Aryeh Deri

Week after his appointment, acting health minister hasn’t shown up for work – report

Yoav Ben-Tzur, a temporary appointment after Shas head Aryeh Deri was fired on High Court orders, hasn’t even been briefed by ministry officials

Shas leader Aryeh Deri outside his home in Jerusalem on January 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In first media appearances since firing, Deri pledges to return to government office

By TOI staff

January 31, 2023, 3:25 pm

Week after his appointment, acting health minister hasn’t shown up for work – report

Yoav Ben-Tzur, a temporary appointment after Shas head Aryeh Deri was fired on High Court orders, hasn’t even been briefed by ministry officials

By Nathan Jeffay

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Shas faction meeting in Knesset, January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 30, 2023, 5:57 pm

Bill said aiming to restore Deri as minister by foiling High Court power to nix him

Coalition reportedly working on Basic Law change that would, in the name of upholding democracy and voters’ will, deny courts the power to disqualify a ministerial appointment

By TOI staff

January 27, 2023, 12:12 am

In first media appearances since firing, Deri pledges to return to government office

Shas head claims he wasn’t paying attention during hearing when judge said he’d agreed to exit public service, says court should have nixed plea deal if it thought he was insincere

By TOI staff

Shas leader Aryeh Deri during a Shas party meeting at the Knesset on January 23, 2023 (Courtesy Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 25, 2023, 1:36 pm

Daily Briefing Jan. 25: ‘He said, she said’ in Shas leader’s legal brouhaha

Legal affairs correspondent Jeremy Sharon on the Deri ruling and illegal settlements, Diaspora and religion writer Judah Ari Gross on left-wing religious Israelis and ulpan

By TOI staff

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri at a Shas faction meeting in Knesset, January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 24, 2023, 6:27 pm

Deri v. High Court: What did he actually pledge in his 2022 plea bargain?

The Shas leader was banned from holding ministerial office, partly for giving a judge the ‘false impression’ he was retiring from politics. He contends he said no such thing

By Jeremy Sharon

Aryeh Deri speaks during a Shas party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 24, 2023, 12:28 pm

Hinting at plans to return, Deri temporarily fills his vacated ministerial posts

Shas’s Michael Malkieli named acting interior minister, Yoav Ben-Tzur acting health minister, as Deri’s dismissal takes effect; positions must be permanently filled within 3 months

By TOI staff

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks in support of Aryeh Deri during a Shas party meeting, at the Knesset on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 24, 2023, 9:10 am

Levin said unfazed by protests against judicial overhaul, unwilling to compromise

Report says High Court’s Deri ruling made coalition more determined; Smotrich said pushing to hasten process as questions grow on economic impact; Herzog announces space for dialog

By TOI staff

File: Then prime minister Yair Lapid and President Isaac Herzog (left) at a memorial service marking 27 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

January 23, 2023, 5:13 pm

Lapid: President considering my idea to set up panel for ‘balanced’ judicial reform

Herzog confirms interaction ‘with all relevant actors’ in bid to avert ‘historic constitutional crisis’ over coalition’s overhaul plan; Gantz says mass protests having an impact

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Shas party faction meeting at the Knesset, with Shas leader Aryeh Deri seated at his side, on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 23, 2023, 5:10 pm

Coalition heads join Shas meeting in support of Deri; PM vows to ‘fix’ dismissal

Netanyahu once again lashes High Court ruling against fired minister, defends judicial shake-up: ‘We haven’t come to end democracy, we’ve come to save democracy’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

January 22, 2023, 11:13 pm

Report: PM told US national security adviser judicial overhaul will be softened

Israeli TV says Netanyahu was warned sweeping reforms could jeopardize US support, responded that he seeks broad consensus, changes ‘will not pass as currently presented’

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 22, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

January 22, 2023, 5:16 pm

Cabinet expands state-subsidized health benefits, okays ministry chiefs

Government okays subsidized eyeglasses for children, advanced cancer treatments, diabetes meds; Netanyahu says international bond sale shows ‘the world actually believes in Israel’

By Tobias Siegal

Aryeh Deri arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 22, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

January 22, 2023, 4:15 pm

Deri claims he and Netanyahu always planned to obey court, vows to keep leading Shas

Lapid pans government ‘circus’ over party leader’s dismissal and Religious Zionism’s boycott of cabinet meeting; Gantz laments that carrying out ruling became ‘not so clear-cut’

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) reads a letter to Shas chair Aryeh Deri, informing Deri that he must remove him from ministerial office, at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, January 22, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

January 22, 2023, 2:42 pm

Netanyahu fires Deri ‘with a heavy heart’ after High Court nixes convicted minister

PM vows to find ‘legal way’ to reinstate ally in wake of ‘unfortunate’ decision that ‘ignores will of the people’; Deri to retain ‘Vice PM’ title, expects cabinet meeting invites

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Health and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri seen outside his home in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

January 22, 2023, 1:02 pm

Daily Briefing Jan. 22: How a 1993 corruption case sparked today’s judicial overhaul

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on Shas head Aryeh Deri’s role; Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn on last night’s Tel Aviv protest, rumors about an attorney general showdown

By TOI staff

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and other justices at a hearing of the High Court of Justice on petitions against the appointment of Shas party leader Aryeh Deri as a minister due to his recent conviction for tax offenses, January 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 22, 2023, 10:54 am

WSJ calls for checks on High Court, says Deri ruling flies in face of voters

Daily’s editors argue Israel’s top court is less restrained than American counterpart, reforms are not ‘antidemocratic,’ and voters approved Shas leader despite criminal past

By TOI staff