At the direction of Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, two more Shas ministers will resign from the Knesset in accordance with the Norwegian Law, allowing two more Shas members to enter the Knesset.
Welfare and Social Affairs Minister Yaakov Margi and Chaim Biton, who serves as Minister Without Portfolio in the Education Ministry, will join Labor Minister Yoav Ben-Tzur, the first Shas minister to resign from the Knesset. They will be replaced by the next Shas members on the list.
Attorney Erez Malol, 48, a father of six children, attended Yeshivos Yakirei Yerushalayim and Ateres Yisrael. He has a Teudas Yoreh Yoreh and has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in law. He managed Machon Yechava Daas, and later served as an advisor to the religious services ministry, as chief of staff of the office of the director-general of the religious services ministry, and as the deputy director-general of the Batei Kevaros Council in Jerusalem.
ארז מלול שנכנס כמועמד לרשימת ש"ס לכנסת, מתברך הבוקר מחבר מועצת חכמי התורה הגאון רבי משה מאיה pic.twitter.com/wHb3a19Xym
— אבי רבינא Avi Ravina (@AviRabina) September 15, 2022
Adv. Simon Moshiashvili, 45, a father of five, served in the Israeli Navy, has a bachelor’s degree in law, owns a private law firm, and is a former member of Kiryat Ata city council. He has been active for many years on behalf of the Georgian community in Israel and serves in Shas as a representative of the community.
Interestingly, Moshiashvili was a representative of Degel HaTorah in the past while serving as a member of the Kiryat Ata city council.
חבר מועצת העיר קרית אתא מטעם 'דגל', הר' סימון מושיאשוילי, מקביל פני רבו בחג אצל מרן הגרי"ג אדלשטיין בסוכתו. pic.twitter.com/8nv1Skc3Ot
— אברהם גרינצייג (@avigrin10) October 8, 2017
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Both are clearly well qualified advocates for the Sephardic community and good selections, even if you don’t agree with their policy positions.
And Shas gets to have two additional people with good jobs (compared to if Deri was holding the positions). The “Norway” system is a major device for patronage, since the member of parliament who gets the ministerial positions gets a raise, and someone new now gets to draw a salary as a member of parliament. And for someone from a non-affluent background (such as most of Shas), a member of the Kenesset is a good job. And after all, a major reason for politics is to provide parnassah to politicians (which is not to say that is a bad thing- when legislators were expected to serve at their own expense it effectively limited public service to rich aristocrats).