The coalition deemed the president's proposal "one-sided, biased and unacceptable" soon after it was presented on Wednesday night.
The law proposal's purpose is to enable Netanyahu to reinstate Deri after the High Court struck down his appointment last month.
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Committee chairman MK Ofir Katz argued that the prime minister knows how an appointment best serves the government.
Health Ministry director-general Moshe Bar Siman Tov lauded Deri in a statement released shortly after the budget passed a government vote.
The attorney-general has failed to answer the appeal because Netanyahu himself had failed to give her an explanation as to why the appointment was indeed reasonable.
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