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BASEMENTS Convert your basement into a spectacular lower level. We can show you how. SPECIALIZING IN DESIGN AND BUILD OF HANDICAP/BARRIER FREE CONSTRUCTION 11111111111- QUALITY CONSTRUCTION AL HARRIS CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE NO. 1 IN SALES FOR DETROIT AREA 846-5735 Telegraph & 12 Mile 7937 Schaefer Road • Dearborn, MI 64 FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1992 353-1300 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 <2, ri7f„ C.