Deri or Smotrich: Who will be Israel's defense, finance ministers? - analysis
This pattern indicates the following: Israel's two top ministerial portfolios, Defense and Finance, will either go to Bezalel Smotrich and Arye Deri – or to neither.
Religious Zionist party head MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the plenium hall during memorial ceremony marking 27 years since the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022(photo credit: NOAM REVKIN FENTON/FLASH90)ByELIAV BREUERUpdated: