Bezalel Smotrich

Israel confirms creation of 19 new West Bank settlements

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the project, which includes the recognition of previously illegal outposts, is designed to prevent a potential Palestinian state in future

By Jacob Jaffa

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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)

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

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Bezalel Smotrich

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

By Jacob Jaffa

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

Israel

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

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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)

By Yaakov Katz

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

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Settlers

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

By Eliana Silver

1 min read

Hamas

Hostage talks collapse as Israel and Hamas both announce withdrawal

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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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)

US condemns UK sanctions against far-right Israeli ministers

Marco Rubio: ‘We remind our partners not to forget who the real enemy is’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

June 11, 2025 09:36

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has condemned the UK's decision to sanction two far-right Israeli ministers (Image: Getty)

UK sanctions far-right Israeli ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich for ‘incitement of West Bank violence’

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has condemned the move as ‘outrageous’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

June 10, 2025 13:07

The UK has sanctioned far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich (Image: Getty)

Smotrich preparing ‘operational plan’ to enforce ‘Israeli sovereignty’ over West Bank

Critics of the move claim it would amount to an annexation of the PA-administered territory

By JC Reporter

1 min read

June 6, 2025 13:21

Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered his office to draw up 'operational plans' to assert 'Israeli sovereignty' over the West Bank (Image: Flash90)

UK condemns Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements

Minister Hamish Falconer described the action as ‘a deliberate obstacle’ to the two-state solution

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

May 29, 2025 16:01

Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer. Credit: UK Parliament.

ICC considering warrants against Smotrich and Ben-Gvir

Chief prosecutor Karim Khan was reportedly preparing to seek the far-right ministers’ arrests before he was suspended pending an investigation into allegations of sexual assault against him

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

May 28, 2025 11:17

The ICC is reportedly considering issuing arrest warrants for far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich (Image: Getty)

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Bezalel Smotrich

Israel confirms creation of 19 new West Bank settlements

Religious Zionism expected to back revised Charedi draft bill

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

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

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

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

Hostage talks collapse as Israel and Hamas both announce withdrawal

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