The following was prompted by headlines such as the Jerusalem Posts’ "Deri Questioned, 14 Detained In Corruption Investigation." Deri currently is serving as Interior Minister. This is the second time the Shas party leader has found himself in trouble with the law.
I thought of Flatto Sharon, of Moshe Katsav and Ehud Olmert, but then I got lazy and asked Google for a list of "Members of Israeli Knesset who served time in jail."
Wikipedia has a page titled "List of Israeli public officials convicted of crimes or misdemeanors."
What a surprise.
So herewith, Israeli's politicians of infamy.
- 1 president (Katzav)
1 prime minister (Olmert)
10 ministers (Sitting ministers in bold
- Aharon Abuhatzira (NRP) served as the Minister of Religious Services, Minister of Immigrant Absorption, and Minister of Welfare & Social Services.
Shlomo Benizri (Shas) served as Minister of Health and Labor and Social Welfare Minister
Aryeh Deri (Shas) – Minister of Internal Affairs
Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud-Kadima) former Minister of Justice, Minister of Internal Security, and Minister of Intelligence and Nuclear Affairs.
Avraham Hirschson (Likud-Kadima) Israeli Minister of Finance between 2006 and 2007.
Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) former foreign minister, defense minister.
Yitzhak Mordechai (Likud-Centre) Israel's Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport in the 1990s.
Rafael Pinhasi (Shas) served as Minister of Communications between 1990 and 1992. In 1997,
Haim Ramon (Labor) Israel's Minister of Health, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Minister of Justice.
Gonen Segev (Tzomet-Yiud) The National Infrastructure Minister of Israel between 1995 and 1996.
12 members of knesset
- Naomi Blumenthal –Likud
Shlomo Dayan –Shas
Shmuel Flatto-Sharon
Michael Gorlovsky – Likud
Yehiel Hazan –Likud
Ofer Hugi –Shas
Yair Levy – Shas
Yair Peretz –Shas
Shmuel Rechtman Likud
Omri Sharon –Likud and Kadima
Saleh Tarif
Yosef Vanunu – Labor
Wikipedia provides links to all biographies of the politicians named above.
Note that none of the Arab lists are represented, despite their anti-Israel positions. Arab Joint List member Basel Ghattas is to serve 2 years in jail for exploiting his position to smuggle cell phones and notes to convicted Palestinian terrorists. In a plea deal he also resigned from the knesset.
If the links fail to work, see http://tinyurl.com/y82lye4d to learn how to find/access them. It's a Google problem.
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