Fromer Shas party leader released from prison

Описание: (15 Jul 2002)

Maasiyahu prison, Ramle
1. Various Arieh Deri leaving prison grounds
2. Deri walking out of prison towards press
3. Cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Arieh Deri:
"I have no intention to settle anything with anybody, not inside the party and not outside. I have respect for everyone. I just ask them to let me be with myself. I don't have any intention of entering any framework or any other role, they should leave me alone and I will leave them alone and we will stay close friends. Do not believe anyone else who speaks on behalf of me."
(Question: Tell us the truth - what will you really do now?)
"I am going home to my wife and children. And then I will take care of my home".
5. Long shot Deri speaking to reporters
6. Pan from prison guards to him
7. Various of Deri hugging and shaking hands with supporters
8. Deri getting into car
9. Car carrying Deri driving, then stopping and Deri greeting supporters through window

Jerusalem
10. Exterior Deri's house
11. Supporters outside house
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop, Deri supporter:
"His whole life he helps everyone."
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop, Deri supporter:
"He is our own king."
14. People waiting outside Deri's house
15. Pan from supporters to exterior house

STORYLINE:

The former leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party was released from jail on Monday after serving almost two years for corruption.

Arieh Deri left a prison in central Israel after a parole board decided last week to reduce his sentence by a third. The parole board stipulated in its decision that Deri refrain from political activity for a year.

Outside the prison, he told reporters he had made no plans to return to politics - and said he wanted to spend time with his family. But Deri, who is seen by supporters as being the champion of rights for Israel's underprivileged, hinted at a return to politics when he said he "I will return to the people of Israel."

He was later greeted by a crowd of supporters outside his Jerusalem home.

Deri was convicted in 1999 for accepting 155-thousand US dollars in bribes from contractors for favourable treatment while he was interior minister in the early 1990s.

The parole board decided to release Deri for good behavior despite his insistence that he is innocent.

Deri is credited with founding the Shas Party, whose support is based on ultra-Orthodox Jews as well as Jews from the Middle East and North Africa who complain of entrenched discrimination by state institutions.

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