Aryeh Deri

Yanki Deri checks his phone shortly after enlisting to the Israel Defense Forces near Tel Aviv, Israel on November 8, 2023. (Courtesy)

November 8, 2023, 2:03 pm

Yanki Deri, son of Haredi Shas party’s leader, enlists into the IDF at 40

Move is seen as part of a Haredi mobilization during the war, may also reflect the relative openness of the community’s Sephardic contingent

By Canaan Lidor

Shas chair Aryeh Deri arrives at the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

October 23, 2023, 9:44 pm

Shas’s Deri on IDF ground offensive: There weren’t plans, army needed time to prepare

As Defense Minister Gallant vows upcoming ‘combined attack from land, sea, and air,’ Deri — an observer on war cabinet — dismisses reports of disagreements among leadership

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Former Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi (right) tours the The Holy Family Hospital in Nazareth with Health Minister Moshe Arbel of the Shas party, July 4, 2023. (Social media screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

October 3, 2023, 4:04 pm

Ex-Meretz MK who voted against her own coalition takes job with current gov’t – reports

Calls made for police bribery probe of Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, who helped expedite the demise of Bennett-Lapid coalition, over reports she has taken a position in Interior Ministry

By Jeremy Sharon

Aryeh Deri standing in his sukkah holding an etrog he claimed cost him $5,000, October 1, 2023. (Twitter screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

October 1, 2023, 9:01 pm

Deri boasts of spending $5,000 on an etrog, then says he was joking

Shas leader brags he paid cash for the Sukkot fruit, which would be an illegally high cash purchase; office says he was defending the honor of small Moroccan etrog in humorous way

By ToI Staff

Ron Cobi, a former mayor of Tiberias and a candidate for the job, stands atop a hill overlooking his city in Israel on August 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

September 20, 2023, 10:42 am

Local elections turn placid Tiberias into unlikely front in Israel’s societal clash

Haredi and secularist extremism, as well as the alleged involvement of a former politician with a criminal record, are muddying the lakeside city’s political waters

By Canaan Lidor

September 14, 2023, 12:09 am

Deri: Coalition shouldn’t force overhaul through Knesset, ignoring intense opposition

Shas chief insists he doesn’t plan cabinet return; admits powerful protest movement has hindered judicial shakeup, was spawned by government’s hardline nature and rhetoric

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

A young Jewish boy eats at the Yad Ezra V'Shulamit center in Jerusalem, which serves hot lunch every day to more than 1,200 children under the poverty line. September 27, 2011. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

August 23, 2023, 6:15 pm

Shas food stamp program under fire for leaving Holocaust survivors in the lurch

Handouts approved by Justice Ministry appear to prioritize Haredi families, while survivors and single-parent households largely excluded

By ToI Staff

Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism party leader Yitzhak Goldknopf in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

August 13, 2023, 11:55 pm

Ultra-Orthodox parties said to refuse Netanyahu request to compromise on draft bill

Due to military pressure, PM reportedly trying to reach agreement for a less-drastic version of conscription law

By ToI Staff

File: Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked together with Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, former finance minister Moshe Kahlon, and other members of the Israeli Judicial Selection Committee at a meeting of the committee in the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, February 22, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90/File)

August 4, 2023, 6:47 am

PM aide: We’ll remake the Judicial Selection Committee, shelve rest of overhaul

Cabinet secretary: Coalition will seek opposition agreement on main bill in the judicial remake; if no deal, will politicize entire panel, with each bloc getting half the delegates

By ToI Staff

Erez Malul, a lawmaker for Shas, attends the coronation ceremony of Rabbi Yehuda Cohen at a synagogue in Jerusalem, July 13, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

August 2, 2023, 6:59 pm

New bill could create jobs for 1,070 rabbis, cost taxpayers tens of millions a year

Religious hardliners are among critics of the bill, which many see as part of a pact benefiting Shas and the Chief Rabbinate

By Canaan Lidor

Acting Tiberias mayor Boaz Yosef at a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, in petitions against the so-called "Tiberias law," on July 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 31, 2023, 12:09 am

High Court rules unanimously against mayoral election law that would benefit Deri ally

Judges say changes to cooling-off period for acting mayor must take effect only after next municipal poll; note legislation seemed ‘tailor-made’ to benefit Boaz Yosef

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

July 27, 2023, 7:55 am

AG slams ‘flawed’ law benefiting Deri ally in Tiberias mayoral race

Baharav-Miara says law, frozen since last week, ‘sets legal situation backward,’ unfairly benefits incumbents, and should not be implemented at upcoming vote on October 31

By ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend an event for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 21, 2023, 9:48 pm

Gallant said trying to delay judicial overhaul vote amid unprecedented pilots’ protest

Defense minister confirms ‘taking measures’ to achieve consensus; Deri also said working to stop ‘march into abyss’ as 1,142 IAF reservists warn they’ll refuse to show up for duty

By ToI Staff

Health and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri seen outside his home in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023 following the High Court of Justice ruling barring him from ministerial office. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

July 20, 2023, 7:25 pm

Court temporarily blocks law benefitting Deri ally in Tiberias municipal race

Justices issue injunction against legislation which removes requirement for caretaker mayors to sit out an election period before running for the office they were appointed to

By ToI Staff

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (center), Justice Uzi Vogelman (left) and Justice Isaac Amit (right) 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)

July 19, 2023, 8:05 pm

High Court sets September date to hear petition demanding Netanyahu ouster

September 12 hearing on alleged conflict of interest breach to be presided over by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, Justice Uzi Vogelman and Justice Isaac Amit

By ToI Staff