Aryeh Deri

File: Hezbollah terror leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, as his supporters raise their hands, during the Shiite holy day of Ashoura, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

October 2, 2022, 1:45 pm

Daily Briefing Oct. 2: Nasrallah changes tune on maritime borders; security update

Editor David Horovitz on increasingly brazen legislators’ calls to overturn the judicial system; military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on how luck may soon run out in the West Bank

By TOI staff

Shas Head Aryeh Deri at a Kikar HaShabbat conference in the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

October 1, 2022, 11:36 pm

Shas chief: If judges bar me from being a minister, we’ll legislate to overrule them

Aryeh Deri, who has a suspended sentence for tax offenses, vows that a new Netanyahu coalition will also pass a law more widely enabling it to override High Court rulings

By Michael Horovitz

September 20, 2022, 6:17 pm

Shas leader Aryeh Deri says High Court rulings can be ignored

Twice-convicted ultra-Orthodox party leader laments court’s intervention in Knesset law as causing ‘confusion’ in the public

By TOI staff

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas at the Islamist party's campaign headquarters in the northern city of Tamra on March 23, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

August 11, 2022, 6:06 pm

Netanyahu reportedly offered Ra’am’s Abbas ‘exclusivity’ on Arab issues in coalition

Arab Israeli lawmaker said to have been approached by Shas chief Aryeh Deri on behalf of ex-PM last year in a last-ditch effort to prevent Bennett’s ‘change government’

By TOI staff

Disgraced rabbi Baruch Lanner, who was convicted of sexually assaulting students, in an undated photograph. (LinkedIn)

July 19, 2022, 3:07 pm

Interior Ministry: US rabbi convicted of sexual assault won’t receive citizenship

Baruch Lanner, who was convicted for abusing pupils, will be allowed to remain in Israel for the next year under a temporary residence visa

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives to deliver a statement announcing he won't run in the next elections, at the Knesset, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

June 29, 2022, 10:01 pm

Bennett announces he won’t run in next elections, hands Yamina leadership to Shaked

In emotional speech, outgoing prime minister lauds his government’s achievements, calls for national unity, says he will ‘remain a loyal soldier of this country’

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Internal Security Minister Amir Ohana (R) visit the site of an overnight fatal crush during a religious gathering at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, on April 30, 2021. (Ronen ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

June 26, 2022, 4:21 pm

Netanyahu summoned to testify before panel probing deadly Meron crush

Opposition head to be commission’s final witness; if found to bear any responsibility for crush that killed 45, he may get warning letter during upcoming expected election season

By TOI staff

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement at his Likud party's weekly Knesset faction meeting, May 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

May 30, 2022, 6:22 pm

Ideology aside: Right-wing opposition leaders vow to defeat all coalition bills

‘We won’t help them, they need to go,’ Netanyahu says; lacking support, coalition pulls bill to renew the application of criminal and some civil law to Israelis in West Bank

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Meretz parliament member Ilan Gilon at faction meeting in the Knesset, on May 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

May 1, 2022, 10:38 am

‘Honest man with huge heart’: Ex-Meretz MK, social activist Ilan Gilon dies at 65

Tributes pour in from across the political spectrum for former lawmaker who championed the rights of the most vulnerable in society

By TOI staff

Shas chairman Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, forward right, and Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman, left rear, at the plenum hall during the opening of the 22nd Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

April 7, 2022, 9:07 am

After suggesting political partnership, Deri insists Liberman can never be forgiven

But the ultra-Orthodox Shas leader doesn’t retract his idea of forming a new government with the secular Yisrael Beytenu chief

By TOI staff

Ultra-Orthodox Jews cross the road at the Bar-Ilan junction in Jerusalem, on October 19, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 10, 2022, 10:38 pm

Ultra-Orthodox leaders slam government’s economic relief plan

Opposition and coalition members criticize Bennett, Liberman plan, saying it neglects certain groups

By Tobias Siegal

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaking at a faction meeting of the Yesh Atid party in the Knesset, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

February 2, 2022, 11:24 pm

Lapid bill would permanently bar from politics anyone convicted of moral turpitude

Proposal seeks to amend current law, which imposes seven-year time out; coalition not united around legislation

By TOI staff

Shas party chairman Aryeh Deri seen after a being sentenced in a plea bargain for tax offense at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 2, 2022, 10:55 pm

Watchdog accuses Deri of breaking plea deal, urges state to intervene

Movement for Quality Government says Shas leader’s vow to return to Knesset, and appointment as parliamentary adviser, constitutes breach of agreement

By TOI staff

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri announces he will not be leaving public life, a day after he was sentenced for tax offenses, during a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 2, 2022, 4:43 pm

Unrepentant Deri vows to return to Knesset, a day after tax offense sentencing

Shas leader claims case went to court only because he’s Sephardic, says he’ll run in next election and ‘there is nothing to prevent it’; judge had said he’d be leaving public life

By TOI staff

Shas leader Aryeh Deri leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 1, 2022 after his conviction on tax offenses. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 1, 2022, 3:53 pm

Court sentences Deri in plea bargain conviction on tax offenses

No longer a lawmaker but still leader of Shas party, politician given 12-month suspended prison term along with NIS 180,000 fine

By TOI staff