In video with Smotrich, Netanyahu says Israel’s enemies hoped budget wouldn’t pass

In a video with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich after passing the 2025 budget, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel’s enemies were hoping that the budget wouldn’t pass, leading to the fall of the government.

Netanyahu says that Iran, Hamas, and others were hoping this would prevent Israel “from achieving the great victory, on the edge of which we are truly standing.”

Netanyahu boasts that the government passed a budget “with a larger and more stable coalition than we had at the outset of the war.”

Smotrich says that the budget “responds to all the needs of the war, at the front and home, until victory.” He notes that the budget includes NIS 10 billion for reservists and their families and provides for the rehabilitation of the Gaza and Lebanon borders.