Report: PM’s associates offering to deepen settler hold of West Bank if Smotrich doesn’t thwart hostage deal

Channel 12 reports that associates of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are holding meetings with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in order to try to convince him to back the hostage deal on the table, or at least to not work to collapse the government if it advances.

The Netanyahu associates are offering Smotrich a package of compensation measures, which focus largely on further entrenching Israel’s presence in the West Bank, Channel 12 reports.

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