Opposition leader Yair Lapid addressed the process of removing Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chair Yuli Edelstein from his position at the beginning of his faction meeting, confirming ynet's exclusive report. "I am announcing from here to the Prime Minister - if Yuli Edelstein is removed from his position as chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee - opposition members serving on the committee will resign," he said. He added: "Let every Hebrew mother know that Benjamin Netanyahu is selling her children to the ultra-Orthodox, the security of all of us and the very idea of equality before the law."