The contacts for the formation of the government: “I pledge”: one after the other, the new and old members of the Knesset stood and swore allegiance to the State of Israel. Immediately after the end of the event, the former Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is expected to form the next government, met with the chairman of religious Zionism, Bezalel Smotrich.
Smotrich, who played a large part in the overthrow of the previous government, demanded from the first moment one of the two major portfolios of Treasury and Defense, but Deri’s decision to take the Ministry of Finance played the cards. Following the same decision by Deri, Smotrich aims for the position of Minister of Defense, which Netanyahu is reluctant to give. Journalist Yehuda Schlesinger reports this evening (Tuesday) that the gap between the two party leaders regarding settlement is quite large. While Smotrich aims to take advantage of the right-wing government’s opportunity and advance his political doctrine, Netanyahu is actually interested in industrial peace, for the benefit of American President Biden.
Netanyahu and Smotrich Photo: None
Insist not to establish a government without a clear clause for settling settlements
At the Young Settlement Forum, they commented on the comments and presented the photo in which Netanyahu signs in his own handwriting a commitment to regulate the young settlement, “In light of the publications that Prime Minister-designate Netanyahu is retracting the commitment he gave with his signature to regulate the young settlement in the West Bank due to the Biden administration, we call on him to clarify the things and stand firmly behind his commitment to the settlement of the young settlement.”
I also added a call to the senior coalition partnership in the national camp to insist that no new government be formed without a clear clause in the coalition agreements for the settlement of the settlements, “The government in the US has no reason to refrain from providing elementary infrastructure to the settlements, and any government that is formed without such a clear conclusion is nothing but a fake right-wing government And it’s better not to get up.”
On the other hand, Likud officials claim that at their meeting this evening, Netanyahu suggested that Smotrich form a government immediately in order to take advantage of the window of opportunity to approve the new settlement, “Given the political and security situation, there is no reason to waste a single moment on jobbers instead of taking advantage of the opportunity.”
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— Knesset Channel (@KnessetT) November 15, 2022