# Cabinet transfers additional West Bank civilian powers toward Bezalel Smotrich Date: 2023 ## The fact In February 2023 the cabinet approved transferring substantial Civil Administration and settlement-governance powers in the West Bank toward [Bezalel Smotrich](/people/bezalel-smotrich), finance minister and a Religious Zionism leader, under Netanyahu. ## Context COGAT and the defence minister previously held more of the file. Neighbouring coalition swearing-in is the parent. He did not personally rezone every hilltop. 29 December 2022 is the parent coalition. Nation-state 2018 is a different legal text. The Prime Minister of Israel chairs the cabinet, is the political principal of the IDF, and can table Knesset bills. He does not write a Hamas military order, an ICC judgment, a US presidential proclamation, or a UN Security Council resolution. ## Evidence and sources Prime Minister's Office of Israel carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is minority rights and displacement: putting a settlement-movement minister over civilian occupation administration is a dated annexation-adjacent instrument. ## What is established and what is not Established: February 2023 cabinet transfer of additional West Bank civilian powers toward Smotrich, independently reported. Not established: a unique later demolition coefficient from that sitting, or that every settler outpost was thereby legalised that day. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Smotrich received them. The defence ministry still shared the file.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Cabinet transfers additional West Bank civilian powers toward Bezalel Smotrich, not a later speech about Cabinet transfers additional West Bank civilian powers toward Bezalel Smotrich. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Cabinet transfers additional West Bank civilian powers toward Bezalel Smotrich on 2023-02-23 is not a licence to treat every later Prime Minister's Office of Israel communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Cabinet transfers additional West Bank civilian powers toward Bezalel Smotrich into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He chaired the cabinet that transferred the powers. Smotrich received them. The defence ministry still shared the file. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Benjamin Netanyahu: https://factrail.ai/people/benjamin-netanyahu ## Drivers - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights - Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-smotrich-west-bank-powers-2023-02-23/ - https://www.gov.il/en ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/il-smotrich-cao-2023