Aryeh Deri - Biography

Aryeh Deri (born February 17, 1959 in Meknes, Morocco) is an Israeli politician, and former leader of Israel's Shas Party.

Biography

After Deri was convicted of taking $155,000 in bribes while serving as Interior Minister and given a three-year jail sentence in 2000, he was replaced by Eli Yishai. Due to good behavior, Deri was released from Maasiyahu Prison in 2002 after serving 22 months.

On June 22, 2011, he announced that he was planning to return to politics.

In 2005, he was voted the 58th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

See also

• Shas
• List of Israeli public officials convicted of crimes or misdemeanors

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