Bennett to Netanyahu: What about Qatar?

"Iran is working to renew the nuclear threat. The only way to permanently remove this existential threat is by toppling the ayatollahs' regime," Netanyahu said. "In the near future we will face international pressure to accept a nuclear Iran and the continued existence of the regime of terror that seeks to destroy us. We will also absorb pressure to retreat from our significant achievements and from our great achievement in the security buffer zones."

"Facing these threats, we must do one thing in this house: put aside every other consideration and establish a national unity government. Only it can deal with such enormous challenges," he continued. "And to those who are thinking of forming a government that includes or depends on terror supporters who hate Israel: I ask you, are you willing to be dependent on those whose goal is the destruction of the Jewish state? In their hands you place the fate of our state? Them you prefer over Zionist parties that represent a huge Zionist public?"

Netanyahu went on to claim that "there are those in this house who for some reason think there is a big difference between the supposedly 'moderate' Ra'am and the 'extremist' Joint List. The only difference is that they are divided on the question of which state will arise here on the ruins of the Jewish state. Whether an Islamic state in the style of the Muslim Brotherhood like Hamas in Gaza, or a Palestinian nationalist state in the style of Fatah. That's the whole difference. But on one thing they agree: Israel, as a Jewish state, has no right to exist!"

Shortly afterward, another uproar erupted when Yachad chairman Naftali Bennett interrupted Netanyahu's speech after the Prime Minister said that "we need to investigate foreign influence in the elections." In response, Bennett asked: "What about investigating October 7th? What about your Qatari advisers? Is that okay? Why don't you declare Qatar an enemy?"

Following this, Otzma Yehudit MKs stood and defended Netanyahu. The Prime Minister's wife, Sara Netanyahu, also shouted at Bennett: "What about the servants' alliance?"

Netanyahu to the chareidi parties: "They'll promise you mountains"

At the end of his speech, Netanyahu addressed the chareidi parties: "I say to our chareidi brothers, even a narrow government must not be formed. Because I know what is at stake, not only the enormous security challenge, but also the great internal challenge of preserving the Jewish identity of the State of Israel."

"You represent a large public that is concerned for the Jewish identity of the state, an Israel-loving public that settles in the heart of Eretz Yisrael," he claimed. "We, the faith bloc, have preserved and will continue to preserve the holy places of Israel --- and you know very well who your partners in a narrow government will be and what their attitude is toward the holy places of Israel."

"Our shared mission is to complete the regulation of the status of Torah scholars and the draft law with broad agreement, in cooperation with your spiritual leadership," he concluded. "I don't need to tell you, you know very well. they will promise you mountains. But a minute after a left-wing government is formed, G-d forbid, all those promises will evaporate."