Blue and White chairman referred at the beginning of his faction meeting to the process of dismissing Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein, saying: "I suggest that every Likud MK do one thing before voting for Edelstein's dismissal: go to any combat unit they want, look the soldiers in the eyes and tell them that this is what they are going to do." According to him, "It is not Yuli Edelstein who is being sacrificed on the altar of coalition preservation – it is Israel's security that has been abandoned for almost two years regarding the draft issue."