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Aryeh Deri, Jerusalem, December 30, 2014 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2015, 5:15 am
Petition urges PM to nix Deri over criminal past
Over 11,000 signatories protest Shas leader returning to ministerial post due to his bribery conviction during previous stint
By TOI staff
Shas MK Ariel Atias (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 19, 2014, 9:42 pm
Shas MK Ariel Atias quits Knesset
Former minister set to be replaced by educator Rabbi Yoav Ben-Tzur; MK Deri says move is just ‘a break’
By TOI staff
A woman reads the free daily Israel Hayom. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 20, 2014, 3:06 am
New bill seeks to limit free newspapers
Legislation targets Israel Hayom and is rumored to be the initiative of Yedioth Ahronoth’s owner
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on December 29, 2013. (photo credit: Ohad Zweigenberg/POOL/Flash90)
February 19, 2014, 2:26 pm
PM backs criminal penalties for Haredi draft-dodgers
Shaked Committee meets Wednesday to vote on controversial proposal; Shas accuses Jewish Home of lying
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pays his respects to the family of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Jerusalem, October 08, 2013 (photo credit: Gil Yohanan/Flash90)
October 8, 2013, 6:23 pm
Cancel yeshiva student draft, Yosef’s sons demand of PM
Rabbi’s children confront Netanyahu during his condolence visit, say father’s ‘dying wish’ was that draft be stopped; Jerusalem cleans up after largest funeral in Israel’s history
By Adiv Sterman and Gavriel Fiske
Shas MKs Eli Yishai (left) and Aryeh Deri speak during a Shas party meeting, February 18, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 7, 2013, 11:54 pm
Discordant Shas faces possible schism after Yosef’s death
The peerless spiritual leader held together a fractured party; the feuding politicians he left behind may be unable to do the same
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Relatives of Palestinians prisoners take part in a protest calling for their release, in Ramallah in April (Photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
August 12, 2013, 3:19 pm
PA minister: Releases will boost chances for peace
Victims’ families petition court to delay letting prisoners go
By Stuart Winer and Ricky Ben-David
Rabbi David Stav, cofounder and chairman of the Tzohar rabbinical organization. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
June 17, 2013, 9:14 am
Rabbinate candidate Stav attacked at wedding
Opponents surround and harass moderate rabbi in wake of scathing indictment by Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef
By Asher Zeiger
Eli Yishai (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
May 6, 2013, 10:10 am
Former Shas head considering run for Jerusalem mayor
Eli Yishai, ousted last week as head of Shas in favor of Aryeh Deri, said to be mulling new political course
By Gavriel Fiske
From left: Eli Yishai, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Aryeh Deri, the leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party attend a circumcision in January, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 5, 2013, 2:49 am
I promised Deri he’d return to lead party, Shas rabbi says
Ovadia Yosef says sidelined chairman Eli Yishai only had the job as a temporary ‘deposit’
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of Israeli shekels. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)
May 3, 2013, 3:25 pm
Deficit and defeat
Eli Yishai gets booted from the Shas leadership; the papers analyze the Liberman trial
By Ilan Ben Zion
Shas founder Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (center) flanked on the left by MK Eli Yishai and on the right by MKs Aryeh Deri and Ariel Atias, at the rabbi's house in Jerusalem, October 2012. (photo credit: Shas/Flash90)
May 2, 2013, 7:40 pm
Shas rabbi gives Deri nod to head party solo
Former political leader to become solitary chief once more as tripartite leadership scheme is abandoned
By Yifa Yaakov
Ariel Atias, former minister of Housing and Construction, lays out the plans for the new ultra-Orthodox city of Harish in northern Israel in August 2012. (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)
April 21, 2013, 9:26 pm
Comptroller looking into undue influence by ex-Shas minister
Ariel Atias allegedly used power in Housing Ministry to give preferential treatment to ultra-Orthodox
By Aaron Kalman
A beach in Bodrum, Turkey. (photo credit: CC BY-SA yilmaz ovunc, Flickr)
April 11, 2013, 7:03 pm
Despite warming ties, Israelis cold to Turkey trips
Contrary to projections, poll shows most Israelis uninterested in hitting Bodrum beaches this summer
By Ilan Ben Zion
Aryeh Deri in the Knesset (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 10, 2013, 11:42 pm
Deri lashes out at PM’s ‘bourgeois government’
Shas leader accuses Netanyahu of ostracizing the ultra-Orthodox community and harming the poor
By Adiv Sterman
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