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Smotrich says government improving Israel’s security, diplomatic situation since Oct. 7
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the Knesset on May 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says the government is significantly improving the country’s security and standing in the Middle East after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre.
“We are responsible for the huge disaster of October 7,” the Ynet news site quotes him telling a real estate conference organized by Mishpacha, a Haredi weekly magazine.
“We are greatly improving the security, diplomatic, and geopolitical situation of the State of Israel after decades of conceptual errors of the security forces,” he adds.
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