Ex-Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon commented that "the incumbent leadership busies itself with small political divisiveness - once against the Arabs, once against the leftists, once against the LGBT, and now against the Ashkenazim."

"I know these politics of incitement - it's how they try to win votes. It's a leadership that is so sure of itselve, that it isn't concerned with the media," Yaalon bitterly comments at Bar Ilan University.