Aryeh Deri

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

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett delivers a statement at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on December 25, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90, file)

February 1, 2022, 2:01 pm

Daily Briefing Feb. 1 – Who scuttled the Western Wall deal; a price hike backlash

US reporter Jacob Magid discusses what really happened with the ‘Kotel compromise’ and political correspondent Tal Schneider looks at a Knesset vote on yeshiva student exemptions

By TOI staff

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court after pleading guilty on charges of tax offenses as part of a negotiated plea bargain, on January 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 31, 2022, 1:39 am

Deri slammed for accusing gov’t of ‘starving children’ while at 5-star Swiss resort

Week after resigning from Knesset in plea deal, leader of ultra-Orthodox Shas party releases video saying ministers driving up cost of living

By TOI staff

January 27, 2022, 6:54 pm

Despite resigning as MK in plea deal, Deri to continue leading Shas Knesset activity

After conviction for tax offenses, Shas leader will still run party’s weekly faction meetings, steer its intricate political life. He just won’t be able to vote, says party source

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Former MK Aryeh Deri, leader of the Shas party, arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court on January 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 25, 2022, 2:18 pm

No longer an MK, Deri convicted of tax offenses in plea bargain

Shas party leader already resigned as part of agreement to avoid moral turpitude charge; prosecutors seek NIS 180,000 fine and 12-month suspended sentence

By TOI staff

Shas party leader MK Aryeh Deri, right, hands his letter of resignation to Knesset Speaker MK Mickey Levy, January 23, 2020. (Knesset spokesperson)

January 23, 2022, 12:26 pm

Deri resigns from the Knesset in line with tax offense plea deal

Because the Shas party leader will not be an MK at time of pending verdict, he’ll dodge a ‘moral turpitude’ conviction, enabling possible return to politics

By TOI staff

Shas MK Aryeh Deri at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 22, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 17, 2022, 1:13 pm

Supreme Court rejects petition calling on it to insist on harsher plea deal for Deri

Justices dismiss demand that the state include clause in plea bargain that would bar the former minister and ex-con from returning to public office for seven years

By Amy Spiro

December 26, 2021, 6:18 pm

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri indicted for tax offenses after plea deal

Agreement expected to see opposition lawmaker, who has previously been jailed for bribery, resign from Knesset but possibly return as soon as next elections

By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff