By Amir Tal and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Israel’s top court ruled 10-1 on Wednesday that Aryeh Deri, leader of the Shas party and a key ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, should not be allowed to serve as interior minister because of a February 2022 conviction for tax fraud.
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Key Netanyahu ally cannot serve as cabinet minister, Israel's top court rules, sparking potential government crisis
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Top Israeli legal official tells Netanyahu to fire key ally
By Amir Tal and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Israel’s top court ruled 10-1 on Wednesday that Aryeh Deri, leader of the Shas party and a key ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, should not be allowed to serve as interior minister because of a February 2022 conviction for tax fraud.
Israel's top court ruled Wednesday that a senior member of premier Benjamin Netanyahu's newly formed government cannot serve as minister due to a recent tax evasion conviction.The decision was slammed by Prime Minister Netanyahu's coalition, which vowed to push ahead with controversial measures that…
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must fire a key ally from the country’s new Cabinet, presenting the Israeli leader with a potential coalition crisis and deepening a rift over the power of the courts.
By Amir Tal and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Israel’s top court ruled 10-1 on Wednesday that Aryeh Deri, leader of the Shas party and a key ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, should not be allowed to serve as a cabinet minister because of a February 2022 conviction for tax fraud.
The Supreme Court ruled that ultra-Orthodox party leader Aryeh Deri, Netanyahu's ally in a power-sharing government, must go due to the recent conviction.
Israel’s top court ruled that Aryeh Deri, a longtime Netanyahu ally who leads the government’s third-largest party, cannot serve as a minister because of a conviction for tax offenses.
