Former Finance Minister MK Israel Katz of the Likud responded to the approval of the state budget in the Knesset.
''Mansour Abbas, the head of the political wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood spokesman and the equivalent of Ismail Haniya in Gaza, took advantage of the hatred and division among the Jews and conquered the Israeli government without a fight. Everyone boasts of victories and he grins and rules all," said Katz.