-- Minister of Interior Moshe Arbel responding to the attack on Arbel by MK Michal Waldiger for insisting on holding the municipal elections at the end of January during a war and not agreeing to postpone it. Smotritch served an abbreviated army service at age 28.

Arbel is cute and that's a wicked troll but the story isnt Smotritch. Smotritch has a valid complaint that many of the candidates in the upcoming municipal elections, along with staff and campaigners and whatnot, are serving in miluim now and unable to campaign for the elections.