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Bezalel Smotrich

Coalition minister — Israel · Israel

Affiliated with State of Israel (government)

Government-funded research

Finance Minister and Religious Zionism leader; quoted on Gaza depopulation and settlement expansion in intent analyses.

Financing

person
Money source

Government salary.

Institutional alignment

Religious Zionism party; settler movement.

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Disclosures & conflicts

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.

Credibility & caveats

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.

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