Member of Knesset Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) told President Shimon Peres on Wednesday that his party received instructions from their rabbi to quit the government if the compromises suggested to the conversion bill and the citizenship bill put forth by MK David Rotem (Yisrael Beiteinu) are not accepted. Gafni, who was present in a meeting between the president and Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman, asked Peres to try and solve the crisis. Peres requested that Rabbi Steinman try to prevent the party’s resignation from the coalition.