„Yesh Atid and I are not against a nationality law, but not this version of the Nationality Law,“ Lapid said at Tel Aviv University. „MK Ze‘ev Elkin‘s Nationality Law put the Jewish nature of the state before its democratic nature. (First prime minister David) Ben-Gurion would not have approved this law, neither would Menachem Begin or Ze‘ev Jabotinsky. This is an anti-democratic law.“