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PM said to summon Ben Gvir and Smotrich, amid efforts to reach hostage-truce deal
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Left: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, January 16, 2025; Right: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, January 13, 2025. (Both photos by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have been summoned to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, amid ongoing efforts to reach a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas, according to both Channel 12 and the Kan public broadcaster.
The two far-right ministers opposed the previous two hostage-ceasefire deals reached with the terror group amid the ongoing war in Gaza, and have claimed that they foiled other deals that would have come to pass.
They have also threatened to collapse the government if any deal is agreed to that would end the war and leave Hamas in power.
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