Arye Deri

Outcome of state budget vote uncertain amid coalition crisis over haredi draft

By law, if the state budget is not approved in all three readings by the end of March, when the fiscal year closes, the Knesset will automatically dissolve, and elections will be called.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet seen at the Knesset plenum, June 11, 2025
 Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as lawmakers gather at the Knesset plenum to vote on a bill that would limit some Supreme Court power, in Jerusalem July 24, 2023.

Netanyahu convenes emergency meeting as haredi parties threaten to block state budget vote

Supreme Court justices preside over a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025

High Court to hear two cases blocking haredi education funds amid legal disputes

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri seen during a Shas party meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023.

Shas threatens to oppose 2026 state budget over haredi food-voucher exclusion


Arye Deri announces that he will not return to gov't

Deri said that he does not intend to promote the "Deri Law 2," which would restrict the High Court of Justice’s judicial intervention with appointments of ministers.

 Arye Deri speaks at a Shas Party faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023.

Budget approved for food stamps for the needy ahead of Rosh Hashanah

41,000 Holocaust survivors would also get the help they need from the food stamps.

 Leket Israel Distributing Hot Food to the Needy

Shas are seeking to deepen their grip over state religious institutions - opinion

The state-religious infrastructure has been used systematically to build a political power base.

 MK ARYE DERI leads a parliamentary faction meeting of his Shas party, in the Knesset, last month.

Will the High Court of Justice reject the incapacitation law? - poll

Most readers believed that the High Court will strike down the law while others thought they would only apply the law from the next Knesset session.

 High Court hears petitions on against the incapacitation law on August 3, 2023.

Israel's chief rabbi elections tainted by personal interests - opinion

Instead of passing laws that help the people and the nation, its members are focused on helping themselves, or in the case of the chief rabbinate, one of their brothers.

 MK ARYE DERI is in a bind, says the writer. On the one hand he has the opportunity to appoint his brother as chief rabbi, but that would put him at odds with the Yosef family, his political patrons.

Court leans toward applying Tiberias law next election, Yosef should withdraw

Beret downplayed the personal nature of the bill to prevent it from being canceled, saying that there is a difference between a law that applies personally and a personally motivated law.

 Head of the Shas party Aryeh Deri, leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2023.

Knesset abused power to help Netanyahu, A-G charges in High Court letter

The attorney general stated that the Knesset's authority was misused to legally protect Netanyahu.

 Newly appointed Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara seen during a welcome ceremony for her in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022.

Netanyahu’s opponents have not derailed his plans

After negotiations with the political opposition broke down, Israel’s far-right government is forging ahead with its judicial restructuring agenda, albeit more slowly

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen speaking at a memorial ceremony for Ze'ev Jabotinsky on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, on July 18, 2023.

WHO says aspartame can cause cancer, Israel issues no warnings

After WHO, officially, says that the widespread artificial sweetener aspartame may cause certain types of cancer, the Health Ministry reacts by saying there is currently no warning.

 Coke bottles.

Tiberias mayor law is personal, changes rules of election game -NGOs

The Anti-Corruption Movement (TLM) and the Israeli Movement filed a petition Wednesday morning alongside mayoral candidate Shani Illuz, who had also claimed that she had been offered bribes to quit.

 Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri seen during a Shas party meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023.