While the right-wing and far-right coalition, in place since the end of December, is the subject of massive protest in the streets, the Supreme Court considers that the number two in the government must resign.
By Samuel Forey
Correspondent in Jerusalem
LThe showdown quickly began. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that it was “unreasonable” for
Aryeh Deri sits in the government. The leader of the religious party Shas, a major figure in the country’s politics and heavyweight in the government, was convicted in 2022 in a fraud case. The Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Health and “peripheries” had undervalued the estimate of a property in Jerusalem in the context of a sale to his brother. He had negotiated with the court, claiming to distance himself from political life, and thus obtained a reduced sentence and could not in theory hold an elective mandate for seven years.
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