Lapid argued that the decision was discriminatory against the Druze • "Artificial intelligence should replace your entire government," he told Netanyahu
At the beginning of the interview, the outspoken Otzma Yehudit MK said: “I made a mistake, my demeanor was inappropriate.”
The Movement for the Quality of Government protested Cohen's remarks made against fellow MKs in the Knesset plenum.
"Who said these things about Smotrich and his wife?" MK Ahmad Tibi rhetorically asked the Knesset before reading a 2016 post from Likud MK Tali Gottleib.
Tibi reached an agreement with Likud soon after the elections that he would give up one of Hadash-Ta'al's seats in the Knesset Finance Committee for a deputy speaker role.