[1][2] He was educated at the Midrashiat Noam high-school yeshiva[1] and completed his military service in the Golani Brigade.

[4] Two months later he resigned from the cabinet, after Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Neeman had tried to suborn a witness in the trial of MK Aryeh Deri.

[4] Neeman was eventually cleared of the charges[4] and returned to the cabinet in July 1997 as Minister of Finance until the end of the Netanyahu premiership at the 1999 elections.

But he later denied this,[6] emphasizing that "the Knesset is the legislator in Israel, and the interpretation of its laws is determined by the [civil] courts."

He said that he advocated the use of religious courts only in an auxiliary role, to "resolve financial disputes in accordance with the principles of Jewish law.