Topic - Bezalel Smotrich

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a former settler leader, cast the approval as a rebuke to Western countries that announced their plans to recognize a Palestinian state in recent weeks.

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“The people of Israel understand that the pressure must be applied to Hamas to convince them, not to the Israeli government,” Mr. Smotrich said in a post on X.

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