Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, attacked former Prime Minister Yair Lapid in an interview with Channel 13 News on Saturday night.
"To be honest, the Prime Minister's office has been less in direct contact with me in the past year. I was informed, based on publications, that former Prime Minister Lapid wrote letters to heads of state. It was his decision."
Lapid's office refused to comment on the matter.
The interview with Erdan took place in the wake of the approval of an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations.
The resolution, which was approved late on Friday by a majority of 87 to 26, calls on the International Court of Justice to give an opinion regarding the legal consequences of the Israeli "occupation" of Judea and Samaria.
Erdan said ahead of Friday’s vote, "The outrageous resolution calling for the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice is a moral stain on the UN and every country that supports it. No international body can decide that the Jewish people are ‘occupiers’ in their own homeland. Any decision from a judicial body which receives its mandate from the morally bankrupt and politicized UN is completely illegitimate.”
“The Palestinians have rejected every peace initiative, while supporting and inciting terror. Instead of pushing the Palestinians to change, the UN is doing the opposite: helping them to harm the only vibrant democracy in the Middle East which recently signed 4 peace agreements with Arab countries. We will not take part in this disgraceful show of lies," he added.
Ambassador Erdan continued, "The decision to hold a vote that deals with Israel on Shabbat is another example of the moral decay of the UN, which prevents Israel's position from being heard in a vote whose results are predetermined."