Prime Minister and Likud Chairman Netanyahu: "I respect and appreciate Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein. His initiative seeks to prevent another round of elections in Israel. The Knesset Speaker asked us to meet in the coming days and I will do so.
"All the rest is spin. At no point has a rotation been offered, until this moment there is no contact between Likud and Blue and White, and I have no intention of giving up my natural partners in a right-leaning government."