 However, during the fifth Knesset he was appointed Minister of Justice by Ben-Gurion despite being outside the Knesset.When Ben-Gurion was replaced by Eshkol he remained Justice Minister, but was not reappointed after the 1965 elections.Yosef caused a political scandal when he published in 1960 an autobiographic book, "The Faithful City", which focused on the siege of Jerusalem in 1948.