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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed key ally Aryeh Deri from all ministerial posts on Sunday, complying with an Israeli High Court ruling that it was unreasonable to nominate the Shas celebration chief to positions in authorities.
The court docket had mentioned Deri’s appointment “cannot stand” as a consequence of his prison convictions and since he had mentioned in court docket final 12 months earlier than being sentenced over a tax fraud conviction that he would retire from public life.
Netanyahu instructed Deri he made the transfer “with a heavy heart, with great sorrow,” in keeping with a press release from the Prime Minister’s workplace.
Deri’s dismissal got here the day after greater than 100,000 individuals protested in central Tel Aviv towards Netanyahu’s authorities and its deliberate judicial reforms, in keeping with police estimates in Israeli media. Thousands extra individuals protested in Jerusalem and different…
2023-01-22 07:45:54 Aryeh Deri: Netanyahu dismisses key ally after High Court order
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