Finance Minister and Religious Zionism leader; quoted on Gaza depopulation and settlement expansion in intent analyses.
Government salary.
Religious Zionism party; settler movement.
Leader of the Religious Zionism party and settler movement; Passover and other addresses calling for depopulation or 'total annihilation' in Gaza are cited in intent analyses. Government coalition partner — not sole author of military policy.
Primary-source rhetoric cited by NGOs and UN experts as indicative of destructive intent; disputed by Israeli government.
On the record
Verbatim quotations in this project attributed to this person.
Case: gaza palestinians 2023 →“There are no half measures. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat — total annihilation. 'You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.'”
Case: gaza palestinians 2023 →“If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not two million, the whole discourse about the day after will be different.”
Cases in this record
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Sources & disclosures
- Passover address (cited) — Times of Israel