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The chairman of religious Zionism, Bezalel Smotrich, is fighting for a senior portfolio in the next government, with the security portfolio being the portfolio he was interested in receiving according to the various publications. The one who is seen as the most suitable for the security portfolio is the member of the Knesset from the Likud, Avi Dichter. If that is not enough, the majority of respondents in the survey think that the one who is to blame for the fact that the government has not yet been formed is Smotrich himself.
Survey by Channel 14 and the Direct Falls Institute:
Who is to blame for the delay in establishing the government?
- 60% – Bezalel Smotrich
- 18% – Benjamin Netanyahu
- 3% – Aryeh Deri
- 19% – everyone is guilty
Which office should Smotrich get?
- 48% – Ministry of Transport or Internal Security
- 17% – Ministry of Justice
- 16% – Ministry of Defense
- 11% – Ministry of Finance
- 8% – no position
Who is the most suitable for the Ministry of Defense?
- 68% – Yoav Galant
- 14% – Bezalel Smotrich
- 11% – Avi Dichter
- 1% – Aryeh Deri
- 6% – other