Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said at an open conference for Omar residents that "a Palestinian state is emerging in the Negev. I am saying clearly: if we don't act, we will wake up to October 7 in the Negev settlements." Regarding ultra-Orthodox conscription, Bennett said: "In the last two years, we've reached an abnormal situation and there is one thing that needs to be done - not to legislate any law, there is an existing law and it is the Security Service Law! Only if we don't cancel the law and leave it as it is, everyone will receive draft orders."