In the middle of the war: Smotrich vetoes the purchase of two fighter squadrons - voila! Of money. "A war with iron swords undermines many basic assumptions in the concept of security," the Minister of Finance wrote to Netanyahu.

"The desire to continue doing the same thing over and over without learning from past mistakes will bring us disaster," he said. "If the Ministry of Defense had not acted against it, the committee should already be close to its conclusions," he added.