"Bezalel, damn it, look at the facts," he had tweeted before getting into the shower. It's no coincidence they wrote in the newspaper that Yair Lapid, the No. 2 in Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan, is the only person in the party with a killer instinct.

The shower didn't take his mind off the argument. "And another thing, Smotrich. Israel has to be a state of all its citizens."

Boom. Smotrich quickly replied: "Thank you, Yair, for finally putting it out there." And Abba Eban's protégé, new Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz, hastened to join in: "A seriously outrageous anti-Semitic remark ... the slogan of the enemy." Help.

Now the candidate for prime minister had to dry himself off and do some damage control. "Somebody really misunderstood what he was reading," Lapid tweeted. "I've been totally against a state of all its citizens all my life. Israel is a Jewish and democratic state, and that's how it will remain. What I wrote referred to LGBT rights."