Arje Deri

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Arje Deri (2018)

Arje Machluf Deri ( Hebrew אריה מכלוף דרעי; Born February 17, 1959 in Meknes , Morocco ) is an Israeli politician, minister and chairman of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party. He was Minister of the Interior from 1988 to 1993 . When Yitzchak Rabin took over the Ministry of the Interior from May 11 to June 7, 1993, Deri remained in the government as a minister without portfolio and then returned to his old post, which he held until he left the 25th government on May 14. September 1993 held.

In the 34th Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Deri was Minister of Economic Affairs from May to November 2015; since May 2015 he is (also) Minister for the Development of the Negev and Galilee and since January 2016 Minister of the Interior again.

He is married and has nine children.

First political career

Deri's family immigrated to Israel in 1968, where he visited an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva in Hadera and later in Jerusalem , which he left when he turned to politics in the 1980s. In 1983 he was one of the co-founders of the Schas party, which, with the support of the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadja Josef, changed from an electoral list in Jerusalem to a nationwide, ultra-Orthodox Sephardic party and won four seats in the elections to the 11th Knesset in 1984 won. In the 21st Israeli government founded by Shimon Peres , which lasted from September 13, 1984 to October 20, 1986, Deri, who was not a member of the Knesset at the time, was given a leading position in the Ministry of the Interior, which he also held in the subsequent 22nd government under Yitzhak Shamir . The Shas won six seats in the 12th Knesset. Shamir, who was responsible for the formation of the 22nd government (from December 23, 1988 to June 11, 1990) and 23rd government (from June 11, 1990 to July 13, 1992), kept Deri as Minister of the Interior. From the 13th Knesset, Deri was himself a member of parliament and remained Minister of the Interior in the subsequent governments under Rabin until September 1993.

His political positions included advocating peace with the Palestinians and advocating partial autonomy, which Deri postulated as the sine qua non of his participation in government. In the area of ​​social legislation, however, he took positions that made secular Israelis fear the conversion of the country into a theocracy. The resignation of the then Minister of Education, Shulamit Aloni , who came under criticism from the Orthodox parties for attempting to secularize the Israeli school curriculum, can be traced back to Deri's efforts.

Second political career

After serving a prison term of several years (Deri was sentenced to four years in prison on September 3, 2000 for corruption, fraud and abuse of office, of which he served a total of 22 months in Maasiyahu Prison until July 15, 2002) and the subsequent seven-year imprisonment for taking over public office, Deri returned to politics in 2009 and has been a member of the Knesset for the Shas since February 5, 2013. In May 2015 Deri became Minister of Economic Affairs (he was until November 2015) and also Minister for the Development of the Negev and Galilee. He has also been Minister of the Interior since January 2016.

When newspapers reported that Jair Netanyahu (son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ) was in a relationship with a non-Jewish Norwegian, he commented: "Woe to us if that is true."

After almost three years of investigation in cooperation with the tax authorities, the police recommended that the public prosecutor should bring charges of fraud and breach of trust. The investigation revealed sufficient evidence of these offenses in Deri's contacts with a businessman while he was in office as minister, as well as substantial tax offenses, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and false statements about his income and assets to the Knesset spokesman and the audit office.

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  1. ↑ a b c d biographical entry on Deri, Aryeh in: Lawrence Joffe: Keesing's Guide to the Mid-East Peace Process. Part Four A: Biographies of Principal Participants. Catermill, London 1996. Quoted in: Arabic-Islamic Biographical Archive (AIBA), II 71, pp. 155-156
  2. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/kommentare/portraet-rabbiner-arie-deri-orthodoxer-politiker-israel-ich-komme-zurueck-endgueltig/1557504.html
  3. ↑ http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=41
  4. ^ Israel: wafer-thin majority for new right-religious coalition . Euronews.com of May 15, 2015
  5. ↑ http://www.taz.de/Streit-ueber-Jair-Netanjahus-Freundin/!131957/
  6. ↑ Thorsten Schmitz: Netanyahus Junior is explosively in love. In: sueddeutsche.de . January 29, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Tamara Zieve: Aryeh Deri again facing jail time as police recommend fraud charges. In: Jerusalem Post of November 20, 2018 (English)
  8. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/kilelat-deri/oclc/793323604 Entry at Worldcat
personal data
SURNAME Deri, Arje
ALTERNATIVE NAMES אריה דרעי (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician, minister and Knesset MP
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Meknes , Morocco