Parashat Deri

Between Disgrace and Disgrace: The Deri Seder is a pathetic attempt to save the lost honor of the State Attorney's Office

The preoccupation with legal disgrace has been postponed, but the real disgrace is already here, and it is not only on Deri's forehead, but on those who allowed him to return to politics.

Another person who can not escape the disgrace is Mandelblit himself, who failed to manage this case - and once again damaged public confidence in the rule of law

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23/12/2021

Thursday, 23 December 2021, 15:37 Updated: 16:02

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In the video: Deri, Gafni and Litzman attack Bennett - evil, shake up heaven and earth (Photo stills: Yonatan Zindel / Flash 90, video photo: Knesset channel)

In carving out the way to the desired plea agreement between the parties, Shas chairman Aryeh Deri and the State Attorney's Office, at least temporarily, avoided dealing with the most controversial question between them - the question of disgrace.

The immediate solution is for Deri to retire ostensibly independently from the Knesset, and in any case the question of defamation will not arise at the time of his conviction, since the issue is discussed only when the convict engages, or seeks to engage, in an official public office.

He will be able to run for the next Knesset in any case, since the law prohibits running only on those who have served time in prison during the seven years prior to the election.

On the other hand, since the State Attorney's Office did not give up the stigma, the issue is expected to come up again when Deri wants to be appointed a minister in some government in the future.

When that happens, the issue will be brought to the attention of the High Court. If so, Deri is currently evading the legal disgrace. Law and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit.

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Avoiding disgrace.

Deri (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel, Flash 90)

The disgrace begins in October 2012. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef succumbs to Deri's threats that he is going to form a rival party to Shas, and he decides to return him to the movement's leadership, a move he was not quick to do before and there were clear indications that he did not intend to do so. The Shas leadership has a man convicted of accepting bribes, reward bribes, pockets of money, and running for it, after deducting a third, two years in prison. The first disgrace in this ugly saga lies at the mouth of this righteous and wise rabbi, who succumbed to the threats of the activist he raised.

Deri initially joins the unsuccessful trio leadership along with Eli Yishai and Ariel Atias, but soon pushes the two out, and in May 2013 completes the renewed takeover of the party when he is again appointed chairman of the movement alone. In this election he is also re-elected to the Knesset.

After the next elections in 2015, Deri will already be appointed a minister in the government.

First Minister of Economics, and then shamelessly, the move could be possible only in the government with the properties of corrupt real returns to the scene of the crime, the Interior Ministry office by virtue of a term in which the CEO and the minister received thousands of dollars in bribes.

Legally it was possible, since the past seven years Since the end of his prison sentence, but a return to the politics of a released prisoner, and more reward for the crime scene - we have not yet had one. In the late 1990s, the second and particularly glaring stigma is imprinted on Netanyahu's forehead.

Allow the disgrace.

Netanyahu (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

In March 2016, Attorney General Mandelblit surprisingly announces the opening of another criminal investigation against Deri. charity. But in practice, during a slow and smeared investigation, it becomes increasingly clear that there is a great distance between the suspicions with which the counselor set out and what he manages to hold in his hands.

At each status meeting between the attorney general and the police, it became clear that suspicions were dwindling. In November 2018, after two years and eight months of investigation - an inconceivable scandal in itself - the police publish their recommendations to prosecute Deri on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust, tax offenses and money laundering. The State Attorney's Office's work on the case is ongoing for another two years and two months. Why the hell? What moral right is there to hold a criminal case in offices for so long? Even during this period the suspicions shrink and it is already difficult to identify them. In January this year, Mandelblit announces that he is considering prosecuting Deri only for tax offenses related to the sale of property and income from companies. After the hearing and almost another year of smearing, these offenses are also reduced. Mandelblit does not know how to swallow the case, but he also has no idea how to vomit it, and he is dragged into the embarrassing plea deal.

The counsel, the prosecution and the police, have plenty of reasons to provide us with why this investigation has been stretched for so long. I have heard these explanations about the sea of ​​tax material, account sheets and information from abroad that requires requests for investigation, and other rotten vegetables. These are embarrassing explanations. There is no explanation and reason in the world to keep such a case open for so many years. The above schedules speak for themselves There is no reason in the world to create this horrific torture, a move that will always be interpreted as holding the suspect politician's throat or bushes. On the other hand, there is also no reason to leave the public so helpless as for six years and four election campaigns .

I wrote my opinion here a long time ago - in this state of affairs, the new Deri case had to be closed, hid.

no less.

Since there was no justification for spreading such a long time, and since it was not Deri who wasted his time in idle proceedings (as Lieberman, for example, did in his case at the time), Mandelblit had to shelve the case, and certainly not reach this ridiculous plea agreement that is nothing and nothing, pathetic experience Save something from the prosecution's lost dignity;

An experience whose price, among other things, is fueling conspiracy theories against law enforcement agencies.

If so, the third stigma in this case is imprinted on the foreheads of law enforcement agencies, led by the Attorney General.

Dragged into the awkward plea deal.

Mandelblit (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Unlike the first affair, in which Deri was presented as a victim by his fan base, although in practice he was the perpetrator, in the second affair he is also a victim.

It is clear that if from the outset the suspicions were the two tax offenses for which he would confess, the road would not have been so long and offensive and it is not inconceivable that it would have been redundant in paying some ransom.

Despite this, the fourth stigma in this affair is definitely imprinted on the forehead of Aryeh Deri;

Not that disgrace, the kind of legal one, that will now elude him, but the public disgrace.

The latest investigation, which ended in only two tax offenses (without underestimating them, the harm is in the way the process is conducted), is a reminder of the negative record he recorded when he boldly did not feel ashamed to return to politics, to return to office in which he received bribes.

The reminder is that Deri has not learned any lessons about his crimes, and that under his amiable and rolling-eyed appearance, hides a man who despises from the bottom of his heart the law enforcement authorities, the Israeli legal system, and its rules of justice.

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