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Naomi Segal
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
08-09-1996
Israeli justice minister resigns after obstruction probe ordered.

By Naomi Segal

JERUSALEM, Aug. 8 (JTA) -- Nearly two months after the Netanyahu government was formed, a Cabinet minister has resigned.

Justice Minister Ya'acov Ne'eman offered his resignation Thursday after Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair instructed police to open an investigation against him for allegedly obstructing court proceedings relating to the case of Shas Knesset member Aryeh Deri.

Deri, a former interior minister in the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, resigned from his Cabinet post in 1993 after being indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of ...

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