 He had also announced that he'd cut off Palestinian banks from their Israeli counterparts by July 1st. He also cancelled that. Smotrich is a far-right Jewish West Bank settler who vehemently opposes a Palestinian state. Many of the 500 Israeli settlers living in the occupied West Bank see the region, which they call Judea and Samaria, as the biblical heartland of their country. For years, the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, which was established in the early 90s,