Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich said at Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth's 'People of the State' conference that "the strategy should be joining hands together, going to convince the people of Israel - how critical the elections are for the future of the State of Israel. Itamar regrettably chose a different campaign. His entire campaign is about how he is taking mandates from Netanyahu and from me. In my view, completely unnecessary." Smotrich responded to the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants a government with Gadi Eisenkot without Jewish Power: "Netanyahu said again and again that he is committed to the national camp parties."