Transportation Minister Miri Regev said at a Likud event in Yeruham that Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Boaz Bismuth, who is advancing the ultra-Orthodox draft exemption law, "is sitting and taking hits even from the coalition for a law in which ultra-Orthodox will enlist and carry the stretcher for the first time." Regarding elections, she claimed that "Benjamin Netanyahu will be the next prime minister. He requested a pardon not because he doesn't know he would be acquitted in trial but because he understood there is no other way to free Israeli society from a trial that should never have begun."