A senior Likud official addressed the recent disputes which have arisen within the coalition and dismissed them as small disputes that will not affect the coalition’s ability to function or live out its full four-year term.
”These are small financial differences that will be resolved in the next two days,” the official said. “All parties have made it clear that they do not intend to dismantle the right-wing government.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the coalition’s difficulties and wrote on his Twitter account: “We have established a strong right-wing government and it will live out its days.”
Earlier today (Tuesday), Minister Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) resigned his position as the minister overseeing the annual Lag B’Omer celebrations in Meron. The Otzma Yehudit and United Torah Judaism factions boycotted a debate in the Knesset yesterday. The haredi party boycotted the debate in protest against the State budget passed last Friday, which the party says does not fulfill the financial obligations which were agreed upon in the coalition agreement with the Likud party. The Otzma Yehudit party boycotted the debate in protest against the government’s performance in the face of the recent wave of terrorism in which 14 Israelis have been murdered.
Yesterday (Monday), Noam party chairman MK Avi Maoz announced his resignation from his position as deputy minister in the Prime Minister”s Office in protest against the government’s failure to fulfil the conditions of the coalition agreement between the Noam and Likud parties.

Natan Eshel, an associate of Prime Minister Netanyahu, yesterday called on journalists to ask opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz whether a compromise on the government’s proposed judicial reforms would bring them into the Netanyahu government.
“I’m not suggesting, I’m just asking, and it’s a shame that the media doesn’t ask them, will an agreed compromise get you into the Netanyahu government?” Eshel wrote.
The Likud responded: “Natan Eshel’s words do not represent Prime Minister Netanyahu and are not his opinion. Prime Minister Netanyahu is committed to a right-wing government exactly in its current composition.”