Health Minister Yaakov Litzman who resigned from the government Sunday over the railway work being performed on Shabbat said in an Arutz Sheva interview that "I am disappointed at myself that I didn't succeed in preventing Shabbat desecration. I will return to the government if the Shabbat desecrations cease."
At a Likud ministers meeting, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that he would hold the health portfolio at the present time in order to facilitate the return of Litzman to the government.