Opposition leader Yair Lapid addressed the expected appointment of MK Boaz Bismuth as chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the beginning of his faction meeting, saying: "The coalition is removing the chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the middle of a war to advance a draft evasion law." According to him, "Bismuth is being appointed because the ultra-Orthodox are appointing him. I know everyone in the opposition will attack him. I want to say something different. We disagree on many things, but he is a Zionist who is raising his children here." He added that "Boaz knows that if he passes a draft evasion law, it would be a betrayal of all the values he believed in."