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Smotrich denies refusing to meet Netanyahu over cost of living crisis
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich denies a media report claiming that he refused to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the cost of living prior to a Rafah offensive.
Tweeting a screenshot from the Ynet news site, Smotrich calls the report “simply fake.”
“I have never refused to meet with the prime minister on the issue of the cost of living. I am working to curb the phenomenon of price increases that harms us all,” he writes.
According to the Ynet report, Smotrich allegedly repeatedly declined to meet with Netanyahu to discuss ways to lower the cost of living, in an attempt to pressure the government to take military action in Rafah.
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