Culture Minister Miki Zohar (Likud) criticized the merger between Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's party, saying, "That's what happens when there's no ideology and no agenda. Not right and not left. Bennett supposedly right-wing and Lapid supposedly left-wing - and together they're trying to pass the electoral threshold. I'm proud to be in Likud, the most democratic party in Israel with a clear and sharp national path."