A source in the Likud has responded to a story on Channel 12 Television that a close associate of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked the owners of the Walla website to publish an article denouncing the father of Minister Naftali Bennett.

The source said, "Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not know the correspondence in Bennett's case that was published yesterday on News 12. Netanyahu is not acting against Minister Bennett and he sees him as a partner in the next national government which he will establish."