Security guards grab and throw out an anti-government protester who interrupted Shas party leader Aryeh Deri's speech during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Several anti-government protesters disrupt the Shas party’s faction meeting, shouting during party leader Aryeh Deri’s remarks.
“Shame on you! More than half the nation says: We won’t let you destroy democracy,” says one of them before being grabbed and thrown out of the room by security staff.
After expressing his condolences to victims of Friday’s Palestinian terror attack, Deri moves on to his disqualification as a minister by the High Court last month.
Deri cites comments aired yesterday made by former attorney general Avichai Mandelblit, who conceded that legal proceedings against Deri were too drawn out, that the justice system “didn’t excel” in that case, and that the plea bargain was “proper” and didn’t include a promise by Deri to quit politics, as the judges at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court and the High Court had understood.
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The comments “confirm what I said the whole time — I didn’t get any lenient deal, maybe the opposite.”
It is at that point that the first heckler interrupts him.
After another sentence, a different protester shouts: “That’s nonsense,” and “we will fight for democracy until the end.”
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