The surprising people who brought Smotrich to the position of Minister of Finance Israel today. A surprising initiative by senior finance officials led last year to the appointment.

What began as a honeymoon, under the auspices of the legal reform and budgets for ultra-Orthodox education, turned into a high-profile campaign. Also: this is how the prophecies of anger were falsified . It was an extremely unusual turn. After four election campaigns, three years of political upheaval and two collapsed governments, in the fall of 2022 Binyamin Netanyahu won the absolute victory in the elections.