Current sectionIsrael NewsAnalysis Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is focused on tax breaks for Israeli settlers living deep in the West Bank, a Likud MK is arming allies with bribe money and the Knesset speaker is leading an expensive delegation to New YorkShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribe06:39 PM • May 27 2026 IDTThere seems to be no end to the absurd and contemptuous precedents being set by Israel's lawmakers, with the most recent being particularly absurd and full of contempt.CommentsIn the NewsPentagon Leaks Signal U.S. Effort to Blame Israel for Risks of Renewed Iran WarIDF Orders Evacuation of Tyre, Largest City in Lebanon After Beirut7-year-old Allegedly Shot Dead Accidentally by Father in Arab-Israeli TownDefying War, Boycott and Threats of Censorship, Docaviv 2026 to Open in Tel AvivSaudi Arabia, Qatar Hesitant About Joining Abraham Accords, Gulf Sources SayRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIFreed Gaza Flotilla Activists Report Sexual Abuse, Rape in Israeli CustodyFormer Israeli Soldier Dies by Suicide in Miami at Age 23'It Was Okay to Be Crazy': IDF Soldiers Discuss Moral Decay in LebanonNetanyahu's Promises of Victory in Iran End in a Glorious U.S. CapitulationWill Trump Forgive Netanyahu Over Iran? The Emerging Deal Suggests NotOn Israel, Gaza and Palestine, Bigmouth Tucker Carlson Spoke Nothing but Truth