The chairman of the Pensioners Party's Knesset faction ("Gil"), MK Yitzchak Galanti, accused the faction's three breakaway MKs Sunday of "political prostitution," as well as "Ceaucescu and Caligula-like megalomania" and "endangering the country's security."

The three renegade MKs – Moshe Sharoni, Elchanan Glazer and Sarah Marom-Shalev – have filed a request to form a new faction named "Justice for the Pensioners."
 
In a letter to the Knesset's House Committee, Galanti claimed that the agreement between billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak and the three MKs proved that "Sharoni's personal benefit precedes any other social criterion and that this was all he cared about in the Gil faction since he was elected to this Knesset." Galanti went on to say that Sharoni began "recklessly undermining Gil's ministerial seats" when he was unable to get a ministerial post himself.