Israel's parliament on Thursday approved the framework for the 2025 state budget and its accompanying economic plan, clearing ...

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, just two months old, has been shaky for some time. But that was thoroughly shattered ...

"We are more determined than ever to complete the task and destroy Hamas," Said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

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The agreement reached in January, under pressure from the outgoing Biden administration and the incoming Trump one, called ...

Israel's renewed war on Gaza, which on Tuesday killed more than 400 Palestinians, including over 100 children, is perhaps the most blatant politically motivated Israeli military move since the ...

A key governing partner of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the return to fighting in Gaza. Bezalel Smotrich had threatened to leave the government if fighting did not resume, which ...

The days of Ronen Bar as Israel's Shin Bet chief were already numbered after Hamas's deadly attack on October 7, 2023, having ...

The wave of Israeli strikes ... plunge Netanyahu into a political crisis that could end his nearly uninterrupted 15-year rule. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich had threatened to leave ...

A look at the rise Israel's finance minister who has become perhaps the most influential man in the country, alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.