"It could be that there's someone who for personal reasons wants to generate a crisis and lead the state to elections," he suggested, adding that "in the end, it's all up to one person who has to decide whether he wants elections or not, and that's the Prime Minister."

Yaakov Margi of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party said that the coalition partners are very close to reaching a compromised agreement, adding that "the feeling is that the Prime Minister has fallen in love with this fake crisis."

"Once the heads of the ultra-Orthodox parties announced they would agree to a solution, the draft crisis was solved. All the rest is a fake crisis," he wrote on Twitter.

Recent opinion polls showed that Netanyahu still enjoys strong public support and his Likud party could win the most seats in the upcoming elections, despite the corruption investigations.

The police have already recommended indicting Netanyahu in two bribery cases, but the final decision on any indictment would be made by the attorney general.

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