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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Party Leader Resigns over Graft

Aryeh Deri, pictured here in 2015, served as Israeli ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu's interior minister. (AFP)

The leader of Israel's largest ultra-Orthodox Jewish party submitted his resignation from parliament Sunday, after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors in a tax fraud case.

Aryeh Deri, who served as ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu's interior minister, leads the Shas party, the third largest bloc in Israel's fractured parliament with nine of the Knesset's 120s seats.

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