Overview

• MK Gilad Kariv sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich alone stopped PA tax-clearing transfers since May, withholding over one billion shekels without cabinet or security input.
• Kariv warned that undermining Palestinian Authority finances risks collapse of the PA and a sharp rise in West Bank terror activity, posing a serious national-security threat.
• Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett accused Prime Minister Netanyahu and his ministers of running a campaign to humiliate IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir after he ordered the mobilization of tens of thousands of Haredi reservists.
• Bennett said government figures have labeled Zamir “weak” and “leftist” and leaked insulting remarks to the media as part of the effort to discredit him.
• Tensions in the ruling Likud party flared when activists booed MK Tali Gottlieb at a central conference after she opposed a guaranteed Knesset list slot for Gideon Sa’ar.