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Smotrich vows to build settlements in Gaza and insists on staying in Lebanon and Mount Hermon

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Bezalel Smotrich is Israel's finance minister and leader of the far-right Religious Zionism party, a senior member of the governing coalition. The dispute concerns Israel's military presence along the Lebanese border and in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and annexed in 1981.

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