Likud responded to the uproar surrounding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks, in which he spoke out against the arrest of ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers and said it was "unacceptable." "Another fake news storm. Netanyahu has been saying all along, and said it directly to the ultra-Orthodox public in an interview: The ultra-Orthodox must enlist. Whoever doesn't study Torah will go to the army, and whoever says we'll die rather than enlist will go to prison. While we will draft 23,000 ultra-Orthodox in three years, the left-wing bloc brought a law that would draft only 5,000. Behind closed doors they offer the ultra-Orthodox a full exemption on condition that they topple Netanyahu."