<p class="content-excerpt">'This takes us back to sights that the brain remembers but the heart wants to forget'</p> <div class="components"> <p>Israel’s prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the terrorist attacks in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning that&nbsp;<a class="link" title="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/1669180831-blast-reported-in-jerusalem-7-wounded" href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/1669180831-blast-reported-in-jerusalem-7-wounded" _mce_href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/1669180831-blast-reported-in-jerusalem-7-wounded">left at least one person dead and 19 more wounded</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p> </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="rtl" lang="iw">בוקר קשה בירושלים.<br>מחזיר אותנו אחורה למראות שהמח זוכר אבל הלב רוצה לשכוח.<br><br>בשעה זו אני מבקש רק לשלוח רפואה שלמה לפצועים וחיזוק וחיבוק גדול לכוחות הביטחון. <a href="https://t.co/mXZNEhGOzL" _mce_href="https://t.co/mXZNEhGOzL">pic.twitter.com/mXZNEhGOzL</a><br _mce_bogus="1"></p> — בצלאל סמוטריץ' (@bezalelsm) <a href="https://twitter.com/bezalelsm/status/1595294989151518720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" _mce_href="https://twitter.com/bezalelsm/status/1595294989151518720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2022</a><br _mce_bogus="1"></blockquote> <mce:script _mce_src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></mce:script> <p></p> <p>Shortly after the explosions, he issued a response saying he is "praying for the health of the injured people, in the coordinated terror attack in Jerusalem this morning and send my support to the security forces who are operating on the ground."</p> <div class="taboola-wrapper"> <div class=" trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_ab_mid-article-thumbnails_abp-mode "></div> </div> <p>Leader of the far-right Religious Zionism party&nbsp;<a class="link" title="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/politics/1669043856-israel-s-smotrich-agrees-to-finance-portfolio-report" href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/politics/1669043856-israel-s-smotrich-agrees-to-finance-portfolio-report" _mce_href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/politics/1669043856-israel-s-smotrich-agrees-to-finance-portfolio-report">Bezalel Smotrich</a>&nbsp;who aimed at taking the post of Israel’s next defense minister in coalition talks with Netanyahu’s Likud party also tweeted his reaction on a “hard morning in Jerusalem.”</p> <p>“This takes us back to sights that the brain remembers but the heart wants to forget. At this time I only ask to send complete healing to the wounded and reinforcement and a big hug to the security forces,” he wrote.</p> </div>