Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef commented in his weekly sermon on Shas ministers and said: "Former housing and construction ministers did nothing... while our minister worked day and night to build houses."
Yosef also commented on the calls to recruit haredim for IDF service: "Unfortunately ... they think badly of us. The call to cancel the service exemptions and take the Torah away from the people of Israel." (Akiva Novick)