By COLlive reporter
Right-wing Israeli politician Bezalel Smotrich was considering flying to New York before Shabbos to attend the International Kinus Hashluchim as a guest among the thousands of Chabad rabbis and lay leaders.
Smotrich, Chairman of the Religious Zionist Party, was going to use the trip to stall coalition talks, according to journalist Amit Segal.
Smotrich has been demanding to be appointed as Defense Minister in the forming government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to reports, the Biden Administration has been meddling in the new government and asked Netanyahu not to appoint Smotrich.
The Religious Zionist Party has made history with the biggest win by a national religious party, gaining 14 seats in the national election, thanks to a collaboration with Otzma Yehudit led by Itamar Ben-Gvir.
On Friday, Segal reported that Smotrich has “canceled his flight to the Shluchim gathering of Chabad” in another effort to overcome differences with Netanyahu and his Likud party.
VIDEO: i24NEWS discusses the appointment
On behalf of Crown Hts Women for the Safety and Integrity of Israel – we encourage Chairman of the Religious Zionist party Bezalel Smotrich to hold fast in demanding to be appointed as Israel’s next Defense Minister. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s request that Mr. Smotrich wait to take the position after President Biden is out of office must be met with a firm NO. Mr. Biden and his cronies anti-Semitic threats and complaints about “right wing” politicians’ wins in the recent Israeli election coupled by American intentions to open an investigation into the death of the Arab reporter show that any… Read more »
if Netanyahu lets Biden control Israel
he should not be prime minister
especially when he a coalition with them
i am not saying he has to listen to them by everything, he has listen to all three party’s.
but he should listen to them more then listening to Biden.
Jews are killed and attacked each day in israel. Rocks are thrown at Israeli Jewish cars. We need a real defense. Smotritch and Ben Gevir want tough laws against these terrorists. Soldiers should be allowed to shoot any stone throwers. No country in the world would stand for such terror. The old previous lefty government ties the hands of the police and soldiers. Jewish blood is not cheap. Biden won’t last long anyway at his age and condition. We need smotritch and ben Gevir to be running the defense and the chareidi parties running the yeshivas and all aspects of… Read more »
Netanyahu gave away Chevron, voted for the disengagement, froze all building in judea and shomron, gave the north, south, east and west to the Bedouin and Arabs and is completely controlled and unable to withstand the pressure from the corrupt deep state.d