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Shas behavioral democracy / rule-of-law record — the "Deri Law" (27 Dec 2022): at Shas's behest, the new coalition amended Basic Law: The Government to exclude suspended sentences from the bar on convicts serving as ministers, specifically so convicted Shas leader Aryeh Deri could be appointed minister — criticized as "personal legislation." Documented by JURIST (Univ. of Pittsburgh Law).
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Israel 2022-12-27 Tier 2 — primary or translation
Party: Shas
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This morning, 27th December, Israel’s new coalition passed a bill that will allow parliament member Aryeh Deri, leader of the “Shas” faction in the Knesset, to be nominated as minister despite his recent criminal convictions of tax offenses.
Now the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu has changed the relevant clause in the Basic Law to prohibit only those convicted to active incarceration from serving as minister, excluding a conviction of a suspended sentence from the law, thereby making it legal for Deri to be appointed as minister.
Foremostly, it is considered to be personal legislation, as it is clearly being legislated only to let Deri be appointed as minister. English translation
[Source is in English; this field holds editorial context, not a translation.] Behavioral conduct-axis record of Shas on democracy / rule-of-law (regime-stance). Under the December 2022 Likud–Shas coalition agreement, Shas was promised that its leader Aryeh Deri would serve as a minister. Israeli Basic Law: The Government barred a person sentenced to imprisonment — including a suspended sentence — from serving as minister for seven years; Deri had been convicted in February 2022 of tax offenses (a plea deal in which he pledged to leave public life) and had earlier served 22 months in prison (2000–2002) for bribery while interior minister. To install him anyway, the coalition amended the Basic Law so the bar applied only to actual incarceration — the "Deri Law," widely condemned (including by the Knesset's legal adviser) as personal legislation. Deri was appointed Interior and Health Minister; in January 2023 the High Court of Justice ruled the appointment "unreasonable in the extreme" and ordered his dismissal — a ruling that fed the coalition's broader 2023 confrontation with the judiciary. [Attribution: a Shas coalition demand legislated for the benefit of its own leader. Axes: democracy (behavioral), regime-stance.]
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(Shas, 2022) Shas. (2022). Shas behavioral democracy / rule-of-law record — the "Deri Law" (27 Dec 2022): at Shas's behest, the new coalition amended Basic Law: The Government to exclude suspended sentences from the bar on convicts serving as ministers, specifically so convicted Shas leader Aryeh Deri could be appointed minister — criticized as "personal legislation." Documented by JURIST (Univ. of Pittsburgh Law).. jurist.org. Retrieved June 22, 2026, from https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/12/israel-dispatch-controversial-coalition-bill-allows-party-leader-lately-convicted-of-tax-fraud-to-serve-as-government-minister/
Shas. 2022. "Shas behavioral democracy / rule-of-law record — the "Deri Law" (27 Dec 2022): at Shas's behest, the new coalition amended Basic Law: The Government to exclude suspended sentences from the bar on convicts serving as ministers, specifically so convicted Shas leader Aryeh Deri could be appointed minister — criticized as "personal legislation." Documented by JURIST (Univ. of Pittsburgh Law).." jurist.org. Accessed June 22, 2026. https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/12/israel-dispatch-controversial-coalition-bill-allows-party-leader-lately-convicted-of-tax-fraud-to-serve-as-government-minister/.
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