Rabbi Moshe Maya, the eldest member of Shas' Council of Torah Sages, called for the Override Clause to be passed within 24 hours in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling disqualifying Aryeh Deri from serving as a government minister.
The Override Clause would allow the Knesset to repass laws struck down by the Supreme Court with a simple majority of 61 MKs. The haredi parties, the Religious Zionist Party, and Otzma Yehudit have demanded that the Override Clause allow the approval of such laws a by simple majority of 61 MKs.
"I am unfazed by this (the Supreme Court ruling about Deri -ed.)," Rabbi Maya said in an interview with journalist Yisrael Yoskovitz from the Mishpacha newspaper. "They will have to pass the Override Law, and then the judicial system will be to blame for the war that will start. In any case, the Override Clause must be passed, but now we need to hurry, [and pass it] within 24 hours."
Asked if the ruling against Deri is part of the persecution of him by the legal authorities, he replied, "It's part of the persecution, they're afraid of him. Everyone talks about him being the responsible adult and all these things. But they continue to persecute."