Foreign Minister and Alternative Prime Minister Yair Lapid addressed Monday the large number of ministers in the current government and stressed that a “bad political necessity” has led to that reality.

“That is not what we wanted, that is not what I hoped for, but it allows for a government that will be able to pass a budget,” he explained.

Lapid’s political campaign has stipulated the need to cut down the number of ministers in Israel, which has significantly grown in the last decade.

Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at the coalition during a Likud faction meeting, saying “instead of providing jobs for [Members of Knesset] Yair Golan and Eli Avidar and instead of bringing a Norwegian flood into the Knesset, the government needs to bring the third vaccine now. It is an unbelievable scandal of the government.”