The Yisrael Beytenu party accused the Jewish Home party of launching a campaign of slander against the former's party chairman, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman.
"We regret that in the midst of combat, when the defense minister is working to restore peace and quiet, the education minister (Naftali Bennett) and his party (Jewish Home) launched an election campaign within a political campaign to slander the chief of staff and the defense establishment," Yisrael Beytenu said in a statement.
Earlier, the Jewish Home party accused Liberman of being a "weak" defense minister and implicitly accused him of leaking a conversation in the Cabinet on Sunday between Bennett and IDF Chief of Staff, Gadi Eizenkot.