Smotrich proudly admits being fed military intel outside accepted channels

Responding to a Kan report that he has a “mole” in the IDF who feeds him sensitive information, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says in a statement that “the expectation that senior ministers will receive security information from only one pipeline is not only mistaken — its the perfect example of the ‘concept.”

The term is shorthand for the trap of allowing conceptual ideas about Hamas or other enemies to become accepted wisdom rather than being challenged. Smotrich and others charge that Israel’s assumptions about Hamas’s supposed docility helped it catch the country off guard on October 7, 2023.

“Looking for the ‘mole’?” he asks. ‘”Go into any national religious synagogue — you’ll find dozens, if not hundreds, of combat soldiers and officers of all ranks, people who dedicate their lives to serving the country and its security.”

Smotrich promises he “will continue to work in every way to learn, challenge, to hear, and to delve in — because this is the path to victory for Israel.”