Smutrich attacks the PM: "We did not want us in the coalition"

• Bezalel Smutrich, this week

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  Oren Cohen

After Sunday's government was sworn in and the right-wing party ended the public debate with Netanyahu in opposition, outgoing Transport Minister Bezalel Smutrich attacks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and accuses him of not wanting them with the coalition.

In an interview with "Sitting" magazine to be published on Friday, Smutrich says: "I agree with the decision to go to the opposition, it is a right decision. Never opened it. "

According to Smutrich, "This is Netanyahu's attitude to religious Zionism. He dismissed Elkin from his position at the Ministry of the Environment and built him a case for nothing and nothing, and Tzipi Hotobelli appointed Minister for Nothing and Nothing and it is also temporary until he sends her on an overseas mission. "

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Smutrich argues that "we did not ask Netanyahu for any political price he could not pay, the health care no one demanded, Edelstein there although he did not ask, he tried to sell the health to blue and white and did not succeed. On the last day, he was barely able to convince Miri Regev to take the transport ministry.

Smutrich respects Peretz who defected from the party and joined Netanyahu, but says explicitly: "No one thinks that in the next term, the Jewish House led by Rabbi Rafi Peretz will run alone and they will pass the blockade. Unfortunately, he is burying a party of a hundred years."

He adds: "I have known Rabbi Rafi for a year, need to tell the truth, there is not one political mistake he did not make in the last year. I want to honor him. In the end he is a rabbi, educated a lot of students, did good things, but he is not fit for politics. ".