Former Minister Naftali Bennett referred to contacts with Right-leaning parties and said during a live broadcast on Facebook that "Ayelet believed that we should go for a great technical union. She believes that a large bloc will bring about an uplift in the Right's morale.
"So we sat for a long time and in the end we adopted Ayelet's approach. We decided to unite all parties of the Right-leaning coalition and also Feiglin under one big umbrella and then there will be a Likud and a Right-leaning bloc.
He added, "During the past week I've been in contact with Smotrich and Rafi; there are delays on their side that dragged on a bit. Today at seven in the evening I'll meet Rabbi Rafi. I intend to close, and then I'll try to bring Zehut into the group so it will be one big party."