Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli said at the beginning of her party's meeting that "what is happening in the last day is a political protection payment. We pay more than NIS 12 billion that Netanyahu and the Likud are investing in building a Halachic state instead of the State of Israel."
"Instead of budgeting for the collapsing education system, NIS 2.5 billion will go to yeshivas and instead of giving to women who experience violence and to prevent murder, six million NIS will go to the 'purity of the family'." According to her, "what hurts Israeli society is simply not of interest to the government, its intentions are revealed in the budget. This is a government with which it is forbidden to talk and compromise."