Yamina Chair Naftali Bennett on Sunday in a Facebook post attacked the prime minister's management of the "Guardian of the Walls" campaign against Hamas.
"During the fighting I avoided expressing myself against the government and giving advice in the studios and on Facebook while soldiers and police officers were risking their lives on the ground.
"Hamas and the critics of Israel in the West played against an open goal in the field of public relations, and I joined up to contribute, even a little, on this front.
"With the end of the fighting, when it's clear that there's still more to be done, and that the fronts are still not quiet - not in Gaza, not in Jerusalem and not within Israel, I want to share with you the way I see things.
"I do not remember such a period of weakness, lack of functioning and national embarrassment. Apparently, there's nothing to be surprised about. The writing was on the wall.
"For a whole year, during the epidemic, we looked on with disappointment and cried out against a government that simply didn't function.
"Not in the field of crisis management, not in the field of education.
"The same symptoms that we preferred to repress and forget: Netanyahu appoints mediocre people, who in turn appoint mediocre people. A crooked decision making process dictated by personal and political considerations. And all this while creating a smokescreen of cult of personality for a leader, whereby anyone who dares to criticize him is severely attacked.
"In recent weeks and days, there is no citizen who does not feel helpless in the presence of the state's condition. Shooting by terrorists on residents of Lod, Acre, Beer Sheva and the Galilee. Humiliated police officers on the Temple Mount, Hamas victory celebrations in Gaza and inside the cities of Israel
"Even Netanyahu's most ardent supporters are beginning to understand that admiration of the leader at all costs is not a substitute for policy, that their and their family's personal security has deteriorated to an unbearable level. That the state's deterrence - against a terrorist group in Gaza and against armed gangs within Israel - is at the lowest point in its history.
"In the government sit ministers who are busy day and night in politics, and run away in the difficult moments. All the authority, with zero responsibility. Including after the chaotic disaster in Meron. It's a government that is busy day and night patting itself on the back, and blaming the failures on the people they themselves appointed to positions. The logic that guides it is rejecting the treatment of the problem, every problem, until the moment when it explodes in our faces.
"This is how, from year to year, from Hudna to ceasefire, dealing with Hamas and Hezbollah, which turned from terrorist organizations into real armies, with an array of rockets of 150 thousand killing instruments aimed at every city in Israel, was postponed.
"It's not a coincidence that our enemies raise their heads now. Our inner division and self destruction weaken us. When the enemy recognizes weakness, he attacks.
"We find ourselves after two and a half years of endless elections, without any purpose. Even at this moment, there is no budget for the state of Israel. Politicians are playing it safe, living from survey to survey and refusing to understand that this is a time of emergency.
"But it's not just the politicians. Parts of the public have also become addicted to the sectoral approach, of us and them. I persist in reminding us all who the real enemy is. The enemy is not Bibi, it is not the Left. The enemy is Hamas that strives to destroy us.
"This is not the time to adhere to boycotts, this is the time to do the required thing and create a functioning government."
Bennett added that "There are two choices - enlisting or deepening the crisis."
"Whoever drags the country to a fifth election, to more poison and hatred, to another year of state dysfunction, to a huge waste of money - plays into the hands of those who do not want what is good for us.
"That would be one mistake too many.
"Now is the time for each and every one of us to make an effort, to enlist. Even today, there are a number of options to form a government, if only we remove the boycotts and understand the greatness of the hour.
"Politicians won't come to their senses until the citizens force them to come to their senses. Now is the time to build and repair, not to deepen the rift."