(photo credit: ERIK MARMOR/FLASH90 ... were freed up along with the passage of the law.” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said, "Alongside rehabilitation comes development.

The offer is currently off the table, however, as it was blocked by Religious Zionist Party chairman Bezalel Smotrich.The offer came as part of an attempt to solve a coalition dispute between ...

The Religious Zionist Party, led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, fell below the electoral threshold with just 2.6% support. Overall, the coalition dropped by four seats, securing 54 mandates ...

On Sunday, Netanyahu’s cabinet approved a plan to separate and legalize 13 settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, a move that his far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich hailed as a ...

The leftist leader has vowed to bring inflation down. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich resigned from his post as minister on Monday in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

When the hostage deal was reached, the party’s leader, Bezalel Smotrich, said that Religious Zionism was staying in the government only because Netanyahu had promised to resume intensive ...

Far-right Israeli government ministers, chief among them Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, call for the blockage of all humanitarian aid and for a ...

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday said the security cabinet approved the proposal by Defense Minister Israel Katz to organize “a voluntary transfer for Gaza residents who ...

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich had hoped the budget would be approved by the end of 2024, but political infighting among coalition partners delayed the final vote. It was not clear when the full ...

New settlements in the West Bank Israel's Cabinet passed a measure creating 13 new settlements in the occupied West Bank by rezoning existing ones, according to Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's far ...

(CNN) — Israel’s security cabinet has approved a controversial proposal to facilitate Palestinian emigration from Gaza, a move critics warn could amount to ethnic cleansing. Israeli Finance ...