
Bezalel Smotrich's settlement plan is to annex the West Bank, increase settlements and bring an end to the Palestinian Authority. He works silently, away from the cameras and the Knesset podium. He is a professional politician who knows how to swim against the tide. Smotrich, who heads the Religious Zionist Party, was born in 1980 in an illegal settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan. His father is Haim Yeruham, the former rabbi of the Kiryat Arba yeshiva, which was one of the strongholds of the terrorist Kach movement. Smotrich grew up in the illegal Beit El settlement, and went to study at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva, from which leaders of the settler right graduated. It is considered the greenhouse of […]
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