Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett responded to the ynet and "Yedioth Ahronoth" investigation into WhatsApp messages from the Prime Minister's Office in the "Qatar-gate" affair, stating that "the new protocols put an end to the saga: senior officials from Netanyahu's office betrayed the State of Israel and its security during wartime, and Netanyahu knowingly does nothing about it." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's advisor, Yonatan Urich, who is a suspect in the case, responded: "You are a liar. You lied to your voters. You committed the biggest election fraud in the history of the state."