Smotrich in a message to the US: "We will enter Rafah and dismantle Hamas, there is no other way" "To come and say don't interfere between politics and the budget is to throw democracy in the trash," says Smotrich. "We are in an existential war, which started with a disaster," says the Minister of Finance.

On the conscription law: 'We need everyone under the stretcher' "I don't think there has been a finance minister who passed four budgets a year, two of them during wartime," he says.