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Bezalel Smotrich

بتسلئيل سموتريتش בצלאל סמוטריץ
Minister In government Verified

Finance Minister and leader of Religious Zionism in the 25th Knesset coalition. Also holds responsibility for the West Bank administration.

Country
Israel
Party
Religious Zionism Party
Role
Minister

Individual position

Scored from Bezalel Smotrich's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. The overlay shows Religious Zionism Party's profile for comparison. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.

Bezalel Smotrich's spider profile vs. Religious Zionism Party
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press
Bezalel Smotrich Religious Zionism Party
Axis scores
Economic —
Social -6.0
State & religion -6.0
Liberal democracy -5.0
West alignment —
Regional stance —
Palestinian question -9.0
Civil liberties —
Regime stance —
Centralism vs federalism —
Traditionalism vs modernization —
Gender equality —
Iran posture —
Press freedom —

Briefs about Religious Zionism Party

Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Religious Zionism Party to other parties. 1 brief on file.

Other politicians in Religious Zionism Party

Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →

On the record

Quotes attributed to Bezalel Smotrich that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • There will be no Palestinian state, and there is no place for a Palestinian state — neither west nor east of the Jordan.
    לא תהיה מדינה פלסטינית, ואין מקום למדינה פלסטינית — לא ממערב לירדן ולא ממזרחו.
    2024 2024 declaration during the post-October-7 Gaza war, rejecting Western and Saudi proposals for a two-state framework as a post-war horizon. en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Bezalel Smotrich [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/smotrich
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Bezalel Smotrich." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/smotrich.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-smotrich,
  title     = {{Bezalel Smotrich}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/smotrich},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.