He still needs to get laws his coalition partners have demanded passed before new ministers are sworn in.
Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Knesset member Aryeh Deri on Dec. 13. Photo: Gil Cohen/AFP via Getty Imagesnotified President Isaac Herzog late Wednesday that he has managed to form a government after 38 days of coalition negotiations.
Deri was convicted 18 months ago of tax fraud — his second criminal conviction. He signed a plea bargain in which he was sentenced to one-year probation and resigned from the Knesset. According to current Israeli law, a person who was sentenced to prison time or probation in the last seven years can’t serve as a minister. Deri demanded the law be changed so that it would apply only to people who served actual time in prison.
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