Stefanik says Israel has 'biblical right' to West Bank Asked by Van Hollen if she agreed with the view held by some far-right Israeli officials, including finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and ex ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's reversal of sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on Israeli settler groups and individuals ...

Hardline pro-settler Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has responsibility for large parts of Israeli policy in the West Bank, said the operation was the start of a "strong and ongoing ...

Minister of Finance and Cabinet member Bezalel Smotrich congratulated Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi for many years of service in the IDF, and continued to criticize his performance in certain ...

Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister and leader of the Religious Zionism party, thanked Mr Trump and said the sanctions were “a serious act of gross foreign intervention in Israel’s internal ...

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has threatened to do the same if Netanyahu does not break the ceasefire once an initial 42-day phase is complete. “I demanded – and received – a commitment ...

Halevi was often criticized by hardliners in Netanyahu's government including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said his conduct of the war in Gaza was too soft. More than 46,000 Palestinians ...

Smotrich opposed the Gaza ceasefire deal but said his Religious Zionism party, which reflects the views of extremist settlers, requested that Israel’s cabinet include a West Bank ...

That makes the politically fraught process of choosing Halevi’s replacement especially urgent, giving an outsize influence to Netanyahu’s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich ...

Bezalel Smotrich made the threat Monday, a day after the cease-fire went into effect. “If, God forbid, the war is not resumed, I will bring the government down,” Smotrich told reporters.