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Oct 1, 2023
he can spend his money how he likes
MK Aryeh Deri (Shas) today in his sukka mentioned that he paid $5000 cash for his esrog.
Deri was in the process of shaking several esrogim in rotation, as it seems his custom is, in order to increase his chances of shaking a definitely kosher esrog, as some do, with varieties of esrogim with varying provenance. In the process he mentioned his own cost $5000 cash.
Deri came under fire for spending that kind of money on an esrog. Additionally, paying that kind of money cash sounds like it was "off the books" (I dont know if it actually was or not).
His office later put out a notice that he "was joking" when he said that.
Personally, Deri is a multi-millionaire and can spend his money how he likes. It is more of a question to me how a career politician (who had first been an avreich) became a multi-millionaire than how or why he spends $5k (about 18knis) on an esrog. And I ask this question of other politicians as well.
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It is illegal to spend more than 15,000 NIS cash on anything.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Deri is hardly the first "public servant" to grow filthy rich while in office. See one Biden, Joe. How it happens...maybe one day the whole stinking mess will blow up.
One wonders how much positive PR would've been generated if he donated NIS4500 to a food bank instead?
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