom, who resigned from the Knesset last month as pressure mounted over an increasing number of allegations of sexual harassment by women who had worked with him. (The allegations against Shalom were not substantiated and a police investigation was subsequently closed.)
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