
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to dismiss Health and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri during Sunday morning's cabinet meeting.
According to a report by Channel 12 News' Amit Segal, the dismissal will take effect on Tuesday morning and was coordinated with Deri, who is unwilling to resign.
Earlier it was reported that Deri is expected to participate in Sunday's cabinet meeting.
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Shas chairman Aryeh Deri may not serve as a minister in the current government following his conviction for tax offenses one year ago.
Ten justices voted to disqualify Deri, while one justice, Yosef Elron, voted to allow Deri to continue to serve as a minister.
In their ruling, the justices stated that Deri's appointment as Interior and Health Minister "cannot stand. Most of the panel's judges determined that this appointment was extremely unreasonable, and therefore the Prime Minister should remove Deri from his position. This is, among other things, due to his backlog of criminal convictions, which also includes a conviction for tax offenses from February 2022, according to Deri's confession as part of a plea deal, and also due to what Deri presented to the Magistrate's Court that sentenced him for these offenses, according to which he would retire from political life, and his conduct thereafter."
