{"id":477866,"date":"2026-06-05T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/477866\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:21:11","slug":"israeli-mks-itamar-ben-gvir-bezalel-smotrich-banned-from-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/477866\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli MKs Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich banned from Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich<\/a> were banned from traveling to Ireland, Irish media reported on Friday.<\/p>\n

Reports cited Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin, who told reporters that he had heard from Ireland’s Justice Ministry that Ben-Gvir and Smotrich had been banned.<\/p>\n

\u201cMinister for Justice Jim O\u2019Callaghan, [it] is my understanding, has instructed his officials to prohibit any travel into Ireland [for] both minister Ben-Gvir and minister Smotrich,\u201d said Martin.<\/p>\n

Reports further cited a spokesperson for O\u2019Callaghan as concurring with Martin’s statements, noting that Martin described the Israeli MKs’ behavior as amounting to a “desire to see the elimination of Palestinians from Palestine<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“In my view, their behavior justifies sanctions at the EU level as well, and that\u2019s something that we will raise,” added Martin. “Now, whether we can get sufficient support across the European Union is a different matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir harassed detained activists<\/a> from a Gaza-bound flotilla on May 20, himself sharing a video of the incident and causing a diplomatic storm for Israel.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> called Ben-Gvir’s actions unacceptable, saying his actions were “not in line with Israel\u2019s values and norms.”<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused Ben-Gvir of damaging Israel’s reputation, stating that the far-right MK is “not the face of Israel.”<\/p>\n

“You knowingly caused harm to our State in this disgraceful display – and not for the first time, “said Sa’ar. “You have undone tremendous, professional, and successful efforts made by so many people – from IDF soldiers to Foreign Ministry staff and many others.”<\/p>\n

Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter further condemned Ben-Gvir’s actions, accusing the MK of “reckless grandstanding.”<\/p>\n

“I am Israel\u2019s top diplomat in the US, at the heart of our most important alliance,” said Leiter. “Ben Gvir\u2019s antics take a sledgehammer to our diplomatic efforts while Israel\u2019s enemies gleefully jump on every unfortunate nonsense to discredit and demonize.”<\/p>\n

Corinne Baum and Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich were banned from traveling to Ireland, Irish media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1982,63,1685,42,12110,46,837,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-477866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-headlines","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}