Chairman Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party said, Friday, that he was not going to "be ensnared discourse of hatred and anger," after he was criticized by Co-Chairman Aryeh Der'i of the Sephardic-hareidi Shas party for saying that being photographed in a cabinet with hareidi-religious ministers would spell the end of his political career.

Writing on his Facebook page, Lapid prefaced the promise by saying he had been given "Din Rodef", a status in Jewish law in which he is being viewed as a threat, and closed the posting by wishing everybody Shabbat Shalom (a peaceful Sabbath).