In a post on Twitter, MK Stav Shafir attacked the idea of Betzalel Smotrich being Education Minister saying:
"Panic gripped the right-wing spokesmen who send daily intimidation: "The left will re-educate!" The truth is the opposite. For years the right has been re-educating Israel's children. Not in the spirit of Herzl and Ben-Gurion, but in the spirit of Smotrich: messianic nationalism, racism, and politicization in school, culture and the media, they did not succeed: the public wants change."