In a statement MK Yair Lapid (Blue & White) called on Netanyahu to resign.

"It is not possible that anyone responsible for our children's education system can be charged with serious criminal offenses. It is not possible that anyone who is supposed to protect the legal system from foreign considerations will blame the legal system for foreign considerations. In particular, he may be dragging an entire country into a dangerous spin that will end in unprecedented violence and internal crisis, "Lapid said.

Until recent years, Benyamin Netanyahu has spent most of his life strengthening the State of Israel. If he still cares for her, he has to do one more thing for her: resign, "MK Lapid argued.