Smotrich, the father of the damage

Amichai Attali blames Bezalel Smotrich and Benjamin Netanyahu for the emerging election results, arguing they forced the public into a binary choice between supporting Haredi draft evasion and supporting Netanyahu. He says Smotrich chose Bibism over rightism and evasion over Zionism, and calls Netanyahu the top official responsible for the greatest massacre ever visited on us.

Amichai Attali blames Bezalel Smotrich and Benjamin Netanyahu for the responsibility for the emerging election results. According to him, Smotrich chose Bibism over rightism and draft evasion over Zionism, and placed the public before a binary choice between supporting the continuation of mass Haredi draft evasion and the funding of the Haredi sector, and supporting Netanyahu, whom he calls 'the top official responsible for the greatest massacre ever visited on us,' who never took responsibility. Attali argues that the public, which has become very right-wing, was not prepared to accept these bad alternatives, and that the entire responsibility lies with Smotrich and Netanyahu. The column is published against the backdrop of the 2026 elections.