Blue and White Knesset members Zvi Hauser and Yoaz Hendel have been encouraged to break from their party and join the Likud. The two have registered their reluctance to join a minority government backed by the anti-Zionist Joint List Arab party after the leaders of Blue and White have been courting the anti-Zionists, some of whom are terrorist sympathizers. Mayor of Ma'aleh Adumim and Likud member Benny Kashriel has implored the two to break ranks in a letter siting "the historic opportunity to extend Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria thanks to a sympathetic President Trump."