Aryeh Deri

Aryeh Deri

Politician · b. 1959

Sephardi · EstablishedIsrael & the Diaspora Today

Moroccan-born leader of the Shas party and Israeli interior minister. He was convicted of bribery in 1999 and served a prison sentence, and later pleaded guilty to tax offenses.

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