Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Friday that Israel's future is in danger, commenting on the withdrawal of one of his government's partners from parliament (the Knesset).
The current government is making efforts with a member of the left-wing Meretz party, a partner in the government, Ghida Rinawi Zoabi, to persuade her to reverse her withdrawal from the Knesset.
Zoabi announced her withdrawal from Parliament, and thus from the ruling coalition, which made the coalition only 59 votes and turned into a minority.
Bennett said, in a statement posted on his Twitter account, "Being responsible for forming a rescue government was a difficult choice, but the country's future is in danger, and we must fight to preserve the unity of our people, because we have no other country."
He claimed that the current government "has succeeded in several areas, including confronting the Corona virus, unemployment, violence, and government paralysis."
He said his government "has boosted the economy over the past year to 8% growth, and the number of murders in the Arab community has decreased by 30%."
"We brought to the residents of the Gaza border and Sderot the longest period of calm in years, and we passed the general budget of the State of Israel," he said.
The Israeli "Likud" party had said that it would present a bill to the Knesset on Wednesday to dissolve it and hold early elections.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid wrote in a Facebook post, "We've been eulogies 5 times a day, for the private broadcast, and we're back. Now these same people tell you it's over. It's not over yet, we're here."
He also said, "This government is the right thing for the state and people of Israel. We have no intention of surrendering or abandoning it. We have no intention of giving (opposition leader Benjamin) Netanyahu and (right-wing lawmaker Itamar) Ben Gvir a chance to destroy the country."