my guest is simcha rothman, an mp from the far—right religious zionism party, part of israel's rulings next? simcha rothman injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. hi. thank you for having me. it's a pleasure to have you on the show, mr rothman. i want to begin with the limited, fragile deal between the israeli government and hamas, which has enabled some israeli hostages held in gaza to return home.

my guest is simcha rothman, an mp from the far—right religious zionism party, part of israel's rulingn for what comes next?

countries national security minister and a known alter nationalist, each of our bank beer and the religious zionism party. and the head of that party is the country's finance minister bed. so that smelt rich, both of these parties are essentially saying, but they're going to oppose the bill. they're going to vote against it the deal, rather because they say that it harms israel's interest and that the army should continue in its military campaign. and that it quote neglects the other captives currently inside of the gaza strip. now despite all of this, these really governments is said to have the number of votes needed for the deal to go through these really prime minister stressing and his remarks tonight that this will not end of the war and that the fighting will continue. there are several goals that these really military is trying to achieve. among them is bringing back the captives. but right alongside is verification of him us, which he mentioned several times in those remarks. and what about the family is that these randy captives? because we know that continuously criticize the government for no

my guest is simcha rothman, an mp from the far—right religious zionism party, part of israel's rulingoalition. does netanyahu have a viable plan for what comes next? simcha rothman injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. hi. thank you for having me. it's a pleasure to have you on the show, mr rothman. i want to begin with the limited, fragile deal between the israeli government and hamas, which has enabled some israeli hostages held in gaza to return home. and part of the deal is that some palestinians imprisoned in israel have also been returned to their homes. now, as i understand it, you personally opposed the deal, but — because, on the face of it, it's working — do you think you were wrong and that the deal has been a positive? i have to say that it doesn't really matter if i supported it or was against it, because once it's been decided by the government of the state of israel, so, of course, we are all committed — the supporters and the people who were against — to make sure that the state of israel and the people in israel will get the most out of the deal and pay the least of the p

my guest is simcha rothman, an mp from the far—right religious zionism party, part of israel's rulingme to hardtalk. hi. thank you for having me. it's a pleasure to have you on the show, mr rothman. i want to begin with the limited, fragile deal between the israeli government and hamas, which has enabled some israeli hostages held in gaza to return home. and part of the deal is that some palestinians imprisoned in israel have also been returned to their homes.

even the finance minister best and a small rich, a member of the religious zionism party wants to be part of the war cabinet. because he says that the decisions that have been made like allowing this fuel or not reflective of what the government wants. this has been a change and a shift in policy from the israelis who have since the beginning said that there will be no fuel allowed in to gaza. elizabeth? yeah, interesting to see those cracks in the israeli government at this moment. i'm the we've also got time off slices who are battling is riley soldiers and gaza, still firing missiles into israel. us right elizabeth, 42 days later how this is still firing rockets on places in the center of the country like tell a b 3 showing. let's see on whole loan, just to name a few. the iron don't missile defense system intercepting several missiles above tel aviv. we solve those images of the explosions happening in the skies above those cities. but one of the rockets ended up falling in an open area as per the protocol for interception procedures. now we have seen his browser rockets today on

you're talking about the religious zionism party headed by the finance minister best, and it's not rich. and the outs my yahoo dates or jewish power parties, spearheaded by the countries national security minister and known ultra nationalist 8 to more bends. we are now. there were fierce discussions and debate between these 4 right party members, and the war cabinet was leaked to is really media that benny against a member of the country's war cabinet. was calling for unity, saying that this was the right deal for israel at this moment. but what we have learned is that the religious zion isn't party headed by bets and they've smote rich, did vote in fact, to approve this deal. i'm not the only party and members to vote against it, where it's a mark, ben, beer and 2 other parliament members in his party. so at this time, well, there was all of that fierce debate. there were several indications that the the deal would go ahead and pass because it was seen that benjamin netanyahu and his war cabinet had enough votes in the is really government to push it through. but it seems a fierce deba