The "Stinking Maneuver" II

In 1990, Shimon Peres and then-Shas leader Aryeh Deri attempted to bring down the government of then-Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir by leaving their national unity government with Shamir and installing Peres as Prime Minister. The incident was dubbed the "stinking maneuver" by Peres' Labor party rival Yitzchak Rabin. It failed when Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox leader Rabbi Eliezer Menachem Mann Shach