Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Interior and Health Minister, and the leader of Shas Party, Aryeh Deri was not fit to serve, potentially threatening to bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government just three weeks into its term.
TEL AVIV — Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a senior minister was not fit to serve, raising the possibility thatArrowRight
Yaakov Margi, welfare and social affairs minister from Deri’s Shas party, said that without Deri “there will be no government,” in an interview with Kan Radio on Tuesday.The verdict is one of the first tests in an intensifying constitutional showdown between the government, which is rushing ahead with an overhaul of the judiciary system, and the Supreme Court, viewed as one of the last bastions of Israeli democracy.
Last year, Deri, then an MP, was convicted of tax fraud. He claimed that he had been targeted due to “racism,” referring to his Moroccan heritage, but confessed to the charges, signed a plea deal, and received a suspended jail sentence after vowing that he would not serve in government. In response to the ruling, Deri could step down and the government could use its judicial overhaul to reinstall him in his post, legal experts say.
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