Aryeh Deri is an Israeli politician, and former leader of Israel

Israel

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's Shas Party

Shas

Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party in Israel, primarily representing Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Judaism.Shas was founded in 1984 by dissident members of the Ashkenazi dominated Agudat Israel, to represent the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi ...

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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

Eli Yishai

Eliyahu "Eli" Yishai is an Israeli politician and head of the Shas party. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Shas, and as both one of four Deputy Prime Ministers and Minister of Internal Affairs.- Political life :...

. Due to good behavior, Deri was released from Maasiyahu Prison

Maasiyahu Prison

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 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

Ynet

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to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

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