Bezalel Smotrich is an Israeli politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of Finance since 2022 and leads the Religious Zionist Party. He co-founded Regavim, an organization monitoring unauthorized Palestinian and Bedouin construction, before entering national politics. First elected to the Knesset in 2015, he later took leadership of the National Union faction in 2019 and served as Minister of Transport. As Minister of Finance, he was also granted broad authority over civil affairs in the occupied West Bank.
In the news: Attacked Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas for failing to classify Hamas as a terror organization, declaring that Abbas cannot be part of any government coalition.
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