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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Reservists party endorses Smotrich’s legislative boycott over tax break for reserve troops
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Yoaz Hendel’s Reservists party calls on all members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to join Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in boycotting votes until the Knesset passes legislation providing tax credits for IDF reservists.
“There are also those in the Likud who understand the injustice. Don’t be silent. The minimum required is to reward those who serve and take money from those who evade. A government that evades its duties is a government that acts against the state,” the Reservists party says in a statement.
In a statement earlier today, Smotrich announced that “in light of Likud’s refusal to advance the bill… to provide tax benefits to reservists, the Religious Zionism faction will not vote with the coalition until the Tax Benefits for Reservists Law is approved in second and third reading.”
The Reservist party was only recently formed and has no representation in the current Knesset.
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