'Desecrating religious Zionism': Bennett slams Smotrich as true architect of draft evasion law
"I want to address the soldiers and tell them: Hold on tight, there are still 104 days of plunder and evasion, the reinforcements are on the way, and this terrible government is going," he said
Assessment
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett directly attacks Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich over a law Bennett frames as enabling draft evasion, accusing Smotrich of betraying religious Zionism. The remark signals deepening intra-coalition warfare within the right, with Bennett positioning himself as a defender of military service against what he calls a plundering government. The 104-day countdown suggests Bennett expects a political shift, though the mechanism for that change remains unspecified.