Apparently he bucks the trend of israeli politicians adopting Hebrew-sounding names. 'Smotrich' is based on a town where he says his family came from in... Ukraine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezalel_Smotrich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smotrych,_Khmelnytskyi_Oblast

Out of interest I looked up the WW2 history, and these pages listed a few massacres of Jews in the town and nearby, accusing the Germans:

https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14621914
https://www.yahadmap.org/en/#village/smotrych-smotrich-khmelnytskyi-ukraine.274

However I found this interesting paper which examines the evidence of pogrom-type massacres of Jews by the OUN, ie: the Banderite Ukrainian nationalists:

https://gce.unisg.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/HSG_ROOT/Institut_GCE/Euxeinos/27/Usach_Euxeinos_27_2019.pdf

The way the crimes are described are very similar to the massacres in the other article - Jewish inhabitants rounded up, taken to the river and shot or drowned. So it's not clear whether the first 2 articles are wrongly (or dishonestly) blaming nazi soldiers, or if they repeated similar crimes after the OUN perpetrated them shortly after the start of the nazi invasion.

Seems that the OUN perceived Jews as supportive of bolshevism and Moscow-based 'imperialism' and that they should be targeted as a group because of that alleged collective guilt. Around 100 were killed in the Smotrich river, after being forced to 'graze' like cattle on the bank. They repeated this with another 50 or so Jews in the nearby town of Kupyn. Apparently it harkens back to forced baptisms or the punishment for refusing, and common enough that 'the expression “to the river” was increasingly understood by the Jews as the threat of imminent death' (p.80). And getting them to graze like cattle, well:

'Such attempts to humiliate victims as much as possible and to dehumanize them to animals were fully in line with the position of the perpetrators as they could regard their actions as a sort of "revenge" for their own suffering, real or alleged, from the Soviet regime that was associated with the Jews.' - ibid. p.80

Remind you of anything?

Presumably using the name 'Smotrich' is this person's claim to a memory of family suffering in the 'old country' which has now been transcended by participating in the wonderful state of israel. Yet this sociopath is acting exactly like the fascists, nationalist fanatics and other murdering psychos who his family allegedly fled from, and he either doesn't see it, or feels it is justified against the 'human animals' that are the Palestinian Arabs. People like this are incredibly dangerous, substantially moreso when their malevolence is harnessed by state forces to inflict yet more unimaginable trauma on a captive population, 50% of whom are children. It's not going to end well, to put it mildly...

cheers,
I