"The citizens of Israel will not accept the attempt to steal democracy from them," Benny Gantz, chairman of Blue and White, said Monday afternoon at the start of the faction meeting, announcing that the faction would oppose the Knesset's dissolution.

"Netanyahu is the only obstacle to the establishment of a national consensus government that will look after the citizens of Israel," Gantz said. "The silence of the sheep in the Likud is embarrassing," he said, adding, "Elections right now are misleading the citizens of Israel."