Betzalel was elected to the Knesset in 2022 and was appointed in February 2023 as the chair of a special committee in the Knesset called Bridging Social Gaps in the Periphery. In January 2025 he was one of eight members of the
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to call on Defense Minister
Israel Katz to order the IDF to destroy all water, food and energy sources in the Gaza Strip. He resigned from the Knesset in July 2025 and was replaced as head of the committee in August 2025 by
Michael Malchieli. == External links ==