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Smotrich: I have ‘tremendous respect’ for protesters, want to reach agreement
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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads his Religious Zionism faction's meeting at the Knesset, February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionism party, says in a statement claims the judicial shakeup will harm democracy are “a scaremongering campaign.”
Smotrich says he “would not want to live a single day in a country with a weak justice system.”
He says he has “tremendous respect and appreciation for the protesters” and says the proponents and critics of the government’s plan should strike to reach agreements.
“We are brothers,” he says. “I salute people who left everything yesterday and came to demonstrate. I love those people.”
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