Two of the extreme right -wing ministers of the Israeli cabinet, who are faced with sanctions from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway, are fundamental to the political survival of Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu was formed in 2022, the most right government in the history of Israel after negotiations on the coalition with Bezalla Visorich, whose party, religious Zionism, has 14 out of 120 seats in the Kneste – and Itamar Ben GVIR, the leader of the Jewish government, adds six dispatches.
Two formations collect only 20 out of 67 places of coalition in parliament, but their influence is huge, because if they leave – how they both repeatedly threaten – the government will fall.
Netanyahu is currently being persecuted for corruption and rejects the requests of an official investigation of attacks on October 7, 2023, so that you want to avoid early elections.
Further, short similarities of life and careers of both men before entering the government:
Bezalel Smotych, Minister of Finance
Skorikh -the messianic settler, who was born in Altos -Tod -Golan, occupied by Israel, in 1980. Now he lives on the west coast and repeatedly asked for the Israeli settlers to return to Gaza.
He believes that the Jews have divine law to the whole land, which was biblical Israel. His personal and political life is marked by an obligation to expand the region controlled by Israeli Jews. de -factor as through legal annexation.
In 2005, he was arrested for SHIN BET security services and for several weeks was questioned for participating in protests against Israel’s plans to leave Gaza under suspicion that he planned to block roads and damage to the infrastructure in order to try to prevent withdrawal.
He was released without accusations, created influential right -wing NGOs focused on the control of the occupied land, and received his first place in parliament in 2015.
See proclaimed himself with a “fascist homophobe”, supported the segregation of pregnant women, who separate Jewish mothers from Arabs in hospitals and asked the government to answer attacks on the Palestinians. Once he organized a parade of Antija against pride.
Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of Security
Ben Gvir hugged extremism so young that the forces of the national security of Israel banned him to serve in the army of the country when he was a teenager.
Born in 1976 in a family of Iraqi descent in a small city on the outskirts of Jerusalem, he became an extreme right activist when he was still at school, and continued to study correctly.
At 30, he was already convicted of inciting to racism and support for a terrorist organization. These proposals did not prevent him from becoming a lawyer; He specialized in the submission of Jewish Israelis accused of crimes related to terrorism.
His living room was decorated with a portrait of Barukha Goldstein, who shot 29 Palestinians in the mosque of Hvron in 1994. Goldstein, like Ben Gvir, was a fan of the extremist rabbi Meir Kahana.
Having spent most of his life as a figure outside of Israeli politics, Ben Gvir received a security portfolio when he joined the Netanyahu government. Now he controls the police forces that once arrested him and the prisons where he was held.