Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party responded on Sunday afternoon to the release of activists Eldad Yaniv and Meni Naftali, who were arrested Saturday night during a demonstration outside the Petach Tikva police station, calling for the expediting of corruption investigations against the prime minister..
"The fact that Naftali and Eldad Yaniv are ostensibly demonstrating for the rule of law is a bad joke." Dwelling at length on accusadions against Naftali, a party statement continued, "Their demonstration was not meant for the rule of law, but for the sake of bending the rule of law, in order to exert political pressure on the attorney general to prosecute the prime minister at any cost - in order to topple the Likud government."