Edelstein is one of the Likud members who is considered a possible successor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his comment seemed to be a call on the party to choose a new leader.
According to the report, Yesh Atid's joining the government would not entail removing other parties from the government but would entail a redistribution of the government ministries.
The Likud accused Lapid of "pushing for an immediate end to the war without achieving total victory" in a Wednesday evening statement.
The government has missed deadlines for the new 2024 budget proposal, in violation of Basic Law.
"The time has come to establish an alternative organization that will not educate generations of Palestinian children in hatred and will not cooperate with Hamas terrorism," Yair Lapid said.
Protests are intensifying and politicians are plotting. With heat rising, the ‘Magazine’ presents scenarios for the political day after.
From 'fascists' to 'lily-livered leftists': President Herzog calls for Israelis to "know not only how to fight together, not just to die together, but how to live together, to build together."
Netanyahu reiterates commitment to defeat Hamas amid ceasefire talks • Yair Lapid to Knesset: What is there to celebrate?
This vote symbolically marked the moment when politics fully reemerged in the Knesset amid the ongoing fighting.
If elections were held today, the Likud Party would win only 16 seats, losing ground to Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party with 37 seats, a new Channel 13 poll showed yesterday.