The Israeli court does not allow one of the ministers to continue working / Article

This is the first blow to the Netanyahu government, which started work just less than a month ago.

Arye Deri, the leader of the ultra-orthodox Jewish party “Shas”, who was already convicted in the early 2000s for taking bribes while he was Israel’s interior minister, pleaded guilty to tax evasion last year.

For this, he was fined around 50,000 euros and lost his seat as a member of parliament.

The opinion of the Supreme Court states that Deri had created the impression that he would leave politics in order to reduce his sentence. But in the fall, he ran again in the Israeli parliamentary elections.

Last month, parliament confirmed that a person accused of crimes who has not been sentenced to prison can also be a minister.

Prime Minister Netanyahu also continues to struggle with allegations of bribery, fraud and abuse of power.

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