The Likud responded to Gantz's remarks, which slammed Prime Minister Netanyahu and said, "Whoever dives in the polls makes up an alliance with Tibi."

"Lapid and Gantz have no government without a blocking bloc of the Arab parties.Ofer Shelah admitted that they would form a blocking bloc with the Arab parties, Michael Biton said that they were sitting with them in the government, and Gantz rejected a meeting with Netanyahu, so it's a simple calculation: Bibi or Tibi. That's what the elections come down to."