When he was in the premiership, former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu also used the phrase West Bank.
Ayelet Shaked, former Minister of Justice and head of the New Right party and Former Israeli Minister of Education and member of the New Right party Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference in Efrat, in the West Bank, July 22, 2019
(photo credit: GERSHON ELINSON/FLASH90)
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett pushed back on Monday night against those who claimed his English use of the phrase “West Bank” is part of a larger ideological shift from the Right to the Left.
“The correct phrase is definitively Judea and Samaria,” he told Channel 13, in one of a series of interviews Bennett has given to defend his record and that of his government, amid speculation that the country might be heading to a new election.







