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Bezalel Yoel Smotrich (Hebrew: בְּצַלְאֵל יוֹאֵל סְמוֹטְרִיץ׳, born 27 February 1980) is an Israeli far-right politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of Finance since 2022. The leader of the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism, he previously served as a Knesset member for Yamina.
Jun 2, 2024 · Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich reject the US-backed ceasefire deal. Two far-right Israeli ministers have threatened to quit and collapse the governing coalition if Prime Minister ...
18 hours ago · Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday called for talks next week to draft the 2025 state budget which he said would be "marathon discussions" aimed at moving the economy on from a ...
May 22, 2024 · The decision by the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right leader who opposes Palestinian sovereignty, threatened to push the Palestinian government into a deeper fiscal crisis.
4 days ago · Earlier this week, Democratic US Senator Chris Van Hollen called on the Biden administration to sanction far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich under the same executive order.
Nov 30, 2022 · A few days shy of his 29th birthday, Bezalel Smotrich was making his first foray into frontline Israeli politics. That Knesset bid, which failed, came just four years after he was arrested by the...
Mar 21, 2023 · Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich denied the existence of a Palestinian people or nationhood over the weekend, prompting a rebuke from the United States just weeks after...
Mar 31, 2023 · Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, is a longtime advocate of contentious plans to overhaul the judiciary. He has also exacerbated tensions with Palestinians and Israel’s allies.
Nov 16, 2022 · Bezalel Smotrich is an ultranationalist who opposes Palestinian sovereignty and wants to govern Israel by Jewish law. He seeks the Defense Ministry in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Mar 9, 2023 · A Jewish supremacist and racist, Smotrich dreams of a theocratic state subject to religious law, a state that he would like to see extend from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, over the...
