comitting a crime doesn’t always require teshuvah. Aveiros, violations of Hashem’s will require teshuva. People, especially women, often equate the word “illegal” with “wrong” and “aveirah,” but these are distinct concepts. Not every crime is wrong from a torah perspective, and not everything that’s wrong from a torah perspective is an aveirah.
Rav chaim kanievsky clearly wrote that israel, as an illegitimate state, has no right to impose taxes on its citizens. Rabbi Deri did some shtick to avoid taxes. According to the gadol hador, he did absolutely nothing wrong and has zero to do teshuvah for, even though it was illegal under israeli made-up law.
So not only did he not do an aveirah, he did nothing wrong either, as there’s no moral imperative to pay taxes to an oppressive, anti religious shmad state, especially when most of it will go to fund things that are, actually, sinful, such as israeli public schools and the abominable gender-mixed army.
If the law was valid according to the torah, then yes, barring Rabbi Deri would make some sense; but not a lot. Because politicians always scream about giving people who are “justice involved” second, third, fourth and fifth chances. In New York City, landlords will soon not be allowed to do background checks to see if someone was a murderer, because you canrt hold someone’s past against them.
Why should someone who did a crime not be able to hold office if he “paid his debt to society” or whatever they call it?