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Shlomo Benizri ((ヘブライ語:שלמה בניזרי); born 7 February 1961) is an Israeli politician and member of the Shas party. He represented Shas in the Knesset between 1992 and 2008, serving as Deputy Health Minister, Minister of Health, and Labor and Social Welfare Minister during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was later convicted for accepting bribes, breach of trust, conspiring to commit a crime and obstruction of justice, and served a prison sentence.〔 ==Biography== Born in Haifa, Benizri attended the Nesher Comprehensive High School, before being ordained as a rabbi at the ”Or Hachaim” Talmudic College in Jerusalem. He later was head of a Talmudic college and worked as a lecturer on Judaism. He was first elected to the Knesset in 1992 on Shas' list, and served as the party's parliamentary group chairman during his first term. He was re-elected in 1996, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Health in Binyamin Netanyahu's government. He was re-elected again in 1999 after being placed fifth on the Shas list,〔(Parties and Lists ) ''The Jerusalem Post''〕 and was appointed Minister of Health in Ehud Barak's government, serving in the cabinet until Shas left the government on 11 July 2000. He returned to the cabinet after Ariel Sharon formed a new government in 2001 as Labor and Social Welfare Minister, serving until the 2003 elections (aside from a period of two weeks in May–June 2002 when Shas withdrew from the coalition). For the 2003 elections Benizri was placed second on the Shas list,〔(Candidates for the 16th Knesset ) Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs〕 and was re-elected. For the 2006 elections he was dropped to sixth place.〔(List of Candidates: Shas ) Knesset website〕 Although he retained his seat, on 29 March 2006, the day following the elections, he was charged by the State Prosecutor's Office with accepting bribes and breaching the public trust. The decision to indict Benizri after the elections had already taken place was a conscious decision on the part of the Israeli attorney general Menachem Mazuz. On 1 April 2008, Benizri was convicted of accepting bribes, breach of faith, obstructing justice, and conspiracy to commit a crime for accepting favors worth millions of shekels from his friend, contractor Moshe Sela, in exchange for inside information regarding foreign workers scheduled to arrive in Israel. On 27 April 2008, a district court sentenced him to 18 months in jail and decided that his actions amount to moral turpitude. He resigned from the Knesset the same day and was replaced by Mazor Bahaina. Both Benizri and the state appealed the decision. On 24 June 2009, the Supreme Court upheld the decision and prolonged Benizri's jail time to 4 years. Shas MK Nissim Ze'ev declared after the sentencing: “He is a victim of the system that allows his fate to be decided by elitist judges, who care about his sector and his race and not the good deeds he performs. I have no doubt that an American jury would have treated him better. That's why we need a jury of our peers”. And Benizri's brother, Rabbi David Benizri claimed that “a conspiracy of top-ranking homosexuals was behind the Supreme Court's decision to aggravate the sentence”. Benizri began serving his sentence on September 1, 2009 in the religious division of Maasiyahu prison in Ramle. His cellmate from December 7, 2011 to his release was former president Moshe Katsav. In January 2012, a parole board reduced his sentence by 16 months due to good behavior, and set his release date for April. On March 1, 2012, Benizri was released early; he was one of 600 other prisoners whose sentences were commuted to ease overcrowing in Israeli prisons. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shlomo Benizri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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