For the billionaire: The reason why Deri agreed to be offset for the first time

October 16, 2021   

Since the Bennett-Lapid-Abbas government was formed last June, Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri has become the leader of the "no offsets" approach. However, according to a report by Michael Shemesh on 'Kan News'', This week - for the first time - Deri agreed to offset with an MK from the coalition. The lucky one was MK Ram Ben Barak from Yesh Atid. And what was the reason? Moroccan billionaire Yariv Elbaz married his daughter in Marrakech, Morocco, this week. Elbaz, who was also one of the central figures in creating the peace agreement between Morocco and Israel, invited two Knesset members to the wedding - Aryeh Deri and Ben Barak. Aryeh Deri did not travel to the event, but he did send a kind of gift - MK Ram Ben Barak, who traveled thanks to the offset he received from the Shas chairman. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, MK Ram Ben Barak, said: "Yariv Elbaz is a close personal friend with whom I led the historic and important peace agreement with Morocco behind the scenes. I am happy to participate in the wedding of the lover of Israel, my friend Yariv Elbaz, and of course all travel expenses were paid for from my own pocket.".