Israel suffers from a leadership of deflection and evasion - opinion

A national reset will not happen while Yoav Kisch lectures hostage families, Bezalel Smotrich berates the IDF, and Benjamin Netanyahu clings to power through blame.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset plenum: Israel needs a national reset, but that will not happen while Smotrich berates the IDF and Netanyahu clings to power through blame, the writer argues.

(photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ByYAAKOV KATZ

APRIL 25, 2025 13:42

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