Bezalel Smotrich

Smotrich claims forming government with Arab party was ‘greater calamity’ than October 7 failings

The finance minister suggested that politicians who went into coalition with the Ra’am party ‘sold the State of Israel to its enemies’

By Jacob Jaffa

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset on March 29, 2026 (Flash90)

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2026 (Flash90)

West Bank

Israel withholds over $200 million in PA tax revenue

By JC Reporter

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Defence Minister Israel Katz, (3L), Yossi Dagan, Head of the Shomron Regional Council (4L), and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (4R) stand for the national anthem as they attend the resettlement ceremony of Sa-Nur, south of Jenin, in the West Bank on April 19, 2026 (Getty Images)

West Bank

Israeli ministers hail restored West Bank settlement for ‘killing the idea of a Palestinian state

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich (Photo: Flash90/JNS)

Israel-Iran War

Bezalel Smotrich’s son ‘wounded by a Hezbollah rocket’, finance minister confirms

By JC Reporter

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Image: Getty Images)

West Bank

Smotrich calls on next government ‘encourage migration’ of Palestinians from the West Bank

By Jamie Shapiro

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich seen after a press conference at the Ministry of Finance in Jerusalem on December 4, 2025 (Flash90)

West Bank

Israel confirms creation of 19 new West Bank settlements

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich talks with a Charedi MK ahead of US President Trump's address to the Knesset on October 13, 2025 (Getty Images)

Israeli Politics

Religious Zionism expected to back revised Charedi draft bill

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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Smotrich claims he’s in talks with Trump administration over post-war Gaza ‘real estate bonanza’

The far-right minister has long advocated Israeli settlement of the Strip and the ‘voluntary emigration’ of the Palestinian population

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

September 18, 2025 10:32

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich sits before a press conference near the settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank on August 14, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Smotrich approves more than 3,000 new homes in long-frozen West Bank settlement to ‘bury Palestinian state’

The project has been delayed for more than a decade due to international opposition

By JC Reporter

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August 14, 2025 10:31

A view of neighbourhoods in Ma'ale in the West Bank (Image: Yonatan Sindel/ Flash 90)

By Yaakov Katz

Netanyahu’s Gaza options are limited but the biggest constraints are self-inflicted

Attacked by left and right, the prime minister’s plans to seize the Strip’s capital risks deepening the Jewish state’s isolation. The failure to outline a coherent “day after” plan is a huge mistake

4 min read

August 10, 2025 13:41

Protesters gather in a demonstration organised by the families of the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 calling for action to secure their release outside the Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich poses next to ‘death to Arabs’ graffiti during West Bank visit

The image was taken during a tour of settlement Sa-Nur

By Eliana Silver

1 min read

August 7, 2025 12:06

Hostage talks collapse as Israel and Hamas both announce withdrawal

The terror group said it wouldn’t come back to the table until more aid entered Gaza, while Israel’s far-right finance minister claimed only the its ‘total surrender’ would be accepted

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

August 1, 2025 13:47

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (c) has seemingly confirmed that Israel will not engage in any more ceasefire negotiations with Hamas (Image: Getty)

Netherlands sanctions far-right Israeli ministers over ‘calls for ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza

The move was condemned by right-wing opposition figures as ‘hatred against Israel’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

July 29, 2025 09:41

The Netherlands has banned far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich (L) and Itamar Ben-Gvir (R) from entering the country over their alleged 'incitement' of settler violence in the West Bank and 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza (Image: Flash90)

Far-right minister claims IDF chief supports ‘security annexation’ of sections of Gaza

Bezalel Smotrich predicted that Israel would maintain a ‘permanent presence’ in the enclave even after the war ends

By JC Reporter

2 min read

July 23, 2025 14:30

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has claimed that IDF's chief of staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, supports the 'security annexation' of sections of Gaza (Image: Flash90)

Yair Golan claims far-right ministers are ‘not Zionists’ and ‘not Jews’ over reactions to IDF deaths

The former IDF deputy chief of staff turned leftist MK lashed out at Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, accusing them of ‘dancing on the blood’ of five Charedi soldiers killed by a roadside bomb

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

July 8, 2025 10:38

Yair Golan has claimed that far-right ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are 'not Jews' after accusing them of politicising the deaths of five Charedi IDF soldiers (Image: Flash90)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Sanction speech in the Jewish state, tolerate antisemitism all around it

While Lammy targets Israeli ministers, the UK turns a blind eye to open Jew hate from Muslim countries – revealing a foreign policy not exactly guided by principles

4 min read

June 12, 2025 15:18

Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, David Lammy, arrives at 10 Downing Street (Image: Getty)

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Bezalel Smotrich

Smotrich claims forming government with Arab party was ‘greater calamity’ than October 7 failings

Israel withholds over $200 million in PA tax revenue

Israeli ministers hail restored West Bank settlement for ‘killing the idea of a Palestinian state

Bezalel Smotrich’s son ‘wounded by a Hezbollah rocket’, finance minister confirms

Smotrich calls on next government ‘encourage migration’ of Palestinians from the West Bank

Israel confirms creation of 19 new West Bank settlements

Religious Zionism expected to back revised Charedi draft bill

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