In a post on Twitter, MK Shlomo Karhi (Likud) responded to MK Elazar Stern's (Blue & White) comments that "if it should be that there are dead soldiers there should also be dead soldiers from the haredi community", writing:
"As someone who served in the Haredi Battalion of the Nahal Brigade, the false statement of MK Elazar Stern made me shudder. A member of religious Zionism separates blood from blood, brother from brother, and by implication calls for their death. Repeat. Surely that was not what you meant, certainly a few hours before this holy day. The pain of today is of one nation, it is the same pain."