Smotrich demands IDF return to fighting after first phase of deal
The statement indicated that Smotrich did not receive the assurances he demanded in an earlier meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich attend a plenum session on forming the government, in the Israeli parliament, on December 29, 2022.(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)ByELIAV BREUER, JERUSALEM POST STAFFUpdated: