Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said he believes E1 plan will ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’

The far-right minister said he will approve 3,000 new homes in the E1 area project, hailing it as ‘Zionism at its best’.

“This reality finally buries the idea of a Palestinian state, because there is nothing to recognize and no one to recognize," Bezalel Smotrich said.