The post Smotrich: If Netanyahu agrees to a ceasefire, I will resign from the government appeared first on The Times of Israel. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told families of Israeli hostages that he would resign from the government if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approves a ceasefire deal with Hamas, Channel 12 reports.

September 8 is the day hearings in the prime minister’s criminal trial are set to resume, after courts broke for the summer recess. The state prosecution in the criminal trial cases of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposed allowing his defense attorney,

Some members of Israel’s coalition have ruled out a proposed hostage deal with Hamas, but the prime minister has yet to state his position.

Two judges and two prosecutors at the ICC were sanctioned, as Washington kept up its pressure on the war tribunal over its targeting of Israeli leaders.

The path for Anthony Albanese to make amends with Netanyahu has been laid out by senior Jewish Liberal MP Julian Leeser, after Albanese was called a “weak man” by Israel’s Prime Minister.

Australia criticised Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday after he said the country's prime minister

Criticism by home affairs minister comes after Israeli prime minister’s office calls Anthony Albanese a ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel’ - Anadolu Ajansı

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared he treats leaders of other countries with respect, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him “weak”.