Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri told his party's newspaper that he would not wait more than "a week or two" for the draft law to be approved, and claimed that he had already refused to advance another law in protest. "They have already contacted me, but I told them that as long as the issue of yeshiva students is not regulated, we will not move forward." Deri added that "as long as there is no proactive action by the state to arrest yeshiva students, we will continue to be part of the government. But as soon as there is an arrest of a young man who is sitting in a yeshiva or has arrived at his home, that is a red line. We cannot continue to be part of such a government."