Former chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon criticized MKs Hauser and Hendel for bringing about an end to the Blue and White union with Telem and Yesh Atid and thwarting the establishment of a minority government with supported by the Joint Arab List.

"I was expecting them to allow us to use the Joint List's vote to remove...Netanyahu. Saving a fellow Jew's life overrides the Sabbath" Ya'alon told Channel 12, invoking a quote a halackic statute.