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.
Parliament okays a number of controversial laws in voting marathon
I know that the only way back to the right path is to return to our roots, our Zionist fundamentals.
Levin and Rothman: No connection to Israel's judicial reforms, which will continue on schedule.
The bill is an amendment to Basic Law: The Government. It passed in the Ministerial Legislation Committee on Sunday.
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
What if the government says one thing, the court says the opposite, and the parliament rejoins that the government no longer needs to abide by what the court says?