National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir commented on Facebook about the shooting in the Jordan Valley: "I cannot say what is being done in the confidential meetings led by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Toppling or leaving the government is not an option - flawed as it is, it is many times better than its predecessor. We are doing a lot, but change will not happen in a day, certainly not against years of worldview. Still, we promised a genuine right-wing government, and I will work as hard as I can to deliver it."
Opposition leader Yair Lapid denounced the statement:
"On this sad day, a few hours after the murder of two young sisters, the Minister of Tiktok Affairs Ben-Gvir chooses to publish a wretched and whiny post in which he is only running away from responsibility and looking for culprits for the failures he signed. I don't want to think what he would say about this failed government if he was in the opposition. My heart goes out to the family who lost their two daughters. There is no comfort. Shabbat Shalom."
National Unity leader Benny Gantz criticized Ben-Gvir as well:
"Minister Ben Gabir's statement is a complete loss of temper. There has never been a cabinet minister who talked so much about security and understood so little. There has never been a minister in the cabinet who, while rockets are being fired at our citizens and our daughters are being murdered on the roads, chooses to sabotage the cohesion of Israeli society and undermine deterrence. Netanyahu should condemn his statement and fire him."
Minister Ben-Gvir retorted: "Hey Mr. Gantz - On the one hand, you would still host the terrorist Abu Mazen in your home. On the other hand, to give him half a billion as a reward for the salaries of terrorists, and to open security barriers as a reward for terrorism - you cannot do that any longer. Nor to surrender in Lebanon. On your watch, terrorism jumped by hundreds of percent per year. How can a unfaithful person like you still give advice?"