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The new government has an ugly little
secret: an indictment of the Shas leader
could bring down the coalition.
hile Yitzhak Rabin
and the Labor Party
are charting a new
direction and showing the
shining new face of Israel to
the world, they have this
little blemish, this little em-
barrassment they don't like
to talk about. It's called
"Shas."
Along with the left-wing
Meretz party, the Shas
(Sephardi Torah Guardians)
party is one of Labor's two
coalition partners in the
government. For more two
years, Shas has been the
focus of one of the most con-
troversial, painstaking
criminal investigations in
the country's history.
Whatever the lofty goals of
Labor's and Meretz's
leaders, the overriding goal
for a host of Shas's leaders is
just to stay out of jail.
The key suspect in the cor-
ruption probe is Arye Deri,
the head of Shas's Knesset
faction and Israel's Interior
Minister since 1988. He is
alleged to have illegally
transferred millions of
dollars in public monies to
the party's religious institu-
tions, and, along with some
of his associates, to have
pocketed hundreds of
thousands of dollars in
bribes and kickbacks.
State prosecutors are
wrapping up their investiga-
tion. They're confident they
have enough evidence to
draw up an indictment of
about 20 criminal counts
against Mr. Deri, according
to justice officials.
Despite the Shas scandal,
Mr. Rabin has gotten hardly
any criticism for taking the
party into the government.
It's understood that the
prime minister had little
choice — if he hadn't ac-
cepted Shas, he would have
fallen short of a Knesset
majority and couldn't have
formed a government at all.
And the Likud, which didn't
hesitate to hand out cabinet
ministries and privileges to
Shas when it was in power —
the period when all the
alleged crimes took place —
is in no position to criticize.
Mr. Deri wasn't always
what he is today, the symbol
of corruption in this country.
He started out his career as
the boy wonder of
Orthodox politics. When he
took over the Interior port-
folio at age 29, he was the
youngest government min-
ister in Israel's history. He
was dovish on the Israeli-
Palestinian question, very
sympathetic to Israeli
Arabs, and, compared to his
Orthodox elders, reasonable
on religious-secular
disputes.
With his boyish, if beard-
ed, face, sensitive eyes, and
earnest manner, Mr. Deri
radiated sincerity and good
intentions. He was a real
charmer, and, for better or
worse, a skilled ad-
ministrator. The story goes
that Mr. Deri was "made"
when he won over Rabbi
Once the
indictment is
ready, Mr. Deri
might well demand
government
backing for
immunity as Shas's
price for staying
with Mr. Rabin.
Ovadia Yosef, former Chief
Sephardi Rabbi of Israel and
the ultimate authority in
Shas, while giving Torah
lessons to the chief rabbi's
son, said Prof. Eliezer Don-
Yehiya, an expert on Israeli
politics and religion at Bar-
Ilan University.
During the scandal,
however, Mr. Deri has
shown radically different
sides of his personality.
Alternating between
outrage and self-pity, he and
his Shas colleagues have
portrayed themselves as
martyrs, persecuted by the
police, the press and political
enemies because they are
Sephardim and deeply re-
ligious. Shas voters — the
Sephardi Orthodox in
Jerusalem and B'nei Brak,
and Sephardi traditional
Jews in the poor develop-
ment towns and urban slums
— responded to this appeal
in the election.
Shas leaders have claimed
loudly that the proof of their
innocence is that police and
state prosecutors have in-
vestigated them for over two
years, yet have still not
pressed charges. A few days
after joining the govern-
ment, Mr. Deli said: "I have
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