A senior Shas official attacked Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein following his statement, saying: "What Minister (Yoav) Ben-Tzur did for reservists during the war, Edelstein hasn't done in the past two years." He said that "Edelstein cannot rewrite history with a press statement, the walls in Khan Younis speak for themselves. He has not achieved a single accomplishment during his entire tenure as Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman for reservists and he's running a false campaign on their backs to attack the ultra-Orthodox sector."