Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich dismisses the army’s internal investigation into its handling of the fighting at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, arguing that such probes “are a grave mistake by the chief of staff.”

“The Israel Defense Forces and those at its head should be concerned with only one thing and that is to win the war,” the far-right minister tells reporters ahead of his Religious Zionism party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset. (…)