Knesset member David Bitan attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against the backdrop of the upcoming Likud primaries and said in an interview with Ynet Studio that "if there wasn't a democratic system - he wouldn't have entered Likud. He was elected through the democratic system. You can't benefit from it and not want it when it doesn't suit you." Later, he explained Eisenkot's rise in the polls this way: "Eisenkot succeeds in concealing the fact that he is decidedly left-wing. He's both a bereaved family and Moroccan - and that gives him a very interesting advantage in these elections."