Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich left for high-level talks in the U.S. on Tuesday, leaving behind a growing coalition crisis with ultra-Orthodox parties who say they have been denied promised 2025 budget allocations.

Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who supports the annexation of the illegally occupied West Bank, said on Tuesday that he was traveling to the US.

Smotrich, an ultranationalist settler whose support is key to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary majority, said he would meet US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, as well as other US go

Far-right finance minister says he'll meet with US officials, including counterpart Scott Bessent, to emphasize 'clear need for American support' in war against terror

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will head to Washington in the coming days to meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and discuss economic and political cooperation, Smotrich’s spokesperson said Thursday.