An Israeli lawmaker faces criminal investigation for trying to obtain a university degree by fraud. Yair Peretz of the Shas Party yielded his parliamentary immunity Monday after it surfaced that police secretly had recorded him bargaining for a bogus degree from Bar-Ilan University.
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