The Likud faction arrived at the President's Residence as part of consultations on forming the government. Education Minister Yoav Kisch said that Likud 'does not boycott anyone. Stop the boycott of the right - you are not allowed to turn off the light on the Jewish state. A broad national government will include all Zionist parties that want to join.' He later addressed the Ra'am affair and the election bribery case from Qatar, saying: 'I think that foreign money from countries that failed to prevail on the battlefield are trying to prevail from within.' Herzog responded: 'Sometimes things start big and end with a faint voice of weakness.'

