Smotrich, this is not Eurovision - put the anti-Semitic card back in your pocket - voila! Of money. The bizarre response of the failed finance minister ignores the fact that the rating companies gave Israel a grace year in which they warned, explained, directed and asked, and he continued to ignore it with smugness and detachment.

I think that if in the second intifada, when we were much much worse, there is no reason to lower Israel's rating now.