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.

On Wednesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hosted Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right advocate of settlement expansion and annexation of Palestinian land who had ...

Their approach—as articulated most explicity by far-right politicians Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir (the latter quit the coalition in protest when the ceasefire went into ...

The assessment is compounded by pressure on Netanyahu from hard-right ministers and supporters, such as finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and former national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.

The assessment is compounded by pressure on Netanyahu from hard-right ministers and supporters, such as finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and former national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir. Their ...

Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who supports the annexation of the occupied West Bank, said on Tuesday that he was travelling to the United States for a brief visit.

JERUSALEM, March 4 (Reuters) - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich left for high-level talks in the U.S. on Tuesday, leaving behind a growing coalition crisis with ultra-Orthodox parties who ...

Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who denies the existence of Palestinians, supports the annexation of the occupied West Bank and the starvation of Gazans, said on Tuesday that ...

Finance Committee chairman MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) harshly criticized a statement by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) regarding coalition funds, made during a ...

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will head to Washington in the coming days to meet with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and discuss economic and political cooperation, Smotrich’s ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will head to Washington in the coming days to meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and discuss economic and political ...