Zvika Mor, father of former hostage Eitan Mor, will join Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s far-right Religious Zionism party and be placed in a high position on its electoral slate, the party announced Tuesday.

Mor, a member of the Religious Zionist community and resident of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, declared his intention to enter politics in March.

Eitan Mor, 23 when taken hostage on October 7, 2023, was a security guard at the Supernova desert party, where Hamas terrorists carried out a massacre, killing 344 partygoers and kidnapping dozens.

In the wake of his abduction, his father co-founded and led the Tikva Forum, a small group of hostage families who — unlike members of the larger Hostages and Missing Families Forum — consistently opposed partial hostage release agreements with Hamas that involved the release of Palestinian security prisoners and temporary ceasefires in Gaza.

Smotrich repeatedly opposed hostage deals and, on multiple occasions, threatened to quit the government over proposed agreements.

In an interview shortly before his son’s........

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