Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman dismissed the new government as "another government of [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and his religious-messianic bloc."
"I welcome the establishment of the government, although it is not a unity government," Liberman said.
"This is another government of Netanyahu and the Haredi-messianic bloc with a fig leaf from two senior [IDF officers]," he said, referring to Gantz and his political partner Gabi Ashkenazi, both former army chiefs.
Liberman added that his party would be part of the "substantive opposition."