Minister Smotrich in a statement on Judea and Samaria (Knesset Channel)
Against the background of the tensions in the coalition surrounding the evacuation of the illegal outpost in Samaria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today with Defense Minister Yoav Galant, and with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotritz, who also serves as a minister in the Ministry of Defense, and the three discussed the distribution of powers between the two and the regulation of joint work in the Ministry of Defense.
At the end of the week, a power struggle broke out between Gallant and Smotrich, after the head of religious Zionism tried to use his powers over the government's operations coordination system in the territories, to stop the evacuation of the outpost established in memory of Rabbi Druckman, and Gallant ordered the IDF to evacuate it in accordance with the law.
Smotrich claimed that this was a violation of the coalition agreements, and demanded that the Prime Minister intervene in the division of powers between him and Galant, and the religious Zionist ministers boycotted the weekly cabinet meeting yesterday in protest.
Today Netanyahu met with both of them to discuss the division of powers.
The meeting was interrupted because of the votes in the Knesset and more meetings are expected later.
Yoav Galant and Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
According to the coalition agreements, Smotrich is supposed to receive the powers over the Palestinian Authority and the Civil Administration, but in practice the transfer of powers has not yet been settled. Smotrich claimed that the evacuation was not coordinated and this is a violation of the agreements. However, according to the Smotrich Law, which regulated the minister's powers in the ministry Security, in any case of disagreement between the Minister of Defense and the Minister in the Ministry - the authority of the Minister of Defense will increase, and so it was.
The dispute between the two ministers was partly due to the fact that this is a new outpost whose evacuation does not require the approval of the political echelon but only of the military sovereign, so Smutritz's appeal The coordinator of operations in the territories could not have stopped the evacuation in any case.
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